The fine art of omission
Posted on
August 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll only be making a very brief comment on the story in Tuesday’s Herald, for hopefully obvious reasons. The piece by Tom Gordon has been written for maximum innuendo to allow the wildest speculations on social media – which are of course duly taking place – but the alleged events relate entirely to some tweets from our Twitter account, none of which have been deleted and all of which are still publicly visible.
Nothing more sinister or serious than some tweets has occurred, or been alleged to have occurred. None of the tweets involved are in ANY way threatening, not even in a joking sense. That’s all we’ll be saying on the subject at this time.
One knows that one is irrelevant when one is ignored. That is all.
I’ve been away the last couple of days for a happy family occasion, and I don’t “do” Twitter anyway, so I haven’t a clue what’s going on.
But in another way I suspect I do know what’s going on. (I believe Gandhi said something once on that subject.)
I follow the Wings twitter account on a daily basis and apart from a few sweary words or calling some folk a few names like batshit crazy I’ve never seen anything sinister. If I had I wouldn’t be following it. That’s all I’m saying on the subject.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
So the alleged victim of this crime choose to keep their identity hidden?
Sorry, I don’t know if you can answer such questions.
Had to happen Stu – you’re too effective in calling out the lies and mendacity for the Establishment to tolerate.
But we are all 100% behind you and if any fund raising is needed just say the word.
Meh! That’s all I’m saying it as well…although why does the Herald want to maximise a Queen song?
Best-selling author, forensic scientist and ex-call girl, @belledejour_uk tweeted…
“I find super interesting because: I once reported years of harassment to same police force. This included messages along the lines of…
…’I will find you and beat you, bring a surgeon,’ etc. Dozens of letters, some posted by hand through my letterbox, and so on…
…and that resulted in a warning but not an arrest…”
Taranaich @ 23:59,
(Precisely!)
Wanna buy the Herald to find out more but, meh. Can’t be arsed.
Tell us what you need – we’ll be there.
You are the number one threat to them – because you resolutely stick to the facts – and show them up big time.
We know your worth and we’ll back you.
Just so you know.
Best wishes now and always
I am with Capella. Do a fundraiser as a signal of intent. I love comedy. All of this crap takes a toll so you might want to watch that.
Tom Gordon at last a world exclusive!!
Sources from a unionist party?
Now away and wash your hands their soiled.
ps any views on the tories reintroducing the councillor’s from stirling area. Diversion.
With you all the way, love you want to have your babies. Wee bit too much ? I’m not so sure
I’m not going to pore through Stu’s tweets looking for a suspect; he posts dozens a day and gets sweary with almost everybody. The j
ob would take me until the next bloody eclipse!
We need to be looking for what they are trying to slip past us.
This has distraction written all over it.
Is the timing of it significant,I wonder?
Take care of yourself Rev….we are all behind you,but I think you know that!
Je suis Stuee. 🙂
If ya need more money just ask.
On a plus note, received my perk pack from the Levelling The Field crowdfunder, including beautiful brolly. 🙂
Thanks to you and Lindsay for all that you do.
Alistair White I’ll tell you what you won’t find in the Herald, a full page explanation of why Ruth Davidson can get a piece published in the Telegraph but couldn’t pick up a phone to answer any questions to GMS or even The Herald re her response to numerous questions over the last few weeks
i will say this though she’s right into equality.
She treats the public like cretins and the Scottish media with the same disdain
Ps.Scotland by now must be over run with squirrels
When did we start believing a headline?
It is strange the things that our press chooses to focus on. Such pure motives for the getting the real issues out there. They must be really smarting after last week.
Being cynical, one could speculate that there is currency in perpetuating the idea that someone is a ‘disreputable’ person?
I doubt the Rev has been “targeted” or that this has anything to do with the “establishment”.
He’s been reported to the police before allegedly for stuff he said on twitter. The vileness he tweeted was “what an utter disgrace”. This particular person with a grievance accused the Rev of “threatening” her then for his tweet.
Is it the same person? No idea. If not, whoever it is won’t have been the first to blow things out of proportion, just as the Herald have done in their clickbait article.
You can find the story of the original Twitter spat on Wings from 2016.
I’ve followed Wings on Twitter for years, and I can’t think of anything that would justify this.
Another point. There have been no charges! Talk of fundraisers then is a bit premature. Best wait see what comes out in the wash.
Looks as though they’re trying to make a point of wearing you down now and of course maligning the Independence movement in the process. Hit with this now and what next … over the next year or so? Seems kind of strange, and then again not, that this coincides with another wee case! Meanwhile Mr Gordon will be helping to attract even more people to the site. Thanks Tom.
Take care of yourself Stu and watch your back. We’re with you all the way X
Never a dull moment. Whatever they’re up to now, you have 110% support from at least one of your countless avid readers!
And who the fuck is Tom Gordon:D
Just one more gimp in a newsroom somewhere no doubt.
As Stu says : – The piece by Tom Gordon has been written for maximum innuendo to allow the wildest speculations on social media – which are of course duly taking place..
Hang on in there STU.
Let’s hope HM Constabulary will be equally assiduous in their efforts to arrest/caution those who are making malicious and threatening remarks towards Nicola Sturgeon, Mhairi Black, Joanna Cherry and many others.
Nous sommes STU.
Congratulations Stuart.
Gordon’s “Exclusive” put on the Herald website at 10pm and, by midnight it is the most-read article. Straight to Number One.
I hope Gordon has the decency to drop you a wee bottle of something in thanks. But, his story really is a shoddy piece of journalism – what has my Herald become!! I am disgusted.
Its fine we know. No worries keep the pressure on .
On the other hand and despite what I’ve said, look how long it took the Crown Office in Scotland to exonerate Michelle Thomson despite the police never even speaking to her other than when she went voluntarily to them. Of course she was never charged.
So I’d like to know if this is a recent allegation that the police have acted on? Say from last week or even last month. Or is it an old allegation where a decision originally was taken to set it aside and that has now been rejuvenated?
Knowing that would make a huge difference as to my feelings regarding believing it to be someone with a grievance or something altogether more unsavoury.
If anyone reads the Herald article – ARCHIVE it – so we don’t have to click on it directly.
Just wanted to add my words of support too, Stuart. With you all the way, don’t let them get to you.
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I can guess who ‘that woman’ is.
I look forward to Tom Gordon ripping Davidson’s lungs out for readmitting racist sectarian bigots back into Ruth Davidson’s Party.
A pin just dropped.
Very interesting indeed. Hopefully this will backfire bigly & reawaken the movement from its hibernation…at long last. With you all the way Stu. Chin up 😉
I rarely read Twitter and have no account so I have no idea what this is about. If the Tweets are all still there then it can’t much of anything or the press and Twitterati would have been all over it at the time of whatever spat took place.
As for Uncle Tom and the Herald, I likewise have no account nor part with a penny to buy the sad rag so I won’t be bothering to read his piece.
Not surprised if it is the most read Herald story though. Stu is far more important to Scottish politics than a couple of racist Tories or a corrupt Labour politician or two (all of which have been ten a penny down the years).
