Wings Over Scotland

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• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Apologies to Mr. Ellis for misplaced posting intended for Prof Baird” Dec 31, 02:40
• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Alf Baird says: 30 December, 2025 at 2:49 pm “a language the majority don’t understand” ======= Alf, if you have…” Dec 31, 02:36
• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Alf Baird says: 30 December, 2025 at 2:49 pm “a language the majority don’t understand” ======= Alf, if you have…” Dec 31, 02:33
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “TURABDIN, Is it still a kings shilling? Perhaps its turned-into the-faith of all coinage,” Dec 30, 23:03
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “Never be shamed into avoidance of you’re mother tongue and language, Many times we have been punished because we did,…” Dec 30, 22:56
• Mark Beggan on The Curious Fringes: ““Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody…” Dec 30, 22:08
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““Scots is important enough to be taught in schools.” Indeed, Sam. I think the Scots leid is a fantastic language…” Dec 30, 21:52
• Aidan on The Curious Fringes: “I should add the “1.5m identified as Scots speakers . . “” Dec 30, 21:30
• Aidan on The Curious Fringes: “@Sam perhaps there is some nuance that I’m missing but “Scots identified as Scots speakers and another 267,000 understood it”.…” Dec 30, 20:54
• Mark Beggan on The Curious Fringes: “‘I pulled into Nazareth just about half past dead. I just need to find a place where I can lay…” Dec 30, 20:48
• sam on The Curious Fringes: “It is a minority of Scots who speak Scots. Even so the 2011 Census tells us that 1.5 million Scots…” Dec 30, 20:10
• TURABDIN on The Curious Fringes: “British politics is overwhelmingly English, has the party of Scotland even noticed? Taken the king’s shilling maybe?” Dec 30, 18:30
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““May 2026 bring us closer to our shared view, however different our paths.” Agreed… a noble sentiment and one fitting…” Dec 30, 17:41
• Andy Ellis on The Curious Fringes: “@ Northcode Season’s greetings to you, to yours and even the other usual suspects. May 2026 bring us closer to…” Dec 30, 17:22
• Chris Downie on The Curious Fringes: “I saw various posts on the old FB live feed today showing Swinney proclaiming in a recent interview that he…” Dec 30, 17:22
• Rob on The Curious Fringes: “The fact that the SNP have been the government for some years because a majority voted for them does not…” Dec 30, 17:10
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: “I thank you for your kind sentiments, Mr Ellis. I look forward to the day, as do you, when we…” Dec 30, 17:06
• 100%Yes on The Curious Fringes: “The national, the writers who write for the RAG the two dave’s, Saorsa, Gordon Ross, Scot goes pop and others…” Dec 30, 16:40
• Alf Baird on The Curious Fringes: ““So why are they against independence?” Postcolonial theory (Fanon) tells us that a dominant national party ‘lacks courage at the…” Dec 30, 16:24
• 100%Yes on The Curious Fringes: “Judas betrayed Jesus and was given money for doing it, Judas said I didn’t do it for the money, but…” Dec 30, 16:00
• Andy Ellis on The Curious Fringes: “@ Northcode 3.31 pm That’s ye telt aff by Professor Baird nou, Ellis, ye linguicidal maniacque ye. The phrase “like…” Dec 30, 15:50
• Andy Ellis on The Curious Fringes: “@ Northcode 1.03 & 1.43 pm Surely this is your area of expertise, Andy Inglis, is it not? Attempting to…” Dec 30, 15:48
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: “That’s ye telt aff by Professor Baird nou, Ellis, ye linguicidal maniacque ye. Witches kin mak folkes tae becom phrenticque…” Dec 30, 15:31
• factchecker on The Curious Fringes: “It doesn’t seem logical that the SNP should support a continuation of the status quo. They have had full access…” Dec 30, 15:01
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “It just needs a bit of analyses regards Scotlands actual position, Scotlands 1707 treaty is with the parliament of England,…” Dec 30, 14:58
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““The smart mind in Scotland says…” Aye, James, but the Scots have been fooled across many generations these past three…” Dec 30, 14:52
• Alf Baird on The Curious Fringes: ““a language the majority don’t understand” Despite being prevented by our colonial educators from learning Scots, it remains that oor…” Dec 30, 14:49
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “North Code, And you know what is Strange about the Colonised mind in Scotland. It accepts when the Great Britain…” Dec 30, 14:25
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““The mind of the coloniser. Thinking England’s borders end at the top of Scotland.” Aye, James. And some of them…” Dec 30, 14:10
• Saffron Robe on The Curious Fringes: “James Cheyne says: “So you vote in Scotland to maintain the pretence and fool ourselves we have democracy, all the…” Dec 30, 13:59