Fair play to The National, the use of the word “HIS” in this banner on their front page today might be the single funniest thing ever printed by a Scottish newspaper.
Because everyone and his dug in Scotland knows whose strategy it actually is, and how many years Pete Wishart spent traducing it as nonsense and furiously venting his overworked spleen at anyone who advocated it – right up to the point where Nicola Sturgeon adopted it in a desperate last attempt to keep the indy faithful pushing the SNP gravy bus, at which point it became the greatest masterplan of all time.
But today’s piece in the indy equivalent of the Daily Express (albeit with only a tenth of the sales) is so jawdropping that we doubt even Robert Oppenheimer would be up to the job of putting a scorchmark on Wishart’s brass neck, so let’s spend five minutes having a look at it before we go out for a bit of sunshine.
Humza Yousaf is played here by Morgan Freeman, the big plane carrying the bomb is the independence movement and Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are in the chopper.
Even quite alert Wings readers may not recall our brush with thoroughly obnoxious SNP councillor (and former chair of the misleadingly-named Aberdeen Independence Movement) Fatima Joji, because it happened such a long time ago.
But sometimes when someone behaves particularly egregiously in their professional role you have to at least give the proper grievance procedures a try (although it can prove very expensive to do so), and 13 months ago that’s what we did. We still have no idea how close we may be to the end of the process, but we have an update.
Look, we know. But there’s no news. Check out the state of it.
“KEYBOARD PLAYER ALLEGEDLY GOT FAT-SHAMED AT SOME UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME BY FOURTH-DIVISION BAND WHO LAST HAD A TOP 40 SINGLE IN 2006“ and “CYCLIST GOES TO TOILET”. Front pages.
(The keyboard player now works for SNP pie-disposal unit Anne McLaughlin, ironically, which seems to be the closest relationship the story has with current affairs. But hey, kudos to the Record for beating all the other papers to that “exclusive”.)
We remain alert. If anything remotely worthwhile happens, we’ll be on it.
The reality-TV let’s say “personality” Kelly Given – who Wings readers previously met on a trip to New York for Tartan Week with a raft of SNP let’s say “celebrities” a couple of months ago – has been off on another nice holiday.
Last night she told both the viewers of BBC Scotland’s “Seven Days” that she’d just spent three weeks on an island in Greece, where apparently she was quite shocked to discover that the Mediterranean nation was hot in July.
As far as we’re aware, LGBT Youth Scotland remains under police investigation for the suspected grooming and sexual exploitation of children. It’s impossible to imagine any other sort of organisation that could still expect to enjoy the patronage of a First Minister under such circumstances – especially when there were obvious other places he could be reasonably expected to show his face – but that’s how the SNP’s priorities roll in 2023 and there’s no getting away from it.
For any question to do with independence, folks, Humza Yousaf is not the answer.
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Geri on The Broken Rainbow: “Anne, Just a heads up. There is a delay on posts appearing on this site. You have to give it…” May 15, 00:40
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Anne on The Broken Rainbow: “There was plenty of leafletting and campaigning however Craig did not communicate with anyone or offer to help in any…” May 15, 00:15
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Anne on The Broken Rainbow: “Murray accusing other candidates of anti trans views when he did not know any of them is extremely offensive and…” May 15, 00:07
Anne on The Broken Rainbow: “Addendum Murray accusing other candidates of anti trans views when he did not know any of them is extremely offensive…” May 15, 00:06
Geri on The Broken Rainbow: “I remember when I was sweet sixteen. I’d have voted for someone from MTV if they were standing for election.…” May 14, 23:59
Anne on The Broken Rainbow: “There was plenty of leafletting and campaigning however Craig did not communicate with anyone or offer to help in any…” May 14, 23:58
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Broken Rainbow: “———— SNP Emma Roddick 11,162 (30.4%) ———— Liberal Democrat Neil Alexander 10,735 (29.2%) ———— Independent FERGUS EWING 7,840 (21.3%) ————…” May 14, 23:57
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Broken Rainbow: “Craig Murray’s low vote was undoubtedly at least partly due to his being hospitalised with serious heart complications: « Now,…” May 14, 23:35
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Dan on The Broken Rainbow: “https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/05/dr-manivannan/ “The party I stood for, Alliance to Liberate Scotland, while having no formal position on the issue, featured mostly…” May 14, 23:01
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Geri on The Broken Rainbow: ““I’ll be cheering them on.” There’s a surprise, grand dad. From the safety of yer bedsit, no doubt. I’m glad…” May 14, 22:49
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Northcode on The Broken Rainbow: “The swearing-in of Scotland’s MSPs is presented as a moment of democratic renewal, and yet the first act of the…” May 14, 21:04
Lorncal on The Broken Rainbow: “If any of the parties stood up for ordinary folk and refused to implement any of this ‘woke’ ordure, they…” May 14, 20:50
George Ferguson on The Broken Rainbow: “A lot of languages spoke today at the MSPs inauguration. It was almost like it wasn’t my country any more.…” May 14, 19:59
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agentx on The Broken Rainbow: ““O’Neill was meeting Dave Doogan, the SNP leader at Westminster, and Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader at Westminter.…” May 14, 17:12