Click on the links!
The link in the first line is to someone’s twitter who has transcribed it.
Yep, add my support too Rev. On here we’re all with you.
Another fundraiser? Absolutely fine. Hoping things return to normal soon, dissecting these trashy papers like the Herald.
With Scottish Union going back to being Labour funded by the Tories (some racist, some not so racist), harassment complaints against Indy bloggers and the Press in full Yoon mode, has someone set another referendum date and not told us?
@Graf Midgehunter
Here’s the archived link.
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Not surprised if it is the most read Herald story though. Stu is far more important to Scottish politics than a couple of racist Tories or a corrupt Labour politician or two (all of which have been ten a penny down the years).”
Its maybe a first test of their new online laws, which they’ve writing and rewriting since early last year. Mad old trout Teresa calls YES Scots extremists, that’s all they prodding they need to get going. Its only new law in England and Wales too.
If we cant insult UKOK hackdom now, its just another step down the road to neo fascist Brexit UK zone.
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They’re terrified of you Stuart. Gagging you would be a huge blow to the indy movement and they know it but there’s an army of supporters/friends out there who will always have your back..Take care my friend..
This is a “great” line from Tom Gordon in the Herald:
However the former computer games reviewer, whose social media posts are often filled with expletives, is seen by critics as a figurehead for the so-called Cybernats, inspiring the most obnoxious elements of the Yes movement to harass Unionists online.
Starting to sound just like Jackie Bird “is seen by critics” LOL
Gordon’s piece in the Herald is worthy of any fascist state manipulating public opinion.
It embodies every nuance and innuendo Wings has been illuminating and denigrating for years.
As soon as Wings announced it would sue Dugdale, you know plans were discussed and firmed up on a counter-claim.
I’ve called the fight for self-determination a struggle. This is evidence, if any was needed, of the length the right-wing of all political parties will go to silence a strong voice.
Starting to sound just like Jackie Bird “is seen by critics” LOL
Beeb Scotland gimp Call Kaye, told her listener that the Scots gov baby boxes are the SNP’s “trojan horse.” Its getting that demented in the world of UKOK hacks.
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Has all the stench of the attack on Tommy Sheridan,
the UK State is a cesspool,
it controls the media and judiciary,
After a trial where he was proven innocent by a jury,
Tommy got 3 years for supposed perjury,based on a covert film which he didn`t appear in,some `independent expert` said “it was Tommy`s voice deffo m`lord”
Coulson on the other hand was proven to have committed perjury but was let off by the judge,
perjury it turns out isn`t in itself against the law,
it`s up to the judges discretion who he/she frees or who he/she sends to jail for 3 fricken years.
Anyhoo Stu,
the State hates you because they can`t control you.
@ Grouse Beater 1.25am
As per, you have summed it up eloquently.
Je suis Rev.
Stay strong, Stu. We aren’t going anywhere.
Was bound to happen sooner or later Stu. You can only be a thorn in the establishments side for so long before they try and fit you up.
As much as we might disagree from time to time, I know what you are and what you are not. You have my support and the support of all my family and friends. Without question.
You are clearly irritating the shite out of em and they just don’t know how to handle you.
Keep up the good work bro 🙂
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Off topic.
Nothing to do with this thread, obviously, but John Erskine, a Scottish Labour staffer to Kezia Dugdale, has just followed the same person on twitter that Tom Gordon recently followed.
“Same person” will be hoping that twitter’s share price takes a hit as a result of all that following.
“The truth? You can’t handle the Truth”
Jack Nicholson. A Few Good Men.
Or was it the MSM? Not.
@Smallaxe
Nice tune and appropriate, cheers.
That’s good news, we were all worried you were ill.
Read the Herald article, yes, it certaoinly makes the most of it. But I did like this quote:
“His Wings Over Scotland website continues to dissect stories in the media. ”
Good publicity. Won’t be long before Wings is the No 1 UK political website.
Oh how support for the cause of Independence will soar if this is over the stupidity it looks as though it is
Right behind you Stu, and if required our cash as well
We wont let them buy the law
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🙂
Apologies that was for OT
I don’t do twitter, or the Herald any more. But I do know about Unionist abuse, lies and bile on a daily basis.
They do not like you answering back and always try to misrepresent you and put words in your mouth that do not belong there. Is there something in the water they drink that makes them like that?
I am getting it from Labour voting Rise/SSP “Yessers” and rightwing Siol nan Gaidheal anti socialsts and Republicans.
Keep yer pecker up Stu we need you there is aloooooot more work to do, as all have said we are behind you 150% according to jabbas abacus
WoS v MSM, I know who I believe. I won’t even bother to click on the Herald anymore. I await a crowd-funder
Please go to my twitter feed, where I have print screened and posted, in 4 parts, the entirety of the Herald article, so we don’t have to up their clicks.
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A little irony…
Tom Gordon is no stranger to having his twiiter account suspended for breaking the rules. Twice. Look in the mirror please Tom, before hurling yer chuckies at yon big glazed hoose…..
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Oh, her again. Yawn.
Remember the film, ‘Get Carter’. They’re doing a sequel. ‘Get Campbell’.
I was discussing this with a friend who served as a police officer. He said, with a twinkle in his eye…
Justice is a two edged sword. A complainant in such circumstances may very well find themself on charges, ranging from wasting police time, to something more serious, perhaps with a custodial result. There have been cases where the word “custodial” is interchangable with “place of safety” under the Mental Health Act.”
Clearly someone with a mental illness needs the appropriate help, and it woul be wholly improper to comment on specifics, especiallly as a peson with paranoia and other illnesses will be reading these threads looking for any perceived attack. The trouble is when such persons abreact. Their own ravings on social media then become competent for review by the police + CPS + Procurators Fiscal etc.
Whilst this latest developments may or may not be worrisome for Stuart, the end game has the capacity to backfire spectacularly for the original complainant – the person who first went to a police station.
Though given the prize of cessation of Scotland from the UK, be in no doubt, Stuart Campbell and many others of his ilk will feel more and more pressure. Fortunately a lot of good people have his back.
Still here for you Stu!
Does anyone else see parallels here with the treatment of Julian Assange?
Aye, you’re doing something right, Stu.
Saw a news article flash up on the screens at the airport yesterday about the damaging affects of tweets on mental health etc. Weird coincidence I’m sure.
These people want to dish out the abuse without recourse. If they can’t take it back, they shouldn’t dish it out.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this Yoon staged pish.. with you all the way Stu
Hey there Rev Stu = )
Here for you.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down. 🙂
I know where I’ll be doing my reading…
Your obviously doing something right Rev. Chin up, don’t let the bad people grind you down and we’re right behind you.
Well, well. Timing is everything innnit? Funny how the news was almost dominated by law and ‘bad tweets’ yesterday.
They should interview Nicola and now Aamer on that subject. Two of my favourite sayings are the Ghandi one – first they…..
The other is anonymous but states that “If your voice held no Power, they wouldn’t try to silence you”.
