Attending the Civic Justice Centre in Manchester as part of an ongoing attempt to persecute the feminist journalist and author Helen Joyce, Watson was intercepted by Greater Manchester Police and arrested in connection with allegations of harassment of several people, one of whom was myself.
Watson had been evading justice for a long time. He provides false addresses to the police and courts (which is a crime in itself), and despite numerous criminal complaints against him he manages to dodge arrest because police forces endlessly ping-pong the complaints between each other (“He lives in YOUR area!” “No, yours!”) and allow him to repeatedly arrange voluntary interviews which he never turns up to, stalling and hiding until the six-month limit on harassment cases times out.
You can download them all here in a oner, if you’re REALLY bored. But we don’t advise it, because we can just tell you what they say in a couple of minutes.
It was exactly one year ago today that the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case of For Women Scotland Vs The Scottish Ministers, a judgment which has still not been implemented by the Scottish or UK governments, so it was quite bold of the SNP to choose it as the launch date for their manifesto.
The judgment (which the SNP are in fact still fighting in court) is not referenced in the document and the phrases “women’s rights” and “single-sex” do not appear anywhere in it, although it does say “We are committed to upholding and protecting the human rights of trans people as far as possible within our powers and we will do all we can to ensure that trans people’s identities are recognised and respected”.
So, y’know, more of the same to come for the next five years.
As all alert readers will know, this site likes to keep a watchful eye on the shady and disturbing activities of paedophilia-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland. So we were naturally intrigued to hear that they’d hired a new convenor last month.
And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Blimey, AI Christopher Walken looks very very ill”, well, stay tuned, because this story gets more and more interesting.
Alert readers will have noticed something of a minor furore in recent days around a boneheaded Scottish Greens candidate (as if there were any other kind) calling for the complete abolition of prisons.
So far Kate Nevens – who on the latest polling has a very reasonable chance of being elected on the list – has resisted calls to step down, which is probably for the best as, incredibly, her replacement would be even worse.
With the implosion of Your Party concentrating the nutter vote firmly in Green hands, the next term of the Scottish Parliament is set to feature the worst array of MSPs in Holyrood’s history, with almost everyone in the SNP with any sort of ability or experience resigning to be replaced by hyper-obedient young party drones, while the opposition are mostly putting forward the same old faces who’ve been such utter failures for the last 20 years.
It’s a grim prospect, but we do have a solution to propose.
Because the truth is that we should all be quietly sending BBC Scotland bouquets in appreciation for doing the independence movement a favour for once.
We think the lads at The Scotsman might have gotten a bit confused and/or carried away when it came to putting the clocks forward at the weekend. At 6am on Sunday morning they tweeted this:
But the link was a 404. We checked the print edition of Scotland On Sunday but there was nothing there either. Finally, though, the article has shown up in today’s paper and on the website, and to be honest with you, readers, we still think it must be some sort of mistake, because it’s two days early for April 1st.
The turnout at the “independence march and rally” yesterday was so abysmally poor that it seems almost unfair to pick on any of the scores of SNP elected representatives who didn’t bother to show up.
But dear old Cosy Feet Pete Wishart had the most chef’s-kiss excuse of all.
The reason he didn’t fancy getting his wee Billy Whizz quiff blown about a chilly Calton Hill was that he had important business “taking on the far right” – who were of course nowhere to be seen – with “half a million” (50,000) of his British besties, a convenient short Tube ride away from his London residence, at a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest called, with a double layer of delicious comedic value… UK Together.
If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and sunny day – the independence movement faces an imminent final apocalypse.
So here’s how to prepare yourself for when the SNP win a landslide with 35%, Keir Starmer says “So what?” and then a deathly silence descends for another five years.
Even Kelly Given and Iona Fyfe didn’t show up for this one. That’s how bad it is.
The last faint hope of any remotely positive or at least interesting outcome of May’s election just left the building.
It wasn’t MUCH of a hope, and it’s absolutely no surprise in the wake of the comically shambolic, belief-defyingly inept farce that has been the birth of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s fringe-of-the fringe party, but all the same its extinguishing means the next two months will be even more of a waste of time than they looked like being.
Frankly, readers, we may as well not bother having an election at all.
