Surgical strike 185
Posted on
July 18, 2020 by
Chris Cairns
Giving up on independence 411
Posted on
July 17, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s hard to express quite what a revolting piece of rank hypocrisy this is.
Behold, ladies and gentlemen and other genders, some pious little twerp whose own comfy seat in the Scottish Parliament was secured entirely by what he calls “cheating”, saying that nobody but him and his mates are allowed to cheat now.
The land of mystery 282
Posted on
July 16, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC website is playing it rather enigmatic this morning.
Does anyone know the name of the place it doesn’t want to say for some reason?
The bitter minds 359
Posted on
July 15, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A concept has recently arisen in Scottish politics for which this site feels at least partly responsible, and which is making the strangest bedfellows of Unionist commentators and SNP ultra-loyalists. It’s summed up very concisely in today’s Times.
Let’s just unpick that extraordinary meltdown for a moment.
There is no opposition 310
Posted on
July 14, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Two opinion polls, just over one Parliamentary term apart:
MAY 2014
JULY 2020
That is not a politically healthy country, readers.
The Beaten Surrender 414
Posted on
July 13, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No comment needed, really.
Sooner or later, you have to stop screaming that anyone pointing out what’s happening is an MI5 plant or a secret Unionist (or in the case of some of the people who replied to Craig Murray yesterday, simply flat-out denying that the First Minister said what she actually said), and either just accept the complete abandonment of the Yes movement by the current SNP leadership or do something about it.
Transforming the question 313
Posted on
July 09, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Huffington Post published a poll today, to the great delight of the likes of Stonewall Scotland, which seemed to fly in the face of every previous one on the idea of gender self-identification, a policy which appears to have been dumped by the UK government but is still very much in favour with the Scottish one.
That the poll had been commissioned by trans uber-fundamentalist website Pink News immediately set off alarm bells, especially as the site had previously asked a similar question, found dramatically different results and swiftly disappeared them.
As ever, Wings went looking for the truth.
Now sometimes offensive 98
Posted on
July 09, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The rapid regression of civilisation continues apace, readers.
Because it ought to be noted that it’s not the concept of homosexuality that’s being deemed offensive there, nor the word itself, but specifically the definition of it.
In other words, a dictionary just said “some people are offended by facts”.
The cat and all the pigeons 752
Posted on
July 06, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our most extra-specially alert readers may have recently noticed the website of some dodgy chancer claiming that a recent opinion poll by Survation showed high support for a pro-independence list party led by Alex Salmond.
Unfortunately, no such poll existed. The site owner blanked every request to back up his assertion with a link to the supposed survey, and it rapidly became clear that it was a totally fabricated piece of attention-seeking which we won’t indulge with a link.
But it seemed worth asking the question for real.
Premature chickens 84
Posted on
July 05, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were looking for something else this afternoon, but accidentally found this:
Just two weeks before the last Holyrood election, widely-respected analysts Weber Shandwick had put together a prediction of how the results would pan out. Just for a bit of fun, let’s compare it to the reality.
Shiny beads and trinkets 205
Posted on
July 05, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even by the intellectual standards of the Scottish media, this is a stupid question:
But just to be helpful, we’ll answer it: by a majority of more than 500 votes is how.