Everybody on their best behaviour now, cos you never know who’s watching!
So much for harassment. No one knows who it is?
It was a different story when ‘journalists’ were being ‘harrassed’ by the Police.
Rev Stu , with you all the way and ready for a fund raiser.
Witch hunts are the only game in town for the shameless media of Scotland – they’ll want us all sent to the Gulags next.
May the Herald et al suffer the consequences of their actions and sink beneath a tide of apathy from the populace.
I missed all this nonsense blowing up, Stu.
As someone above says, I’m relieved that the problem is not health/family related. Don’t know what to say that might help except the moral support is here for you and let us know if there’s anything we can do.
‘They’ are trying to shut Al Jazeera down aswell so you are in estimable company.
The Police are wasting public money on ‘charges’ that can never go to court. 50% of charges never go to Court. People being put in cells overnight.
Best regards, Stu, I know who I believe!
Say the word for any support needed.
Totally behind Revstu. Now we see the British state react. They cannot win their argument or defend the union, so now they smear. Textbook stuff. Fortunately we are all well wise to their underhanded ways.
Timing is most interesting. Most, most insteresting.
Just to say we must be getting closer to our aim. Sorry you have to go through this, but there are a lot of people on your side. Keep the pressure on.
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What does ‘Take back control mean?’ What is ‘nationalism’?
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Don’t let this get you down Stu, you’re bigger and better than them
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New homes on the way for Clydebank
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If the general public engage brain they will realise what a witch hunt this is and why.
Jeremy and Cat Boyd being bigged up last night on STV news – sickening.
I’m proud to stand up for Wings and Stu against a state propaganda machine that is out of control.
Not in my name.
GMS just interviewed Murdo pathetic attempt to justify Tory councilors reinstatement tried to turn it into an SNP BAD story
Someones cage been rattled, Or have the Monkeys Opened a door they should never have Done ???
Chin up Stew,
You know that you’ve got thousands of supporters, just itching to help, in anyway we can.
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Morning all. Well, well, I’m surprised to hear this nonsense, but then again, if I think about it, it’s no surprise at all.
You’re obviously getting to them big time Rev. Like others I’m pleased that it’s not a health/family reason, but I’m sorry that you are having to go through all this nonsense.
Remember Stu, we’re all here for you. If you need more cash, let us know.
Please take care, you’re important in this fight, and boy do they know that. Hence where we are now.
It’ll come out in the wash whether it’s some misguided soul, or political mischief. Sigh!
The last straw from the Herald as far as I’m concerned. I will never click on their web pages ever again and have removed all links on all devices.
Not surprised at all, been expecting something similar since you did the fundraiser to sue Dugdale. I have no doubt someone in SLAB hopes the mud sticks prior to the case being heard.
Frankly, this strikes me as par for the course after the Dugdale business. And it wouldn’t surprise me if this was just the first in a few ‘allegations’ brought to the authorities.
But then that’s the trouble with ‘allegations’; when the ‘alligators’ bring them, the press report it and the shit sticks. And that’s the whole point. And, to begin another sentence with a conjunction, I hope people recognize exactly what’s going on.
So, this is likely to play out just like the Thompson case; a year or so in legal limbo while the press can print whatever speculative shit they want, then we find out at the end of it that nothing illegal whatsoever took place.
You’ve just been ‘Thompsoned’
What a shithole the UK is.
Chin up young man, by getting under their skin you are succeeding. These days anyone can make a complaint.
Your monthly stats for August will be interesting reading.
Keep well and smile.
I hope you get reunited with your data soon.
Harassing Unionists? ….those Unionists that control the state apparatus, virtually all the media and have an army to back them and they’re ‘vexed’ over a sprinkling of expletives? …diddums, whose a wee snowflake mr Gordon?
We will back you all the way Rev. This can only be happening because you’re hurting the Establishment.
Well, well. The Rev’s been lifted. We all knew something was coming. Is this it? Twitter?
To the point of pissing everybody off I’ll say it again. Second only to Nicola Sturgeon, Stu Campbell is the most important asset we have in our fight.
We’ve got your back, son.
This will come to nothing, of that I am certain.
What a f****** country we live in.
Comments closed on this article… wonder why!
Hey Stuart you really have excelled yourself this time. It was always going to happen though, you’ve been extremely successful these last few monthis at rubbing their noses in it. Good man ? We have your back. Money no object
Arresting the leaders is always a stage in the political agenda in certain types of governments.
But it is also a stage in the collapse of certain types of government.
If Stu is jailed then who will pay the Trolls???
These Trolls need paid,
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Ok,
I have read the “offensive” posts and can’t find a single incident of harassment. So unless you’re a snowflake then I wouldn’t worry, you are loved and respected far and wide, you will receive thousands in financial support, but more that that we have your back. So you got “arrested” so what, it’s no shame when you’re telling the truth. What is the worst that can happen?
I once was really arrested for taking pictures of soviet tanks, let’s just say the worst that could happen was at the forefront of my mind.
If you let these wankers intimidate you then your less the man I believe you are.
Oh and as Smallaxe would say,
Peace and Love.
I think they all want us to look at the squirrel.
Oooooh! Lists!
Denmark
Finland
Slovakia
Norway
Iceland
Croatia
Bos & Herz
Moldova
Albania
Lithuania
Macedonia
Slovenia
Latvia
Estonia
Cyprus
Montenegro
Luxembourg
Malta
We’ll let you get back to nodding to yourself in complete agreement about how right you always are.
Herald excelled itself today. Story about Wings on front page continued on an inside page where it is right next to a story about JKRowling. How droll. A juxtaposition for those in the know. So sharp it is a wonder they don’t cut themselves…oh wait
While the unionists and their media will always look for offence or perceive threats where none exists.
They on the other hand believe they can make any offensive jokes, comments and threats, and consider that’s acceptable.
We just take a look back at some of what Darling said about the SNP and Alex Salmond, when objections were raised, the response form the unionists were Scots are so thinned skinned that they can’t take a joke.
That’s the nature of the beast we face, one rule for them another for everyone else.
Dearie me!
A really pathetic attempt to snuil and smear Stu.
This will no doubt be used, if necessary, should The Kezia Affair come to court.
Nothing but transparent, these types. Someone’s been reading the Zinoviev letter.
Nana says:
22 August, 2017 at 7:42 am
link to hebrideswriter.com
From the off, great link Nana. As usual not a peep about this actual, real story, for Scots in the UK zone, in any of our neo fascist gimp news network:D
Its a great read but its hard not to wonder how all the antagonists in this drama voted 2014?
“When I spoke to Steve, he was clearly bamboozled by this lack of support, at a high level, and apparent bias towards big business at the expense of local interest.
“You wouldn’t get away with this anywhere else in the world,” he said.
Can you imagine the French letting this happen? Not in a million years. Which is kind of ironic when the main party in what amounts to an attempted land grab is French-owned.”
Its not irony, its how the UK has been sold, to anyone at all with big bucks. Scots that actually live here just have to shut up and pay up.