Ryan on Search And Replace: “Peter Murrell is a total dafty but to get 5 years for that and some get off with less for…” Jul 5, 15:44
Mark Beggan on Narrowing the options: “If I took this pish as serious as you do then I would be out there with my rubble flag…” Jul 5, 15:25
Xaracen on Narrowing the options: ““It goes without saying that none of these nonsensical alternative law doctrines enjoy any support or recognition by any authority…” Jul 5, 15:08
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: ““Far more sensible people than you very likely will be convinced” Far more sensible people and far less sensible people…” Jul 5, 13:51
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: “Thanks for clearing that up, Anthem. I get it. The case for Indy is so open and shut that you…” Jul 5, 13:37
Captain Caveman on Narrowing the options: “Good grief, you must be bored and very bitter, Fatso. It’s not all about how much more “free” stuff you…” Jul 5, 12:45
James on Narrowing the options: “They must actually think that the Scotch zip up the back of the heid. Why let the facts, plain for…” Jul 5, 12:22
agentx on Narrowing the options: ““Police are investigating claims £1.5million went missing from the accounts of the 2014 Yes campaign. The organisation had close links…” Jul 5, 11:32
Aidan on Narrowing the options: ““Xaracen says: 5 July, 2026 at 10:28 am And what on earth makes you think that we can’t build a…” Jul 5, 11:31
Aidan on Narrowing the options: “There are people in England who claim that due to their own interpretation of Magna Carta, that whole swathes of…” Jul 5, 11:27
Xaracen on Narrowing the options: “And what on earth makes you think that we can’t build a case around Alf’s stated theft of £150+Billion per…” Jul 5, 10:28
Xaracen on Narrowing the options: “But that ‘reality’ is unlawful and unconstitutional precisely because of those ‘musty 300 YO documents’, Hatey. Even merry old England…” Jul 5, 10:10
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: “As I’ve just said to Xaracen, beats me how you can’t leverage that claim, if it’s true, into a slam…” Jul 5, 09:54
lothianlad on Narrowing the options: “Glad the Scottish establishment is being held to account.” Jul 5, 09:52
DavidT on Narrowing the options: “Operation Branchform uncovered embezzlement but was primarily an investigation into fundraising fraud following a complaint about the handling of a £667,000 ring-fenced…” Jul 5, 09:38
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: “Not compelling. Not persuasive. Not practical. Not aligned with reality. Find something else. For example, Alf’s claim that Scotland loses…” Jul 5, 09:36
Alf Baird on Narrowing the options: “Aye Hatey, they are well worth their £2 billion budget for “those who are working for the security services” to…” Jul 5, 09:29
Xaracen on Narrowing the options: ““I’m struggling to identify a single SNP MSP or MP who I would trust to organise a piss-up in a…” Jul 5, 08:47
Xaracen on Narrowing the options: “James, it wouldn’t matter even if Article XVIII (and/or the Tenor attached to Article XXV by the Scottish parliament) didn’t…” Jul 5, 08:42
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: “@Andy Wasn’t it Elkins who proved that in a colony, everybody not working for the security services actually is? Plus,…” Jul 4, 23:18
Hatey McHateface on Narrowing the options: “One thing you may have missed is the recent call by one of the more outspoken spokesmen for the religion…” Jul 4, 23:05
sam on Narrowing the options: “Caveman’s a fool. Knows nothing about the case. Opens his gub with nothing to say.” Jul 4, 21:46
Captain Caveman on Narrowing the options: “Sam is a pronouns kinda guy.” Jul 4, 21:22
Andy Wiltshire on Narrowing the options: “That’s just what you would say if you were working for MI6, which I think we can all agree proves…” Jul 4, 21:09
Hatey McHateface on Fob, Fob, Fobbing Along: ““Colonialism eventually eats itself” Care to put a date on that, Alf? Currently, you’re claiming colonialism is eating us to…” Jul 4, 19:55
Insider on Narrowing the options: ““James” Che… Have your carers walked out on strike and left you alone with the computer ?” Jul 4, 19:53
Doddsotheglen on Tuning In The Shine: “Apart from talking down Scotland and Scotgov and SNP the BBC in Scotland is very controlling of it’s journalists and…” Jul 4, 19:40
