The Scottish Government have just launched yet another nanny-state “healthy eating” intervention, and to be honest, readers, the cheap-shot open goals just queued up.
Our first instinct was to do a simple picture gallery of some of the insatiable pie-hounds squeezing their expenses-fed backsides onto the groaning, creaking benches and chairs of the Holyrood and Westminster parliaments, such as Kirsten “Elbows” Oswald (pictured above, slumped back under the sheer weight of her neck) – so known to other MPs because you get between her and a buffet at grave peril to your ribcage.
(And no, we’re not telling you which ones told us that.)
More than three months have passed since Alex Salmond launched a lawsuit against the Scottish Government for its grotesquely botched handling of false allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
With Scottish politics currently in a completely moribund state, as the party of government disintegrates shambolically and the main opposition party keeps its mouth shut and its head down in an attempt to not destroy its newfound and extremely fragile status as a credible alternative, one might imagine that the political media would be desperate for the case to get under way and provide them with some juicy content.
So it’s slightly surprising that none of them has noticed the latest development.
We’re reluctant to even mention the farcical, embarrassing goings-on in the House Of Commons last night, but the very short version is that the SNP somehow contrived to save Keir Starmer from an embarrassing mass rebellion of Labour MPs.
And in so far as anyone cared about them at all, the people of Gaza were the losers.
As the long-running police probe into SNP finances continues, Wings received some slightly surprising news today in the form of an FOI response.
Based on reports from various trustworthy sources we’d expected to hear that the police side of the investigation was by this point winding down somewhat, with most matters of fact already established, detectives assigned to other duties and the ball now largely in the court of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
Because we’re still more than two years out from the next Holyrood election, and it’s really hard to see how it’s going to pan out. So let’s throw some figures around.
This is so freaky I had to check they weren’t quoting each other. It’s like a game show.
Just a couple of nice well-brought-up Hutchesons’ Grammar boys in smart suits, there, thinking the same, speaking the same, saying the same, and angling for the same job. (Which one of them now has, and the other may have soon.)
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s definitely Anas Sarwar’s hapless Scottish Labour.
Honestly, this stuff is comedy gold. But in a winner-takes-all dumb-off with Humza Yousaf’s SNP, it’s way too close to call.
One year ago today, Nicola Sturgeon suddenly resigned as First Minister. And what a spectacular 12 months it’s been for the Yes movement since her departure.
Ex President Xiden on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Which prime minister closed the most coal mines in the U.K. and was the first to stop school children receiving…” Aug 13, 07:28
James Barr Gardner on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Nicola Sturgeon’s interview with Julie Etchingham is just as big a car crash as Prince Andrew’s interview with Emily Maitlis.” Aug 13, 03:40
aLurker on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “” JOANNA CHERRY: She’s promised to tell the unadorned truth… but will Nicola Sturgeon’s book answer any of the embarrassing…” Aug 13, 01:31
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Can I also just add, the “re-elect now” 2016 election image in the article: I certainly don’t remember/ recall such…” Aug 12, 23:59
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Thought provoking post Sally. I think you are right to be cynical as she will be angling on most men…” Aug 12, 23:44
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Big Jock Well spotted! All political careers end in failure. She’s just unwittingly lit the blue touch paper to hers;…” Aug 12, 23:38
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Perhaps I’m being lazy not searching but how many pages are there in this book? Lordy Rev; this looks to…” Aug 12, 23:23
Sally Hughes on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “There’s a huge amount of financial reward, from big pharma, re the gender/woke issue. Perhaps, one day, the evidence of…” Aug 12, 23:17
Big Jock on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “She has gone full lesbian now. Gone are the sharp business suits and thin figure. Replaced by men’s jeans and…” Aug 12, 23:15
robertkknight on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I managed to keep a straight face for about 5 seconds there, Mr Scott. My apologies… I’d hoped to string…” Aug 12, 22:51
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “She kept us all safe through the Covid Years, when the evil BoJo would have killed all of us Scots,…” Aug 12, 22:51
Confused on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “yeah, but you like it, don’t you and you want the rest of us to like it too” Aug 12, 22:47
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Perhaps more true to the actual, lived reality: Frankly, My Queer, I Very Much Do Give A Damn. Isn’t that…” Aug 12, 22:38
Alan Scott on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Nicola was a great leader. I can’t understand all of this carping and criticism.” Aug 12, 22:32
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““you must eat a lot of shit then” Course I do, Confused, I’m Scottish. Don’t you live in Pilton, or…” Aug 12, 22:31
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@ Marie says: 12 August, 2025 at 8:23 pm “No one makes up more Shyte than you Hasbara” Great post,…” Aug 12, 22:04
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “You forgot you are what you eat. Is that you confused again, Confused?” Aug 12, 21:29
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@ Lorn says: 12 August, 2025 at 8:10 pm “We all carry the can when we elect spineless sock puppets…” Aug 12, 21:27
robertkknight on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “The publishers missed a couple of words off the title… Nicola Sturgeon FRANKLY, WHO CARES?” Aug 12, 21:21
Tartanpigsy on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““ TURABDIN says: 12 August, 2025 at 6:40 pm EXTRACTED FROM «FRANKLY». The established narrative now, though, is that I…” Aug 12, 21:02
Big Jock on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Why would anyone read the memoirs of a serial liar? You have to cast doubt on every single anecdote you…” Aug 12, 20:44
Confused on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “You forgot about EATING THE ENGLISH – that is my favourite plan. You would have to hang the meat for…” Aug 12, 20:39
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “They all knew it was illegal (and immoral and anti female human rights), Liz. Yet, they pressed on with it…” Aug 12, 20:35
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “The actual truth is that most ‘trans’ offenders are in prison for sex offences and many of them declared themselves…” Aug 12, 20:25