Scots wind energy looted, hundreds of billions worth of oil and gas gone. But I am British not Scots and I only speak up when I want my slice of the pie.
Poor Indy, as much imagination as a stick insect.
Man “sucky” reasons right enough. I missed this ‘coz, for once, decided to have an early night.
Stu, you’ve had some real “sucky” times in the past but here you are. Bigger, stronger and with lots more friends?
They cannot silence us all…?
Your importance to independence is inversely proportional to Tom Gordon’s credentials as a journalist.
Stay strong, we are with you.
Did ” they” swoop “in the middle of the night ” or was it a ” dawn raid” .Stu?
If, as we all assume it takes time for this to be resolved (a la Michelle Thomson) is it possible to countersue an accuser before it comes to court? Why should someone’s life be on hold for years due to potential malicious prosecution?
O/T
Following my e-mail to Virgin Media re their blocking of mobilise.scot I have received this morning an e-mail from them stating that they are going to unblock access to the site within the next few days.
Tom Gordon..a bell-end in his own cathedral.
This just goes to prove how succcessfull you are and how frightened the imperial masters are of truth. They know the end is nigh and will now say/do anything to prevent your calling them out. If funds needed just say the word.
OH NO… I didn’t make the *indy* cut.
Devastated..not
Encouraged
Defiant
Independent
Strong
Faithful
Scottish????
BBC Scotland headline.
Wings Over Scotland blogger arrested over alleged harassment
Hi Stu be prepared to be door stepped by Nick,Gary and Campbell as they will have time on their hands as they will not be going after their pal Ruthie Col Tank Commander.
We are all with you it seems that they can say and do what they want but don’t like the truth being told.
So, it started in The Herald. A wee google news search nowshows us that The Scotsman & BBC are going with it! – Strange that eh??
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‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.’
Why do we as UK citizens still have no idea why our cops and legal eagles take years to investigate people after they arrest them, like what happened to Thomson?
If these investigations take as long as they take, fine. But we why do we not have the right to know why they take as long as they take and so on.
If these investigation timeline lengths are in fact political, designed to take out opposition, who takes these decisions and how can we make them accountable?
And why is it that the accuser keeps anonymity yet the accused identity is made instantly available to our evermore repellent UKOK hackdom?
You’d think I was 8 years old, and just landed in teamGB from another planet:D
have you seen what’s pinned to a certain journos twatter feed?
“Have you been affected by stalking and reported incidents to the police? Complete this survey – link to bit.ly”
Whew! I thought it was something serious but it’s just a wee unionist plot to undermine Wings so nothing to really worry about.
“Have you been affected by stalking and reported incidents to the police? Complete this survey – link to bit.ly”
Herald this morning has Daily Mail type article from Chris Deerin trashing Business for Scotland on its oil taxation claims.
I switched to Herald from Scotsman many years ago but now buy The National as my only morning paper as Herald has reverted to its traditional Tory Unionist roots.
Also Tory John McLennan in Scotsman promoting idea that STV will merge with ITV. Something Unionists would get orgasmic over.
Hi Stu,
If you haven’t done so already make sure that all the Wings data both current and historical has been well backed up several times in different physical locations before the bastards stage a raid and take away all your equipment as ‘evidence’.
One of the greatest assets you have at Wings is the archival material you keep and use to hit the bad guys right betweeen the eyes (and legs).
Glasgow Herald – once the world’s first. Herald now Scotland’s worst. Herald no more, Sunday Herald no more and the Independent is on a shoogly peg with me. Best wishes and support Rev.
I had forgotten about the Dugdale thing…oops
I had thought it was more that “someone” sent the rev those altered oil figure’s and he published them.
But like the others I’m glad it’s Westminsters shit and no family or health trouble!
as said by so many above, stay strong Stu, we are all behind you fully. It just shows how scared of you the establishment and all its lackeys are.
Hope you are free to return to your media dissections soon. Must say, I found that phrase in the herald article quite surprising, as it describes perfectly how you open up their news stories for scrutiny. And implies that such scrutiny throws up interesting and important points – which as we all know, it does!
Free the Bath One…
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Read the BBC report, they have kept it pretty balanced; presumably in case the accusation goes nowhere and the police drop it.
email the herald and tell them of your displeasure!
BBC report here
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W expect many newspaper columns to cover this story like an assassination attempt. The luvvies MUST be worried. Keep up the good work?
It really is desperate stuff from the unionist Establishment. When you have no positive argument, attack the man rather than the ball.
They really are the lowest of the low. I have stood in things on the pavement more decent than these people.
If you need addition funds, you know where we are.
Hi Nana – that BBC article you posted has a link to Wings at the end. If you click that you get taken to Dr Craig Dalzell’s Nov 24th 2016 article “Out of the Cave” on GERS. Handy!
gus1940,
I think you’ll find that they have taken it already. It is normal to confiscate possible evidence at he time of arrest.
Hence, ‘Wings Over Scotland is currently operating under circumstances which significantly impair the frequency, length and presentation of posts.’
Westmonster must be gearing up for next Indy campaign. First Stu, who is next?
As an aside when will authorities (come on Police Scotland protect the First Minister) take action on death threat tweets to Nicola Sturgeon. Ah let me think… probably just after hell freezes over.
You are obviously scaring the merde out of establishment in the run up to inevitable Indy referendum.
Mornin’ Nana
Best advice to follow is ATL I reckon. Seems I’ve missed a bit whilst minding store elsewhere.
I’m sure that the line of thought will be ”this guy keeps exposing inconvenient truth backed up with evidence, what can we do to shut him up? I know, lets start an organised smear campaign, we know that the British Nationalist media will help us out as always ”.
Very predictable pish! Police would need another 40,000 new recruits to arrest ALL people that allegedly hurt someones fucking feelings! Tis the way social media is going, free speach will be dilutted beyond recognition to protect feelings. Im not even talking about hate speech practising people, just normal people who have strong opinions and are not handcuffed to pleasantries at all times.
What a paper thin society we now inhabit.
Stu, keep the chin up dear boy, all shall be well and never let the bastards drag ya down.
Sinky,
I recall a few years ago Deerin had a sappy, snowflake article in the Guardian which rightly got panned in the comments section. As part of a much longer comment I joked BT stood for Bitter Traitor. The next day that line, out of context, was in the Faily Wail shown as a harassing Tweet with the Twitter logo around it, as were other comments. I have no Twitter account.
I found the dishonesty revealing. I haven’t bothered with any subsequent Deerin pieces.
You can be sure there will be no BBC or MSM ‘journos’ arrested about ‘tweets’ in order to stop them telling the truth. Tory councillors can do and say as they like and it is not even reported – one law for the imperial masters and another for the rest of us. We are all behind you stu.
Stu, Ensure that you have a complete backup of all of your files in a secure place, indeed somewhere outside these sceptic isles.
Their next step will be to confiscate all of your machines as evidence, thereby shutting you down.
A tedious and predictable establishment tactic but pretty unpleasant just the same.
So sorry you’re having to put up with this. Never can say enough how valued and important Wings is and how much your hard work is appreciated.
