And the rest of it doesn’t pull many punches either. Let’s hope it’s just the first crack in the dam. The opportunity for the others in the party to find their courage is fast ebbing away, and history will be unmerciful if they don’t seize it.
Just for a change, let’s have a Friday-night competition!
Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that former First Minister Alex Salmond is staging a show in the Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Fringe next month, from 4-13 August.
You may even have seen a bit of online criticism from certain po-faced pseudonats about the fact that Salmond is sharing a platform with – gasp! – a Yoon, in the shape of the “last of the traditional Tories”, David Davis MP.
It is our solemn duty to inform readers that deranged, shovel-handed Scottish Greens member and known associate of rapists and paedophiles Scott “Heather” Herbert has taken the hump at a Wings article from yesterday in which he was satirically featured.
He filed a malicious false copyright claim with YouTube which resulted in a silent video clip from the article showcasing his comically gigantic man-hands being scheduled for deletion, despite Herbert owning no copyright in the video (it’s the property of TalkTV, who have raised no objections to it) and having no legal standing to file any complaint.
But YouTube’s abysmal automated structures operate on the basis that all complaints are intrinsically valid, and allow absolutely no way for Wings to appeal this decision.
He popped up on Talk TV last night, explaining how a middle-aged man twerking at a number of very young children – some of whom seemed visibly distressed – during a recent Pride march was fine because maybe the children had asked him to (which they manifestly hadn’t), and anyway it was their parents’ fault that it happened.
And, y’know, readers can make their own judgements about that.
Hannah Graf MBE (below, right, receiving the decoration from Prince William in 2019 for his “work updating LGBTQ policy in the British Army”) is a very strange fella.
Here are three recent newspaper stories. This one’s from two weeks ago:
A wealthy businessman, related to an SNP MP, is alleged to have donated tens of thousands of pounds in envelopes to the party which it is claimed have unlawfully not been recorded with the Electoral Commission.
Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”.
Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the OceanGate Titan, and scarcely any less disastrously. And unless you’re one of the colleagues, family or friends of the tragic victims on board the doomed vessel, it’s even more painful to watch.
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: ““don’t … contribute financially or socially to Scotland or Scots” And you do, TH? You’ve really swallowed the “assistance” line…” Jul 17, 18:12
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: ““as a wee mid-week treat for one” There ye gang, NC, fixed it fer ye. Pamper yersel soon!” Jul 17, 18:07
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: ““Governments aren’t really interested in the health and welfare of the poorest” By a remarkable coincidence, neither are most people.…” Jul 17, 17:58
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: “But first we have to understand why the oh-so-nice, touchy-feely, generous, warm, welcoming BRICS luvvies would be so mean as…” Jul 17, 17:47
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: “Sam always likes to fret about this kind of thing, all the while choosing to ignore the immense and accelerating…” Jul 17, 17:29
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: “@Northcode Strong, the fight is in this one, while the pseudonym holds fast, and the bedroom curtains tightly shut out…” Jul 17, 17:13
Hatey McHateface on According As We Need Them: ““moved to Glasgow” Are there no depths of hideous depravity to which the abusive, coercive state apparatus will not sink?…” Jul 17, 17:02
Northcode on According As We Need Them: “In the interests of harmonious relations between the two parties to a hoax union, or alternatively ‘The Union That Never…” Jul 17, 15:52
Northcode on According As We Need Them: ““…so you are willing to say to the face of any English neighbours ‘you are a plundering colonial occupier please…” Jul 17, 15:10
Rev. Stuart Campbell on According As We Need Them: ““The latest poll (IPSOS) of voting intentions for Holyrood has the SNP at 31%, “Other” (Alba, Liberation, ISP, etc.) at…” Jul 17, 15:02
Aidan on According As We Need Them: “@Mark – I love the way it’s described as “damaged a fence” as if it was some kind of innocent…” Jul 17, 14:57
Northcode on According As We Need Them: ““But to most people I suspect, what you are rationalising is bigotry, plain and simple. This is why I find…” Jul 17, 14:43
Mark Beggan on According As We Need Them: “It’s reality time for the Lefty do gooders. Terrorists forfeit their rights.” Jul 17, 14:02
Southernbystander on According As We Need Them: “Right, so you are willing to say to the face of any English neighbours ‘you are a plundering colonial occupier…” Jul 17, 13:33
Aidan on According As We Need Them: “That’s a fair summary – Xaracen is at least engagable, if wrong” Jul 17, 13:32
Marie on According As We Need Them: “Correct. I remember reading The Black Report decades ago about the shocking differences in morbidity and mortality between rich and…” Jul 17, 13:31
Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Even if we took your view that life expectancy dipped from 2011 rather than 2010 (although the data does not…” Jul 17, 13:22
sam on According As We Need Them: “Aidan You say: “namely that the causal impact must at least in part be caveated against the fact that life…” Jul 17, 12:39
Captain Caveman on According As We Need Them: “Sam’s a dullard cut ‘n paste merchant and troll, but he’s actually one of the “better” correspondents if you can…” Jul 17, 12:33
Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Oh it’s another cult member, they really do seem to make their way out of the woodwork don’t they. I…” Jul 17, 11:40
Stuart on According As We Need Them: “So no more about the ‘D’ notice then Professor Baird? Clearly you are not a guest of His Majesty. Safe…” Jul 17, 11:26
sam on According As We Need Them: “Intellectually, Aidan isn’t fit to lick the boots of Alf Baird so he resorts to insult. Yesterday, Aidan was trying…” Jul 17, 11:04
sarah on According As We Need Them: “And another awful thing – see Craig Murray’s piece today about the three women whose car damaged a fence of…” Jul 17, 10:35
Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Yes, obviously, I need to update the PM on how many times Alf Baird has posted that Scotland is a…” Jul 17, 10:27
sarah on According As We Need Them: “@ Dan and sam: Robin McAlpine’s article is a clear and compelling analysis of where the SNP is and our…” Jul 17, 10:26
James Cheyne on According As We Need Them: “Just for fun , Like trans whom claim they are in the wrong body, Scots are in a situation whereby…” Jul 17, 10:25
James on According As We Need Them: “Oh look. Font of all worldly knowledge “Aidan” is on early shift today.” Jul 17, 10:05
Northcode on According As We Need Them: “The sun is oan the shine and a’m mindit o’ a summer lang lang syne. A Simmer Lang Syne Mindit…” Jul 17, 09:37
sam on According As We Need Them: “Pressed post too early. That’s an extract from the submission.” Jul 17, 09:25
Northcode on According As We Need Them: ““In what way is Scotland ‘occupied’ by unionists…”. It isn’t. I’ve just explained how Scotland is occupied by colonialists. “Are…” Jul 17, 08:54