Last Call 716
Posted on
May 13, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The meaning of power 519
Posted on
May 09, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Spilt black milk 393
Posted on
May 07, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At midnight all the agents 461
Posted on
May 06, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On Saturday, for the second year in a row, there was a huge and joyous independence march through the centre of Glasgow, which passed off with no incidents, arrests or disturbances despite attempted provocation from a small handful of abusive Unionist bigots led by a Holocaust denier.
Most of the Sunday papers carried largely neutral and factual reports of the event, of varying quality and size, with only a comical piece of hysteria in the extremist Scottish Daily Express standing out as objectionable for its ridiculous headline (and even then the actual copy barely mentioned the march at all).
But also for the second year in a row, one paper – or to be more specific, one man – took a rather more negative slant.
David Mundell is a liar 372
Posted on
May 04, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This was the Secretary of State for Scotland on the BBC’s coverage of the Scottish Conservative conference earlier today.
The broadcaster’s political editor Brian Taylor gets uncharacteristically indignant with Mundell’s response, and well he might.
The secret collectors 36
Posted on
May 04, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall our ongoing enquiry with the Scottish Conservatives and the Information Commissioner’s Office about what may or may not constitute a lawful and legitimate “petition”, if one is conducted over a period of several years (during which signatories may changes their opinions, or die) and is never delivered to its supposed recipient, but merely used as a data-harvesting device.
And excitingly there’s been a new twist.
The slow learners 189
Posted on
May 03, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Poor old Gary Smith and the rest of the super-unionist GMB. We wonder how many times the UK government has to kick them up the arse before they stop bending over.
We’re pretty sure we’ll need to take our shoes and socks off to count, though.
The restoration of faith 796
Posted on
April 29, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We should have known all along, really.
The woman who said she didn’t want to be leader but did, then said she wouldn’t quit as leader but did, then said she had no intention of quitting politics altogether, just did.
Or did she?
The soft block 296
Posted on
April 28, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC came in for a spot of criticism this week when its new BBC Scotland channel opted to show some snooker instead of Nicola Sturgeon’s major speech about a new independence referendum. But then things started to get weird.
An alert Wings reader noted that they hadn’t been able to locate any coverage by the state broadcaster of the SNP’s annual conference this weekend either, even though they send live cameras to just about any other party’s gatherings even if they amount to three people in a phone box (hi, Scottish Lib Dems).
The plot swiftly thickened.