Hope it gets sorted out quickly.
IMHO, state black operation. I thought they were cleverer than this?. How desperate they have become.
link to hudgellsolicitors.co.uk
Especially relevant if the police are making investigations after the fact as that would imply they didn’t have enough to actually charge you on.
Also
link to en.wikipedia.org
The National gets one more chance. If WGD is silenced on this issue tomorrow it is cancellation time for me.
Don`t know if Stu is a member of NUJ,(National Union of Journalists),
if he is I hope they are all over this with support financial and moral,
trying to silence a journalist by arrest and smear should be anathema to the NUJ.
Thank you, Rev, for the work you’ve done which has brought this unpleasantness down on you.
You are actually a National Treasure, as we all know.
I hope this doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. (He Lied)
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Chick McGregor@ 10.37
The wee Ginger dug is on holiday at the moment Chick.
So I would assume that he will have already submitted a piece for the National.
If that is what has happened,then he wouldn’t have known about this nonsense!
While it might be a move against Wings by the establishment it could just be a bitter and angry response to the realisation that some well deserved criticism has resulted in fewer gigs.
Of course I could be barking up the wrong tree.
Call the Police, I’ve been conned, robbed, hoodwinked!
And you Stuart are part of the plot, you posted an article, actually this one where you said a, and you were explicit in this, a “newspaper” namely “the Herald”, I will admit it’s been years since I held this organ, impressed it still is as long, most others have shrunk from the broadsheet format, but I digress, so on your insistence I entered my local purveyor of news and magazines and purchased said article, and for £1.35, yes £1.35 I expected to be intellectually stimulated by the best word craft, journalism in its zenith, instead I find I had a better time reading a email from MR Doctor General MD Smith who wished me to Bank some $1 million that was owed to me rightfully on the demise of my good friend and relation who has died suddenly in Iraq.
£1.35, are they taking the proverbial out of Proctor, £1.35 for that, in the name of all that’s holy, they didn’t even have the decency to put some advertisements in to break up the shear monotonous drivel. And the diary, the best that column could come up with is a fart joke, is this aimed at adolescents?
In fairness I did learn one thing, scripture text was prudent, “remember, Show you will never forget!” Well I wouldn’t would I £1.35 for that pile of shite, I won’t be forgetting that bloody liberty any day soon.
Didn’t take a lot of research on twitter to come across a name I recognise from previous twitter threads. I can’t remember what the argument was about but as soon as I saw the name I recognised an individual who was torn a new one due to her lies being called out. I suspect this is what’s behind it. Wings destroys unionists and they don’t like it. A real black ops effort by the yoon establishment. Nil Illegitimae Carborundum, Stu.
Sounds like an attempt to smear the Rev, all very Assange-esque, in my opinion.
I read the Herald article, it wasn’t very flattering with regards to the Rev, it included the same old shite, Hillsborough accusation. It also intimated that the Rev, has a foul mouth.
The National aside, I’ll not be buying anymore Newsquest publishings again.
The important thing, I suspect, was NOT the arrest of WoS. It now means every one of the f&&kers will write about WoS in the manner
“WoS, once arrested for abusing a woman, suggests xyz”
It’s a credibility thing.
Just a Co-Incidence that yesterday Tory Ministers were stating that they were going to increase penalties for online threats to same as physical threats. Sounds like an attempted stitch up to me. The fact that the Rev has kept the alleged offensive tweets online says to me that they are not threatening and this is just State sponsored harassment. To be honest have been expecting something like this or worse for a long time. Stay strong Rev, we are all with you 100%
Twas the Night Before GERSmas;
link to thecommongreen.scot
Just back to Wings after a sabbatical to cope with the loss of my wonderful little dog after 16 years together.
If you need finances Stu just let us know. It is typical that after probably abusing you to the maximum for years ,they now cry “foul” and try to shut you down. Your support is ,and always will be, as solid as a rock.
Stu, Sorry you are having to go through this attempted character assassination. It won’t wash with those who follow you on twitter or on Wings. Your tenacity in opening people’s eyes to the truth is extremely damaging to the unionist agenda.
For this to happen when you are forcing the media to print corrections and on the eve of a court case is highly suspect. As many have said, if you need a fundraiser, I’m in.
Irremediable ignorance
Posted on 22/08/2017 by Peter A Bell;
link to scottovoce.wordpress.com
Handshrimp @ 10.53
Either way,if they have used this to take his equipment.
Then they can go on a fishing trip to see who sends him stuff ect.
Or mibbi just try to get contact details for Rock to hire him for Scotland (no fur much longer) In Union.
Actually mibbi we should crowdfund and hire him to hangout on their website….. thanks for the inspiration Indy!
Surely the plod have better things to do than trawling through twitter looking for some trivial remark.
Any publicity is good publicity.
@HandandShrimp
Possibly.
Lenny Hartley @11.07. Me too.
As soon as I heard that on Pravdasound4 yesterday, I thought, “Well, we know where this is going, and it ain’t to retrospectively charge Ruthie’s nasty wee cooncillors.”
Coincidence?
Your choice, chinas.
Bob Mack @ 11.12
The only guarantee that ever comes with a dog,is that one day they will break your heart…
So sorry to hear about your wee dog.X
Awaiting the resumption of normal service.
Pob lwc \ good luck to you sir.
indy @ 9.03 am
Suggest you read the twitter feed on this page.
Are you aware of the laws of libel?
Nemo me impune lacessit
Warning, pure dead sad this article.
🙂
No one can decide if this Labour MP was really crying over Big Ben or taking the piss [VIDEO];
link to thecanary.co
“…at this time.” That sounds…interesting.
Please let it be SM.
Mentioned in dispatches on the Colonial Broadcasting Co. website.
Can someone help me out with this, please.
I don’t do Twitter and find it difficult to navigate through it, so I am blissfully unaware of the content of the tweet exchanges that have caused all this hoo-haa.
Is there anyway for someone to point me in the direction of the content without treading on legal landmines?
Thanks
Bob Mack says:
22 August, 2017 at 11:12 am
“Just back to Wings after a sabbatical to cope with the loss of my wonderful little dog after 16 years together.”
Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of your dog that was, after 16yrs, a member of your family.
auld highlander says:
22 August, 2017 at 11:21 am
Surely the plod have better things to do than trawling through twitter looking for some trivial remark.
It was illegal to swear in public and especially at cops up until 2011, in England at any rate, with an automatic £80 fine, if you did in ear shot of a cop. But it looks like its all on the judges, if there was an appeal.
I don’t know about anyone else, but the more crap like this I learn of, the more determined I am to see the back of this corrupt Establishment union.
Giving Goose @ 11.51
I don’t know that we should.
This is still Stu’s site….
Never read the Herald but will these tory gimps print stuff like this, that really is important? nah.
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
I’m with you100%+ Stu. This smacks of a witch hunt. Read the Herald as always this morning and cancelled my subscription with immediate effect. Tom G’s exclusive coupled with the recent crop of unbalanced opinion pieces has led me to this place. As with Andy_B above, I will not be buying any Newquest materials again, the National excepted.
