Because, for startlingly obvious reasons, even the SNP hasn’t had the brass neck to do a general fundraiser for this election, with the police’s inquiries still going on into the whereabouts of the cash from their last big appeals.
But in fact the party has managed to wring over £100,000 from the most gullible of its remaining supporters in the days since the election was announced. It’s just been a bit more subtle about it.
Last week’s controversy around the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre put the spotlight on the need for single-sex services to protect vulnerable women, but it’s very far from the only example of how Scottish women are being let down in this regard by both the Scottish Government and civic organisations.
The homelessness system in Scotland has collapsed. Emergency accommodation is dangerous, sub-standard, and overcrowded. There has been an epidemic of deaths in hotels and B&Bs in recent years.
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
We watched Question Time last night for the first time in about nine years, and this comment from SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn raised an eyebrow.
Because we couldn’t remember ANY times that Flynn had publicly expressed any problems with the Scottish Greens during their governing alliance.
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Actually James, it’s you trying to post in “scotch”, by which I mean the incoherent meaningless ramblings of someone who…” Aug 25, 11:21
Captain Caveman on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “”Aw, Adrian’s trying to post in Scotch” Wait, what? “Adrian” (I think you meant Aidan) is trying to post in…” Aug 25, 11:06
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “That’s absolutely right Sam, and one of Joel Barnett’s main criticism is that Scotland’s advantage was essentially baked into the…” Aug 25, 11:06
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “I’m gonna refute that any plausible Scot ever refers to himself as Scotch. And I’m gonna question why you slipped…” Aug 25, 10:55
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Caithness Business Index “It is based on outdated population data The population share used in the formula is updated only…” Aug 25, 10:53
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Scotland’s energy prices are certainly the highest among all the energy-rich nations” But then you have to define “nation”, Alf.…” Aug 25, 10:50
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett thought his Formula was “grossly unfair” due to inequalities in public spending. He thought it would be a temporary…” Aug 25, 10:48
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aw, Adrian’s trying to post in Scotch. Bless. Give it up. petal.” Aug 25, 10:40
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “We need a unionist troll, quick; post something disingenuous to refute that “100%Yes” post above, in case any Scotch get…” Aug 25, 10:36
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Scotland hasn’t got the highest energy prices in the world” We’ve been though this before Hatey yet you still appear…” Aug 25, 10:31
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Good post, Jay. Now, inch yourself to the very edge of the precipice, look boldly over the vertiginous, sheer drop,…” Aug 25, 10:28
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett Formula according to Caithness Business Index 1. It ignores Scotland’s needs The formula does not consider:Rurality; Island geography; Higher…” Aug 25, 10:26
Hatey McHateface on Before Action: “Thought you were already done. But I was wrong – you’re back again. Seemingly you want a Block function alongside…” Aug 25, 10:20
Jay on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Effijy, you suggest that the SNP people making the fish and chips video have played into Unionist hands but you…” Aug 25, 10:06
WhoRattledYourCage on Before Action: “Of course I knew you would reply. You reply to EVERYTHING, morning, noon, and nightmare. Everything-replier is your shut-in self-appointed…” Aug 25, 09:47
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “I was going to say Hatey – for the land of make believe this is incredibly unoptimistic. If Scotland had…” Aug 25, 08:44
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Meantime, out in the real world: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-against-datacentre-boom All that “free” leccy. All that water. All that empty space. Looks like…” Aug 25, 08:28
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “That’s some inflation, Alf. I can mind when it was only £150 billion PA. How long before it hits the…” Aug 25, 08:21
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “UKGov also turns a blind eye while random boys, lacking all certificates of authenticity, ponce aboot in tartan and kilts.…” Aug 25, 08:13
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Non-viable options also exist. G@za and Ir@n are popular role models for some people. It would be up to the…” Aug 25, 08:08
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “We’re not sitting on centuries worth of oil and gas. Another easily verifiable fact (excluding onshore shale gas, for which…” Aug 25, 07:59
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Lets be honest Scotland gives more than it gets, fact.” Yes, ‘let them eat cake’ is aye the imperialist advice…” Aug 25, 07:57
diabloandco on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “All the patronising guff we have had to endure ,all the propaganda and downright lies , all the dumbing down…” Aug 25, 07:55
ScottieDog on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Did she mention that the U.K. government steals our tatties?” Aug 25, 07:54
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Alex should have stated the UK debt will remain with the UK but he didn’t” So what are we to…” Aug 25, 07:45
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aye it’s like “you’re tae fucking thick to understand numbers, but this fish is bigger than that fish ya daft…” Aug 25, 07:45
Gerry parker on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “And the other side of the Barnett formula, if spending on the NHS or Education in England decreases, then the…” Aug 25, 07:41
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The U.K. might face some difficulties in having to cut spending to accommodate the debt repayments on a smaller economy,…” Aug 25, 07:26
Arthur Martin on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The state of that! What a patronising pile of guff! I’m more disappointed by the lazy attitude shown by the…” Aug 25, 07:21
