Wings Over Scotland marked its ninth birthday earlier this month. To be honest, we totally forgot about it until someone reminded us. Normally we mark the anniversary with a small reflection and taking of stock over how things are going, but this year we couldn’t be bothered – we’d already mentioned readership stats in August.
But today in The National we found out that we were apparently dead.
But reports of our demise have been, as the saying goes, somewhat exaggerated.
The Scottish Parliament will today almost certainly pass a dangerously misleading and inaccurate motion to mark “Transgender Day Of Remembrance”, and in doing so will join countless other institutions across the UK captured by trans ideology to the great detriment of women’s rights, freedom of speech and general sanity.
So we thought we’d mark it with a very short fact check.
One of the dumber things we see regularly posted on social media is that Yes voices should stop criticising the First Minister because her leadership is the only reason Yes is now consistently ahead in the polls and we would have no chance of winning a new referendum with someone else in charge.
This is obviously nonsense, because Nicola Sturgeon was SNP leader and FM for five years in which support moved barely a single millimetre, until COVID-19 came along. Our current lead is due entirely to a tiny invisible virus and a giant Etonian buffoon.
Some years ago, a friend of mine was on a car journey along the motorway, with their brother driving. The night before there had been a storm and high winds. The bad weather had continued into the morning before easing, but the wind was still strong.
They were chatting in the car and as they continued to chat, my friend noticed that further along, a motorway stanchion that holds the lights had fallen across their path. It was blocking two of the three lanes, including the one that they were on. Despite that, they continued to chat as if it wasn’t there.
The obstacle drew nearer and nearer. Finally my friend said to his brother, “Aren’t you going to drive round that light?” His brother swerved and made it into the unblocked lane with feet to spare.
I asked my friend why they hadn’t swerved sooner. “Neither of us could believe it was there”, he said.
We were going to write a post about today’s Sunday National front page lead story, but it would just have been an angry rant, so instead we’ll let our readers make their own judgements on how convinced they are by this bloviating guff:
On 18 September 2014, Scotland had control over its future. Scots could choose their own path, or continue to have decisions imposed upon them. Those of us supporting the former came close but not close enough. As a result, Scotland exited the EU against its will, is once more under the heel of a right-wing government and now finds its Parliament under attack from London.
Yet the dream has never died and demands for the right to choose our own destiny are growing. Scotland needs to be in the position it held on 18 September 2014, when power lay with its people. It’s their democratic right to decide, so why would you ever cede that power?
Young Lochinvar on Pick Your Poison: “Geri Strangely fitting.. The “gayest wee Parliament” in the world will transition to be the “queerest wee Parliament in the…” May 9, 01:58
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “I hope Cowardly John draws the short straw & has to inform them it’s the LAW that they use the…” May 9, 01:43
Young Lochinvar on Pick Your Poison: “Sarah But, but.. Anne Thewliss burst into tears! Again.. And anyway, back in the day they used to say the…” May 9, 01:33
Cynicus on Pick Your Poison: “Final results for Highlands and Islands: Vic Currie (Reform) Ariane Burgess (Scottish Greens) Tim Eagle (Conservative) Max Barrowman (Reform) Morven-May…” May 9, 01:28
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “Can they not count? Why do they always have issues? According to X reporter – there were four counts at…” May 9, 01:27
GM on Pick Your Poison: “Interesting question. We’ll see how the Holyrood ladies deal with it.” May 9, 01:24
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “It gets worse Lorna… Allegedly, one has a crowd funder cause they don’t have a work visa (WTF?) & the…” May 9, 01:04
Confused on Pick Your Poison: “I see some foreign p00f on a student visa has gotten elected to the Scots parliament; I wonder how he…” May 9, 00:56
Cynicus on Pick Your Poison: ““ Is no-one else annoyed and embarrassed that 26 hrs after the polls closed the final results still haven’t been…” May 9, 00:53
Young Lochinvar on Pick Your Poison: “Oh well.. Hey ho! That’s that then for some more years.. “Honest” John has got what he “really” wanted all…” May 9, 00:53
L.U.T.B on Pick Your Poison: “Christ on a bike! Is no-one else annoyed and embarrassed that 26 hrs after the polls closed the final results…” May 9, 00:27
Big Jock on Pick Your Poison: “I don’t think any of us can take another 5 years of this sand dancing. It is like trying to…” May 9, 00:13
GM on Pick Your Poison: “I hope the lady takes the Scot gov. to the cleaners. It is the only thing that will shift them,…” May 9, 00:08
Cynicus on Pick Your Poison: “sarah says: 8 May, 2026 at 10:22 pm “This is now officially the worst set of MSPs we have been…” May 9, 00:02
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Pick Your Poison: “EX-GOVERNOR: ‘STOP HOUSING MEN IN SCOTLAND’S PRISONS FOR WOMEN’ All men who identify as women should be immediately removed from…” May 8, 23:41
Lorncal on Pick Your Poison: “The thing is, Aidan/Caveman, everything has to be tried before you go for broke. It’s like the wee boy or…” May 8, 23:09
GM on Pick Your Poison: “A court case might stir things up a bit. I suspect Scotland (does it still exist at Holyrood?) is too…” May 8, 23:06
Lorncal on Pick Your Poison: “Every silver lining has a cloud, Geri, and the Greens’ cloud – hopefully as black as the Earl of Hell’s…” May 8, 22:39
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Pick Your Poison: “Beannachd leat, a Sheumais. Piseach ort! (Blessings/ Good-bye, James. All the best!)” May 8, 22:33
Lorncal on Pick Your Poison: “I know. It’s the same everywhere. It will be around three-quarters to a million votes lost to Unionists and the…” May 8, 22:29
sarah on Pick Your Poison: “This is now officially the worst set of MSPs we have been cursed with. Is there a single one with…” May 8, 22:22
James Che on Pick Your Poison: “I will say goodby to everyone on wings over Scotland, and to Rev Stu for many years providing information, stats,…” May 8, 22:14
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “SNP wasted regional votes in my area around 88,000. Seats 0 Reform – around 59,000. Seats 3. #@#@#” May 8, 21:50
robertkknight on Pick Your Poison: ““Izzie says: 8 May, 2026 at 5:43 pm Well it looks like we (SNP) have won. But Im not hete…” May 8, 21:46
red sunset on Pick Your Poison: “A good number of constituencies below 50% turnout, typical seems to be around 55% turnout” May 8, 21:14
SilentMajority on Pick Your Poison: “What an absolute shower of embarrassments we now have ‘in power’…” May 8, 21:09
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “53.2% https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2026/scotland/results” May 8, 21:07
Geri on Pick Your Poison: ““Two trans MSPs elected to Holyrood” Aye, give us everything why don’t you? Iris Duane becomes the second openly trans…” May 8, 21:04