Gosh – I’d better comment a bit more often if I’m going to make it onto that silly list – *raises eyes heavenward*
Just adding my highly valued presence to the river of support for The Rev and Wings and Scotland.
My money is on it being a particularly unhinged yoon journalist. And if it is who I think it is, I don’t think Stu has much to worry about.
Times, but Herald gimps go lone blogger smear campaigning instead.
August 22 2017, 12:01am,
The Times
The European Investment Bank, led by Werner Hoyer, has effectively imposed a moratorium on new long-term loans to Britain since Article 50 was triggered
The government is facing a multibillion-pound shortage of funding for new schools, hospitals and social housing after a decision by the world’s biggest public lender to freeze its UK operations because of Brexit.
The Times has learnt that the European Investment Bank, which financed £6.9 billion of public infrastructure projects in Britain last year, has effectively imposed a moratorium on new long-term loans to the UK.
The decision was taken after the government triggered Article 50 in March. Since then only three UK projects have had funding signed off and no projects have been financed since June.
In the first three months of the year the EIB approved nine projects worth a total of £1.4 billion.
The moratorium has been confirmed by sources within the bank and public sector institutions in the UK that had previously been beneficiaries of its loans, but it has not been formally announced.
Last month Philip Hammond said that he was working to ensure that EIB funding continued “while we are members of the EU on equal terms”.
Britain has a 16 per cent shareholding in the EIB, but it is an EU body so unless continued membership can be agreed in the Brexit negotiations the UK will pull out in 2019.”
What Maureen said – plus 1
Capella@12.02
Nail, head, hit.
I don’t do twatter or face plook, but do know Stu is one of the biggest threats to the establishment, (by basically calling them out on their daily mixture of lies, propaganda etc.) this is only the start.
Then again the establishment STILL DON’T GET IT.
Paula
Was likewise dismayed 🙁
What has a poor exuberant to do?
Exuberant?
Bloody autocorrect. I haven’t got the hang of this tablet thing yet.
Good point Liz.
But they better have something, tick tock.
The Missing shouty politician:
Ruth Davidson is the usually extremely vocal representative leader of the branch office of the Tory party government of occupation in Scotland and still refuses to answer questions over the reinstatement of councillors after racism and sectarian statements made by her party’s membership and officials
Where is the Tory leader of the Tory branch office in Scotland and why is she missing when the media demand to interview her, she must answer for her party and her decisions when Jackie Bird and David Mundell are also unavailable for comment
Does Ruth Davidson support racism, sectarianism and the Orange Lodge we must have answers, Scotland deserves the truth Ruth
We can handle it
Me – an exuberant, I really like that *all dances exuberantly*
First they came for Big Ben..
Sounds to me like the powers that be want to know the contents of Stu’s computer. Maybe we should all be a bit worried by this development.
Ruth may not like bigoted, reactionary racists but if she were to start kicking them out of her party she might find the membership somewhat depleted. Least said soonest mended seems to be her strategy.
Don’t think that is going to work.
Doug McGregor says:
“Maybe we should all be a bit worried by this development.”
WOT! WE, WORRY?
🙂
I am behind you Stu and await crowdfunded war chest launch.
I note that Nicola and Carwyn shall have a meet-up in Edinburgh today.
Link
link to uk.reuters.com
What we were expecting. You are the number 1 asset!
Now get back to work!
Fair play to the Herald, they have, at least, published a rejoinder from our Stu.,
link to archive.is
Though the Herald headline is still pretty damnable and has deja vu from Michelle Thomson MP.
Also WoS is occupying the number one AND number two spot at the Glasgow Herald. Maybes the Herald could learn something about proper journalism from Wings Over Scotland. I am fairly certain it is Stuart Campbell’s forensic style of reporting that has caused a reflected glow in the Herald’s click numbers.
🙂
Chic McGregor 10.37
My thoughts exactly.
7month-old baby pulled alive from rubble by firefighters after earthquake hits Italian holiday island of Ischia;
link to twitter.com
As someone once said – there’s no such thing as bad publicity!
Now is the time for Wingers to step up to the plate.
Stu takes a lot of hits on our behalf and for the cause of independence, so if it comes to funds or needs a demonstration on the streets(peaceful) we have to show that we are there for him as there is no doubt that he has become a target for the establishment.
This ‘silent terror’ could assume different forms, ranging from the secret night time arrest of prominent critics of the Anschluss (Union) to restrictions on postal privacy and press freedom.
Robert Gerwarth on Heydrich.
Well it was either this or an open attack on the website ,
This approach as was Kezias meant to cause lasting damage , association once the dogs get on to this the only lasting memory will be , oh wings and that Campbell guy , fill the innuendo laced reports yourself , as with the Thomson non story it will be left out there to grow legs , it dosent matter if its true or not thats not the point ,The point is the chinese whispers that will continue .
A defence against defamation is that the pursuer has no reputation to protect e.g has a criminal conviction. Now if I were a conspiracy theorist………
Have a Twitter account but clueless how to use it other than to retweet some things that pop up on my Facebook newsfeed. This smacks of a witch hunt against Stu and Wings – they must be worried!
Wishing you all the best Stu!
We all know what’s going on here. Short term aim / s to long term objective …. silence Wings. Stuart in the top ten of UK individuals deemed to be a threat to the State.
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@ Nana says at 7:52 am ……..
link to france24.com
I suppose we can all take it that the numerous people who have been harrassing Aamer Anwar (and the FM of Scotland) and in fact sending him death threats have been arrested? No word about Blair or Straw either?
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Just had a look at the Herald’s article. Comments section closed. Mr Gordon ensuring that no-one posts anything that may see him getting into legal hot water.
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Trump has changed his mind. He’s not pulling the troops out of Afghanistan after all. Breaking his election pledge. Imagine that! He’s now sending even more US troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban.
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Great article from Carolyn Leckie highlighting what an erse Douglas Alexander is in relation to his view of ‘nationalism.’
link to thenational.scot
@t42 12.17pm
“First they came for Big Ben”
Hahahahahahahaha 🙂
Excellent. Still chuckling!!
I see this is now up on the BBC News and Hootsman’s sites. Comments disabled everywhere.
In the Hootsman’s case this is probably a good thing. Their BTL comments sections are an absolute joke. Page after page of “under review” or “blocked by staff” comments and what little is left is mainly raging yoons, spouting easily countered garbage or whining the Nats are deleting their posts. Given that the BTL is almost exclusively an unchallenged Yoon roasterfest I’d have thought few others would bother commenting.
Whoever’s in charge of their site needs the Spanish Archer pronto.
Hopefully the instigator of this arrest is a certain heidcase – I’m sure the Rev will part with more info when it is legally safe/wise to do so.
I’ve always dreaded that, given the depths the State would plumb in the bad old days of empire, dirty tricks would be deployed – smears sexual & financial, a wee dark night Hit and Run, spot of staged autoerotic asphyxiation maybe. I have a dark mind under my tinfoil hat.
