The 2010s end in a matter of hours, and everyone and their genderfluid dog is writing retrospectives of the 10 years just past. This site, which came into existence in the second year of the decade, has very little interest in following suit – we’ve always been about the future.
But a cursory glance over the shoulder does reveal one immediately striking fact that’s worthy of passing note.
We got blocked by LBC’s James O’Brien today for very gently and politely challenging him over this tweet:
And while this site most assuredly carries no torch for Jeremy Corbyn, it’s a reframing of reality that merits a bit of investigation for what it tells us about the UK media.
It sucks being right all the time. But at least now, as we asked for, the lie is over. So that’s a good thing. We suppose we should celebrate, but we don’t feel much like it.
Yesterday we posted an article noting that hardline trans-rights extremists, among whose number we must regretfully count the Scottish Government, were engaged in a determined and alarmingly successful attempt to abolish the scientific basis for reality.
We did not expect such a striking illustration of that assertion to arrive this soon.
It really is quite the remarkable feat of timing that concerted mass reporting by SNP activists managed to get the Wings Twitter account (and several others) closed down this week of all weeks, isn’t it?
They’re also trying to get my personal account banned, and reporting scores of others, in an open attempt to purge any sort of dissenting opinions from public dialogue at exactly the same time as opening a “consultation” whose outcome has already been predetermined, and which in another remarkable coincidence is due to close just a few days into the four weeks scheduled for the Alex Salmond trial.
As some alert readers have already noticed, our Twitter account has been suspended again, three and a bit years after the last time. The ban is supposedly permanent. To save a lot of repeated explaining in emails and direct messages, a brief record of the pertinent events follows.
Last night a bomb went off in British politics. It utterly destroyed the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, and may have fatally weakened the foundations of the UK itself – Northern Ireland now has a majority of nationalist MPs for the first time in its history, and over 80% of Scottish seats went to the SNP.
As this site had been warning for months and months, the patience of English and Welsh voters with Parliament refusing to implement their 2016 vote to leave the EU finally snapped. Some wildly improbable Labour seats – including the constituency of Grenfell Tower, for God’s sake – went to the Tories, especially in Wales and the north of England, in order to “Get Brexit Done”.
The Lib Dems, the only UK party with a clear (okay, fairly clear) Remain position and with a minimum of 48% of the electorate to target, somehow contrived to LOSE seats, not only compared to their 21-MP starting point (bolstered by defectors since the last election) but compared to the 12 MPs they won in the 2017 election itself.
And the SNP? Well, the SNP failed too.
Because having expressly told voters that the election wasn’t about independence but about stopping Brexit, they won 13 more seats, but seats which have zero leverage at Westminster and will be able to do absolutely nothing to prevent the UK leaving the EU seven weeks from now. For all Scotland’s renewed “STOP BREXIT” message, Brexit will not be stopped. The UK, and Scotland with it, will depart next month.
We can’t help but note at this point that if the party had taken our advice and done a deal with the Tories in October to let Brexit pass in return for Section 30 powers, we’d now have an indyref in the bag (which we’d win) and as a parting gift to our southern kin we’d also have saved England from having a thumping great Tory majority for the foreseeable future.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “GOVT DITCHES NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS (England & Wales) A Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)…” Mar 12, 00:47
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “J The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂” Mar 12, 00:34
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi In November 2025, the…” Mar 12, 00:33
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Hubris. It gets the empire every time. Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil…” Mar 11, 22:17
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.” Mar 11, 22:09
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “” It is historically indisputable…” I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’. What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others…” Mar 11, 21:52
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers” You may find of interest the…” Mar 11, 21:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable…” Mar 11, 21:17
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl? The City of…” Mar 11, 21:03
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read…” Mar 11, 20:10
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards. They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their…” Mar 11, 19:59
agentx on Looking up at the stars: ““Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, abused Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August last year…” Mar 11, 19:33
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “I’ve been perusing todays unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing) mincin and mingin and mangleezed insults comments and comparing them…” Mar 11, 19:29
James on Looking up at the stars: “Had one of them shit himself? If so, the other yin was Beggan…..” Mar 11, 19:27
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Anyone else see the clip on the news of the old couple racially abusing the Philipino woman in a park…” Mar 11, 19:13
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “An observation: Someone who would destroy the world economy for no apparent reason is not an evil genius…. just evil,…” Mar 11, 19:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wheesht, factchecker. Our illustrious forebears were only following orders. Some big, bad, Inglis barsturts made them do it. And then…” Mar 11, 18:22
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: “Our resident professor tells us that ” a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force…” Mar 11, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wahey, James is up! It must have finally healed. But as he’s hunched over it, pumping away, he’s not upright.…” Mar 11, 17:58
David Holden on Looking up at the stars: “Enter the Dragon. The spot of bother in the gulf will be over soon as Sir Keith has dispatched HMS…” Mar 11, 17:47
James on Looking up at the stars: “The site Prick is in urgent need of a double dose of immodium. They’re spilling out of him without even…” Mar 11, 17:05
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “robertkknight, Thats because all the codgers in the holyrood parliament are a sub division of the parliament of the united…” Mar 11, 17:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “@ Geri says: 11 March, 2026 at 3:54 pm “It’s printing press” “it’s line of credit” “it’s economy” The Mystic…” Mar 11, 16:12
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Oh FFS, Alf. There’s hardly a Scottish family in the land that doesn’t have relatives in the Colonies. Plenty will…” Mar 11, 15:56
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “It’s about to get a whole lot sicker… It’s printing press & it’s line of credit is just about to…” Mar 11, 15:54
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: ““Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools” The main concern of the colonized is or should be focused…” Mar 11, 15:38
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “I believe it is because they are sworn in individually as a member of parliament. Not as a block or…” Mar 11, 14:32
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “I believe we all know that the answer to your query as to, “why, when some MP resigns fro a…” Mar 11, 13:48
