Let’s take a moment off, folks. In our latest Panelbase poll, we also threw in a question just for fun, with genuinely no agenda at all, simply because we were curious to know what the answer was. Here it is:
By now many of you will have seen last night’s article on Craig Murray’s site, in which a current SNP branch convener revealed how the party machine is setting fire to all its own rules in a desperate attempt to secure the succession of Humza Yousaf.
Yousaf is the party establishment’s last hope of keeping all of its misdeeds in the last few years under wraps, and realising the magnitude of what’s at stake if he loses to Ash Regan or Kate Forbes, they’re abandoning all pretence of neutrality or integrity and throwing everything they’ve got at getting him elected.
Last month Wings broke a story about a “survey” being conducted by dozens of primary schools in the Aberdeen area in which children as young as nine were being asked about their sexual orientation and “gender identity”.
The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
Andrew scott on The quality of mercy: “What a brilliant article Salmond steered a steady ship -his successors ran it aground Simples” Apr 4, 11:54
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “Aye, Mrs Thatcher and Mrs Gourlay… twa sober women’s visiouns o Scotland us Scots kin dae withoot. We will see…” Apr 4, 11:45
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “Well young skiver shouldn’t you be claiming benefits and ranting about the English? A rant a day keeps reality away.” Apr 4, 11:30
Cynicus on The quality of mercy: “agentx says: 3 April, 2026 at 7:19 pm “SNP and Greens join independence march ahead of Holyrood election” ======= Haud…” Apr 4, 10:56
diabloandco on The quality of mercy: “A friend of mine wrote a song some years ago and came across it recently, decided to see what could…” Apr 4, 10:52
Bilbo on The quality of mercy: “The streets of South East Asian countries are scrupulously clean. This is down to the authorities being strict with littering…” Apr 4, 10:39
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: “My analysis of Storrar’s fine text on Scottish national identity, which is a critical aspect for any colonized people, was…” Apr 4, 09:43
Bilbo on The quality of mercy: ““I don’t think that the 50% of the population who support independence aren’t committed to it being delivered.” It’s all…” Apr 4, 09:41
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “The Scottish Liberation Movement should be about the freeing of Scotland and the Scots from the hoax Treaty of Union…” Apr 4, 09:08
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “TH @ 4.23 Well said! We have been betrayed by total w8ankers.. The younger generations are totally captured by it,…” Apr 4, 06:05
twathater on The quality of mercy: “Scotland will never be independent as long as we allow non Scots to vote for our independence , 2014 was…” Apr 4, 04:23
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “Beggars So you’re cool with the North Koreans, China, R, most South American countries, U, Poland and various African states…” Apr 4, 03:45
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “The problem with the Western world is that they still think evil does the Goose Step.” Apr 4, 02:35
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “Hopefully a better link: LIBERATION SCOTLAND UN UPDATE www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGn2SXcM7zw” Apr 4, 00:29
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “LIBERATION SCOTLAND UN UPDATE (2 April 2026) « Peter Young (IndyScotNews) discusses with Alan McMahon, Craig Murray and Sara Salyers…” Apr 4, 00:07
Geri on The quality of mercy: ““Independence is not even in SNP voters’ top three priorities” Neither is the top two cause they’re completely out of…” Apr 3, 22:04
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “The seminal (and still available) book by Will Storrar – SCOTTISH IDENTITY: A CHRISTIAN VISION was published by Handsel Press…” Apr 3, 22:02
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “The joke was of course first cracked by Tom Nairn. You should watch (minister) Professor Will Storrar’s 10 minute tribute…” Apr 3, 21:20
Geri on The quality of mercy: “The problem is these independence marches used to be a collective of all different political parties or none at all.…” Apr 3, 21:16
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “” …the shift from an independence movement to a liberation movement…” Yes, indeed, Alf. I have, for some time now,…” Apr 3, 21:03
Geri on The quality of mercy: “Offshore/North Sea: Reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act 1998. The licensing, exploration, and exploitation of offshore oil…” Apr 3, 21:02
Karen on The quality of mercy: “Google “What was Graeme McCormick promised?” And it comes up with “Swinney committed to moving forward with the independence campaign…” Apr 3, 20:40
sarah on The quality of mercy: “O/T: naming no names but have you noticed the absence of certain prolific btl commenters? It is a bank holiday…” Apr 3, 20:18
Geri on The quality of mercy: “Swinney says nothing of the sort. Scotlands oil is a reserved matter to our Overlords & they told us it…” Apr 3, 20:17
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: ““Do NOT vote for them” Thankfully postcolonial theory predicts the dominant national party now co-opted by colonialism disintegrates. Hence the…” Apr 3, 19:44
Geri on Sicknote Slippers: “It wasn’t an independence march. It was a march against the rise of the hard right which is what that…” Apr 3, 19:37
agentx on The quality of mercy: ““SNP and Greens join independence march ahead of Holyrood election” 28 March 2026 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy817d0pjdxo” Apr 3, 19:19
TURABDIN on The quality of mercy: “someone opined that the Scots will be free when the last minister is strangled with the last copy of the…” Apr 3, 17:53
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “Baby Swinney says; Drill Baby Drill.” Apr 3, 17:43