2 hrs ago
Michelle Mone hits back at online trolls, blaming Scottish referendum and SNP supporters;
link to archive.is
Own up, which one of you nasty nat’s has upset this poor wee lassie.
🙂
The ‘noble lie’ at the heart of BritState Unionism is that the democratic process snd the rule of law will inevitably come down on the side of the angels. It’s the myth the Victorians elaborated to promote the exceptional and unique qualities in the British imperialist worldview. So different from those swaggering continental show offs. Historically, that view is about as sound as Big Ben, a bell with a crack in it and now out of service for some years. An omen?
I suspect that many ‘old style’ nationalists actually do believe that by keeping pushing and keeping voting we will attain our justly merited goal. Rather like measures to check online hacking and those hackers being well ahead of the game and able to subvert any measures, the establishment initiatives re Scotland are well ahead of the political subversion and propaganda game thus putting those ballot box nationalists into the naïve corner to be played with at will.
As every people conquered by England and its successor state UKGB knows the dynamic lies way beyond the polling booth and the tidy textbook machinery of self-styled liberal and democratic parliamentary government. As those conquered peoples came quickly to realise in practice ‘the rules’, all that fairness stuff, don’t actually apply to them, therefore they have to confect their own.
Who wins depends on how much faith each has in its own set of ‘rules’. In our case we know BritState’s are fluid and self-serving, Britannia does wave the rules, but we have not yet established a standard for an alternative new set. We appear, or some do at least, to be still in thrall to the mystique of the old. The cure for that is a good dose of history and the confidence to show your arse in the face of such ‘exceptionalist’ conceit.
Hope this resolves quickly, but if the suits arrive in unmarked cars, this number might come in handy! Good luck.
020 7584 1367
Darkness at Noon.
t42 at 1217pm.
Congratulations, for posting the comment of the century. Well done. (quoted below, for those not seeing it earlier). Superb.
“First they came for Big Ben…”
So, in the interests of equality and even treatment, i have started a personal campaign of reporting online abuse by unionists.
I shall be doing this daily at a set time of day.
EVERY abusive post i find on Facebook (dont do twitter) WILL be reported to police if it meets a suitable criteria.
Lets have it fuckers…!!
The Rev’s story is not all bad and the fight back has started. The truth will out.
Dugdale’s case is not going away and I suspect other possible libel opportunities for the Rev are not very far away. 😉
This is also massive PR advertiseing for the WOS site – WOS will soon be as well known nationwide as the Beeb, everybody will want read it…! 🙂
Looks like the Herald has nothing else to report on, how very perochial. Nothing going on in the big bad world out there, no. Scotland, you just bury your head in the sand and we will tell you what to think, what is important, sweaty jocks!
Global, internationalist, ha ha, Scotland is just a little backwater, and insignificant* ( *it’s what a friend in Eng said to me just before the independence referendum in 2014).
What a disgrace, the whole thing. It was only a matter of time. It is of great concern when our citizens are bullied by the state, state run media and those working for them.
Scotland is also being bullied. With the onslaught of lies, the massive stolen resources, and land grabs, as well as power grabs on the horizon.
Good to see so much support for Stuart, the real journalist. Something is very bad in the UK, when so called journalists working for the daily rags and making up stories piped into living rooms 24/7, display faux outrage and faux harassment, but who lie for the state. When bigots are in positions of power, and the media ignore it, but they harass someone who is calling out the corruption, we are in very dangerous territory indeed.
Smallaxe at 1109am,
I hope you don’t mind, but i thought it useful to re-post your link to the poem about GERS. A rather excellent piece of poetry, every yoonionist should read.
link to thecommongreen.scot
This ones smells like a ‘Michele Thompson’ episode, colossal coverage for nothing whatsoever.
Smear me another, oh great BritMaster
What odds will anyone give me on the person behind this complaint being a certain London based Scottish journo?
So now we see the ‘British Unionist Establishment’ in full flow. They simply cannot have an ordinary member of the public expose the unionist decades of lies and deceit about Scotland. It might lead to independence and democracy for Scotland. They WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. They own Scotland. It is theirs. How dare the people of Scotland take it away from them.
Interesting timing.
I just noticed an excellent post from oor Dave (McEwan Hill) in the letters page of the National … ‘Timing of leaflet flurry was clearly no co-incidence.’ I wonder if I missed it being posted on here? Add to that a number of posts rebutting BBC Ian Small’s comments and highlighting that BBC Scotland is to say the least ‘woeful’. As one example:
link to thenational.scot
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Did anyone see the recent ‘Who do you think you are’ programme featuring Lulu? If not it’s well worth a watch, if you can find it! It seems to be the only ‘(youtube) video not available in this country’ in relation to that particular programme. I also see that you’ve got to sign in to access BBC iPlayer now!
Anyway it’s a story about her Roman Catholic grandfather marrying her Protestant grandmother. All about the religious divide in Glasgow. Her grandfather is faced with a major problem and that is that his mother-in-law is the Worthy Grand Mistress of the OO.
What’s really insightful when watching this is that her RC grandfather, with all he had to contend with, is deemed to be a ‘wrong ‘un” and her GG grandmother is wonderful. No idea either, seemingly?, of the links between the Police and the OO and who they targeted for ‘picking up.’ I’d imagine that he would be top of their list and would get the full ‘treatment’ whilst in custody.
Her grandmother dies aged 31 and is buried with her mother. Lulu sees this as them united in death …. ”there is a bond that wasn’t broken.” It’s clear that her grandmother didn’t have any say in the matter and that her grandfather’s only option was a pauper’s grave for her.
I’m posting this link but it doesn’t show how thrilled Lulu was when she found out about her GG grandmother’s links to the OO … big grin on her face. ”Lulu is gathering an image of her great grandmother – a fearless woman and strong leader.” Sad that she doesn’t seem to have the capacity either to empathise with her relatives … grandmother and grandfather …. put herself in their shoes at that particular time in history.
link to thegenealogist.co.uk
Yer ah right pain in the arse Rev, tae the british establishment & the corporate media , they will try & take you down by any means & that wont be by fair means , but as we’ve come to expect by foul means .
DONT LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN
Im 100% in your corner , as im sure all Wingers are .
Timing is inline with current campaign against Scottish independence also to undermine positive announcements by the Scottish Government.
The brave few that take on the press and establishment I dare say are subject to events many of us do not know about and would find alarming in our day to day lives.
Without a site like Wings, I worry what the press and opposition could get away with. Wings will never provide full redress, but it provides an important channel to publicise the news imbalance and bias (more bluntly put lies) that others can read, judge and pass on. Those that read and comment on Wings pass on to the many who believe bbc and papers are truthful. Wings challenges their beliefs and hopefully opens their eyes.
Wimgs offends the bbc and press, how dare an upstart challenge them, they are part of the establishment, the elite, above suspicion or the merest whiff of any impropriety. That what this is about!
Don’t let the them grind you down, come out fighting!
