Squealing for fame 451
Posted on
October 15, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The totally normal country 104
Posted on
October 14, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Between recesses and the mourning period for the Queen, the UK Parliament has been sitting for just four weeks since the 1st of July this year.
In that time the government has somehow managed to lose three Chancellors Of The Exchequer and is about to engage its fourth in the alarming form of Jeremy Hunt, a man whose primary claim to fame and utility to the UK is as rhyming slang.
Nothing but surrender 264
Posted on
October 10, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes even fools and liars and charlatans speak the truth.
Thing is, we rather liked it when the horses south of the border were frightened. Things happened in those days. But to coin a phrase, those days are past now.
Cursed By Stupidity 364
Posted on
October 06, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Honestly, readers, swear to God, all joking and sarcasm aside, when we saw this tweet yesterday we were wondering how on Earth some clever satirist had managed to hack Anas Sarwar’s account to insert the screenshot into it.
Because we didn’t believe that even Scottish Labour’s low-watt-bulb of a branch manager would willingly post something that made him look so much of an imbecile.
The Neverending Mandate 605
Posted on
September 28, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This probably merits more attention.
Because the SNP are now openly, publicly telling you that they’re never going to achieve independence for Scotland, nor even make any meaningful attempt at it.
The meaning of tolerance 761
Posted on
September 23, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP have just revealed the agenda for their conference next month. As expected, and hilariously, it includes a proposal for a “code of conduct” as proposed by the Twitler Youth sturmjugend of the Aberdeen Independence Movement.
We can only salute their timing.
Nicola Sturgeon: In Her Own Words 138
Posted on
September 22, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You WILL mourn, peasants 299
Posted on
September 19, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An incomplete list of TV channels showing the royal funeral today follows.
Getting nowhere slow 157
Posted on
September 18, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the 8th anniversary of the indyref, and 16 months after closing down (although in fact we’ve averaged one post a week since then), Wings Over Scotland is once again getting more traffic than the next five biggest indy sites put together.
This isn’t a good thing.
Fire Water Burn 994
Posted on
September 08, 2022 by
Chris McEleny
Robert Burns was well known for liking a wee dram. He grew up in the aftermath of the failed rising of 1745, living through the harsh and brutal consequences inflicted on Scotland by the Act of Proscription.
In “Earnest Cry and Prayer” the Bard was responding to the UK Parliament’s Scotch Distillery Act of 1786, a protectionist act aimed at supporting London’s gin industry by hiking duties on whisky sold in England and by taxing Scottish still capacity. It was a call for action to Scotland’s 45 members of Parliament from a man who understood the destructive power of such acts.
He asked which Scot would not feel his blood boil at seeing the resources of the nation’s stills destroyed and its wealth plundered, roaring to the MPs:
“God bless your Honors! can ye see’t,
The kind, auld, cantie carlin greet,
An’ no get warmly to your feet,
An’ gar them hear it,
An’ tell them wi’ a patriot-heat,
Ye winna bear it?”
As the UK Parliament is set to return from its summer holiday it is hard not to see continued parallels over the ages and again today.
This what now? 1,641
Posted on
August 19, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The mess we’re in 107
Posted on
August 18, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
News update: Alexandria Adamson has been suspended from the SNP and his Twitter account is gone after our article on Tuesday. But in case anyone thought sanity had broken out in the party, this person, and many more like him, are still on its payroll.
And you really should be worried about that.
