There are terms beloved of politics activists and commonly used on social media which are a baffling mystery to the general public. We’ve spoken several times of the word “gaslighting”, which is understandably used as shorthand for quite a complex thing that’s difficult to describe concisely, but nevertheless acts as a barrier to understanding for anyone not overly political.
Below are two news reports from the Scottish Sun this week:
Both of the people arrested were male-bodied individuals who identify as women. As far as we’re aware, neither of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. They are both the same sex, biologically and legally, and both describe themselves as female.
Yet in giving statements about their respective arrests, Police Scotland called one of them a man and one of them a woman. And we’re having no luck finding out why.
But isn’t that the Scottish Greens co-leader in that picture, in the bunnet, between his colleague Ross Greer and Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, all enthusiastically clapping Douglas just a few weeks ago?
Diligently alert readers may have noticed that the SNP MP, former vomit-mopper and permanent embarrassment to braincells Stewart McDonald has an article in today’s National about the best way to look like he’s trying to secure independence without risking losing his cosy lucrative job in glamorous London with all his fancy MP pals.
(McDonald is also one of the party’s most virulent advocates of its massively unpopular gender reforms, which isn’t relevant to anything but we’ve got a streak to maintain.)
Unfortunately it’s 4,000 words long and unbearably boring, but since you pay us we’ve taken the bullet for you, read the whole thing and now present it here in précis form:
The title of this article might sound a bit like the name of a band making their debut at Glastonbury this year, but in fact it’s something infinitely more serious.
News broke late last night that the person we must presumably now refer to as an “individual” who had been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing Galashiels schoolgirl (happily found safe and well and back home with her parents) had in fact been charged with an as-yet-unspecified crime.
But the alleged crime wasn’t the only thing going unspecified.
People across Scotland breathed a sigh of relief this morning when missing Galashiels 11-year-old Kaitlyn Easson was found safe and well after a multi-service search.
The police have arrested[EDIT: and now charged] a 53-year-old man in connection with her disappearance, named by the Daily Record as Andrew Miller, a local butcher. This was one of two names that numerous sources had been passing to Wings since the man was detained, but the two names only referred to one person.
After Wings’ investigation into the disturbing world of “furries” earlier this week, the mainstream press picked up on the quite extraordinary decision by SNP MSP Christina McKelvie to endorse a “counter-protest” being organised by the costume fetishists against a women’s-rights event in Glasgow tomorrow.
Because it appears the SNP are more and more openly throwing their weight behind both extreme sexual kink (and worse) and the intimidation of women.
Southernbystander on Strike One: “Regarding the fate of comment consigned to the silent void, as Theodor W. Adorno said about music that is written…” Dec 12, 11:35
Captain Caveman on Strike One: “A truly astonishing read (not in a good way). Just incredible. What an utter shit show. Time to clear the…” Dec 12, 11:35
Liz on Strike One: “They can’t blame typos as the stupid judge took notes in longhand, causing everyone to slow down with their responses.…” Dec 12, 11:32
A2 on The ginger stepchild: “thing is , If you realise indi isn’t going to be happening any time soon, then you will prioritise things…” Dec 12, 11:21
Northcode on Strike One: “Associating the SNP with Scottish independence and the independence movement is now a popular anti-Scots unionist tactic. There are only…” Dec 12, 11:08
James Cheyne on Strike One: “The Scottish governance are a public Body, the Scottish judges are a public body, the NHS in Scotland are a…” Dec 12, 10:53
James Cheyne on Strike One: “The NHS is a public Body and cannot overrule Private Rights of the subjects Scotland and neither can judges, Civil…” Dec 12, 10:26
desimond on Strike One: “Is this outside the remit of our Justice Minister?” Dec 12, 10:22
PC Foster on Strike One: “Let em talk- they will fade into the background when they realise you are not paying attention.” Dec 12, 10:13
James Cheyne on Strike One: “It also fails to relate any mention/wording of supreme judgements being capable of overruling it outside the subjects of Scotland,…” Dec 12, 10:12
PC Foster on Strike One: “But the Scottish judges are knobled- so that’s not going to be of any use!!” Dec 12, 10:09
James Cheyne on Strike One: “Corrections to judgement? First of all the right to private rights and private family life which has been amended or…” Dec 12, 09:46
Weary on Strike One: “I was at the Vic A@E the night before the Christmas Eve encounter. (I was held overnight and discharged Christmas…” Dec 12, 09:40
PC Foster on Strike One: “The SG are now using money that was earmarked to support the health of the good people of Fife to…” Dec 12, 09:39
Northcode on Strike One: “Hooray! It looks like I didn’t write my last comment out loud after all! Either that or it has been…” Dec 12, 09:33
PC Foster on Strike One: “The Scottish Government and the Unions are in cahoots about this and have conspired with the Scottish Judicial system to…” Dec 12, 09:25
Marie on Strike One: “I have no trust in the law” Dec 12, 09:15
Northcode on Strike One: “Oops! Sorry, folks. I didn’t realise I’d written my last comment out loud. It’s the voices you see – the…” Dec 12, 09:12
Geoff Anderson on Strike One: “Times https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G77U_GXWgAAFps9?format=jpg&name=small” Dec 12, 08:56
The Flying Iron of Doom on The ginger stepchild: “I am reminded of that Green party wifie Rachel Millward, she being the one who declared that she wanted Wales…” Dec 12, 08:38
Geoff Anderson on Strike One: “A good question https://x.com/blablafishcakes/status/1998747889703477313?s=20” Dec 12, 08:37
Hatey McHateface on The ginger stepchild: “Looks like you’ll have another 5 years of saying it then. Just think how good your cut-and-paste technique will be…” Dec 12, 07:40
Hatey McHateface on The ginger stepchild: “Say what you like about the Covid Spreaders, but they know how to stamp out tranny behaviour. Check out the…” Dec 12, 07:38
Hatey McHateface on The ginger stepchild: “Vast increase in the crime you write of, Willie. Vast increase in the boat people, too, Vast increase in low…” Dec 12, 07:25
Bilbo on The ginger stepchild: “Upon reading a comment in this thread that mentioned PayPal Kavanagh’s site, I made the mistake of having a lurk…” Dec 12, 07:20
Hatey McHateface on The ginger stepchild: “Ah, c’moan noo, Alf. It’s quite incredible that you sit on a claim like this one, that Scotland would be…” Dec 12, 07:15
Angus on Strike One: “The judge who made this judgement has zero integrity and credibility and must be sacked.” Dec 12, 05:41
Peter McAvoy on The ginger stepchild: “It looks like the SNP support for Independence is Not Proven and will soon disappear like the legal safeguard they…” Dec 12, 02:09
Steve a on Strike One: “Poor poor judge keep. I’m reminded of something I read recently. The more eggs you put in your one basket……” Dec 12, 00:34
KITTYBEE on Spoiler Alert: “Well this judge holds the Supreme Court in Contempt. He has to go!!” Dec 12, 00:00