I came to this party relatively late, just before Sept ’14. I really don’t remember how I found WoS but I’m very glad that I did, it furnished me with lots of much needed, difficult to find elsewhere, facts and info to use in my meagre pursuit of self determination.
I don’t know Stu Campbell, we have never met, I admit to a little frisson of excitement, when I have occasionally stepped out of my comfort zone of lurker and made a comment and had it replied to or even commented on.
We must, obviously take WoS blog site and twitter account as entirely separate entities, The blog is,(to my mind) in the main a serious and well put together discourse on the state of Scottish affairs as reported in the media.
The twitter account(once again, my perception only) is a free for all melee, with all the rough and tumble that it brings.Wings is unquestionably robust, sometimes irritable but always on point.
I have read a lot of unionist blogs, twitter accounts and articles, and when I started I was struck by the downbeat bitterness and bad mouthing of the unionist side and the more humorous upbeat articles of the independence supporters.
There are, of course nutters on both sides, it may just be me but unionist nutters seem to be especially lacking in self awareness.
I hope that this little episode is merely a glitch and that normal service will be restored shortly, my heartfelt good wishes and staunch support goes out to Stu and all the wingers everywhere.
Keep going Stu they are pooping it they know you are as dangerous as I.F. Stone was in his day.
JockG
Nae odds ;D
Lobey Dosser only had to contend with Rank Bajin.
Wings has to put up with Bajin Mc something or other (it rhymes but don’t want ‘hammered’ for mentioning the name).
There was a couple of interesting articles in the National yesterday relating to Alex Salmond in discussion with Brian Cox (Indyref is coming) and Neil Lennon at his fringe show.
One comment stood out:
‘Discussing the Press, Lennon explained that his former manager Gordon Strachan described the difference between managing in England and managing in Scotland.
He said, ”Dealing with the English is like swimming with dolphins and dealing with the Scottish press is like swimming with sharks.’ And don’t we know it!
Just incase folk don’t know who I.F.Stone was.
part 1
part 2
Sorry to hear this Rev and I also support you all the way.
Will be happy to contribute to a crowd fund if necessary to fight any case.
I will never now read any article on the Herald and the extremely belated report on the missing oil money from the SH makes more sense, we wont be fooled into support for them.
They could have written that ages ago.
Angus MacNeil said that also, he’d been reading about it for months on social media.
You have powerful enemies and we know who most of them are
@ Peter Craig says at 2:11 pm …. ”I don’t know Stu Campbell, we have never met, I admit to a little frisson of excitement, when I have occasionally stepped out of my comfort zone of lurker and made a comment and had it replied to or even commented on….”
GREAT post Peter and hope that in replying to you, you once again get that ”little frisson of excitement, LOL.”
High time you stepped out of your comfort zone more often Peter. Don’t lurk. Join in. You know you’ll be made welcome.
From the BBC website:
“Stuart Campbell was arrested in the west of England on Friday following a complaint from a woman in south London.
She had made allegations of harassment taking place over a two-year period…”
…””The allegation was made after a woman, aged in her 30s, attended a south London police station. The harassment is said to have taken place over the past two years.””
Not too difficult to work out the harassed (allegedly) one’s identity… “woman”, “in her 30s”, “south London”….
Twitter history’n’aw that.
Pathetic.
Keep kicking at the pricks, Stu.
Robert Louis says:
22 August, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Smallaxe at 1109am,
“I hope you don’t mind,”
I don’t mind in the slightest, Robert, I’m delighted, after all, we are pooling and sharing.
link to thecommongreen.scot
🙂
Its come to this.This blog is the most important tool we have in our fight against this undemocratic union.One side is scrutinized while the other side gets of scot-free.
This smells of the same tactic re the two SNP mps who had to resign the whip and hang around with allegations over their heads for over a year.The police investigation will go at snail pace while the media slings the mud.
Michelle Thompson was not, as far as I’m aware either arrested or taken in for questioning.
Nor is it helpful to point the finger at online abuse aimed at SNP and other indy supporters in this issue as that will be construed as a kind of turn about is fair play agreement that Wings is himself guilty of abusing others.
I see Severin has come to the party very late, does he not get out bed before 2pm?
Time for solidarity with the Rev, Forward Together March and Rally in Dunfermline is on this SATURDAY, make it MASSIVE. End London Rule!
Peter Craig says: (Petra beat me to it)
“There are, of course nutters on both sides, it may just be me but unionist nutters seem to be especially lacking in self awareness.
See “indy”, Peter he’ll show you how to make a list.
Come in, Come In, it’s nice tae see ye!Peter, Welcome.
I have often wondered why this particular little sand box has for the most part been left alone, I came to the conclusion it was allowed to continue in order to keep an eye on its contents and contributing followers , all the Indy supporters in one easily accessed location.
This wholly different approach is a little baffling, I would have thought the more sensible sections of the security services would have had that approach continue, unless something has happened, something has changed that has made them feel the need to act , does this one site really threaten them so much .
This site along with all other Indy supporting sites are always under investigation even just to test the water and gauge how the wind is blowing, its to prevent them being caught off guard.
A message to the watchers ‘ Who’s watching you watching us ? . ‘ You will never know .
Graf Midgehunter said at 1:41 pm today:
“……This is also massive PR advertiseing for the WOS site – WOS will soon be as well known nationwide as the Beeb, everybody will want read it…!”
Agree totally with your sentiments Graf,remembering of course to keep everything polite and measured in response.
We follow that simple rule always and the people here in Scotland will be the winners.
New people will be visiting Wings in the hours and days ahead.
Carwyn who?
Carwyn Jones is the Labour FM of Wales, I mention that because not everyone has ever heard of him although most folk have heard of Wales
Wales voted FOR Brexit but now appears to be suffering from an attack of brain catch up now that they’ve realised it’s not a good thing, so to that end Mr Jones is representing his country by joining forces with Scotlands completely unknown FM Nicola Sturgeon, and I mention that because even though Scotlands FM is world famous and widely respected, apparently in the UK Mr Jones is a far more important figure in UK politics even though as I mentioned many people haven’t a Scooby who he is
It makes me think could it be because Mr Jones is a Labour person his words are preferred to those of Ms Sturgeon or could it be because he’s a man or could it be because he’s FOR Brexit and that’s a UK good thing as opposed to Scotlands world famous and widely respected First Minister who doesn’t, or could it be, God forbid that the British media is so biased against the SNP and all that they stand for even with all irrefutable evidence that Ms Sturgeon has been 100% correct on all issues Brexit related so far
Still nothing she says matters
Countries around the world notice this stuff yet still the Inglish government claim they’re respected, are they deaf in Inglind, I can hear the rest of the world laughing from here
Hammer of the Scots Severin’s on it now.
“Wings over Scotland blogger arrested for alleged harassment
Stuart Campbell detained in Bath after woman complained of online harassment over past two years”
Very smear laden, but it is nice of tory Graun’s sneaky shits to have gone out of their way and actually reported at least something newsworthy about its Scotland region, other than their perennial SNP bad themes.
And Graun’s flogged at lefty progressives too. Aint no hypocrite like a Graun reader.