The Pillars Of Sanity
For the combatants in the gender wars, it’s been quite a spring and summer here in the TERF Island theatre of battle.
In February, polling company YouGov revealed the vast extent to which public opinion has shifted around the issue (significantly though not entirely in the wake of the Cass Review last April), which we reported on via a snazzy Stalingrad metaphor. But just as with Stalingrad, it was only the precursor to the recapture of territory on an epic scale.
So let’s recap what we’ve won and what it means.
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16 APRIL 2025 – VICTORY #1
Arguably (we’ll come to that later) the most crucial victory of them all was of course the Supreme Court ruling in favour of For Women Scotland, establishing – or rather more accurately, reaffirming – the meaning of sex in law.
The ramifications of the FWS judgment started cascading down through the real world immediately, most visibly (though by no means exclusively) in sport, and continue to do so despite the increasingly hysterical protests of the trans lobby, led by the alarmingly unhinged fox-battering KC Jolyon Maugham of the self-aggrandisingly-named Good Law Project, not uncoincidentally the father of two trans children.
(These changes followed on from other sports who’d been ahead of the curve and had already altered their policies to reinstate and protect fairness for women, like rugby and aquatics and cycling.)
But as great a triumph as FWS was, more were to come.
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16 APRIL 2025 – VICTORY #2
Later the same day as the FWS ruling, this site was itself at the centre of a High Court judgment described by the Solicitors Journal as “pivotal” and a “landmark ruling” for free speech, when we defeated disgraced ex-policeman Lynsay Watson‘s attempts to force Greater Manchester Police to arrest us over comments on Twitter.
We covered the full background and events of the story here, but the important fact is that the court’s decision sets a precedent protecting the Article 10 rights of anyone commenting on trans issues – even in very sensitive cases like the brutal murder of trans-identifying teenager Brianna Ghey – on social media, regardless of how offended transactivists claim to be about them.
The days when police forces across the UK acted as pet goon squads for every misogynist incel with a grudge, putting scores of innocent people through “the process is the punishment” hell for months and years on the back of spurious and malicious accusations, are now effectively over.
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4 JULY 2025 – VICTORY #3
Two weeks ago, barrister Allison Bailey, co-founder of the LGB Alliance and previously (and indeed currently) at the centre of a lawsuit against Stonewall and her own chambers – secured the first ever actual court judgement under the Equality Act’s provision against discrimination in the supply of goods or services.
(Which applies to gender-critical beliefs in the wake of Forstater vs CGD Europe.)
Numerous similar previous cases – such as Joanna Cherry’s against comedy club The Stand – had been settled before reaching court, but Bailey’s was the first to go all the way and result in a decision that will set a standard for any that follow, acting as a further deterrent to would-be discriminators.
(Just a couple of weeks before Bailey’s win, Wings had succeeded in one such claim against a local firm of accountants who’d denied us service on account of our gender beliefs, but who conceded unconditionally and settled in full before it got to court, apologising and paying a four-figure sum in compensation.)
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16 JULY 2025 – WIN #4
Somewhat overshadowed by the extraordinary farce of the Sandie Peggie tribunal and the incredible meltdown of NHS Fife, this week saw a ruling that in this site’s opinion may turn out to have even more dramatic effects than that of the Supreme Court.
Newcastle United fan and season-ticket holder Linzi Smith was banned by the club in October 2023 after a complaint was made about her gender-critical beliefs. She hadn’t even expressed them in the stadium, but the club stalked her, investigated her social media history, banned her for breaching their “Diversity And Inclusion” policy and reported her to to the police for potential hate crime.
The club’s ban remains in place but in March this year the police apologised.
Admirably, though, Smith wouldn’t leave it there, and went to court alleging that their actions had not only been wrong but motivated by improper and unlawful bias, citing Northumbria Police (and in particular its Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine) over its participation in Pride marches and open support of gender ideology.
On Wednesday a judge agreed with her.
The judge’s findings were utterly, brutally and comprehensively scathing of the force’s actions, and merit extensive quoting. (The Chief Constable is “The Defendant”.)
(Below are some slogans from the march which Jardine found “uncontroversial”.)
We cannot see a way in which ANY public body festooning itself in pride flags and loudly proclaiming its “allyship” and allegiance to a toxically divisive movement and belief system like gender ideology could possibly survive a legal challenge on the basis of the ruling. All public bodies have a duty of impartiality, and Mr Justice Linden absolutely annihilated the idea that the promotion of “Pride” and its related views was compatible with that duty.
Northumbria Police immediately withdrew permission for officers to participate in any official capacity in the 2025 Northern Pride march, taking place today.
It also announced the removal of Pride livery from all police vehicles.
Within hours – Glasgow Pride is also today – Police Scotland had followed suit.
Though not everyone got the memo in time.
But any public entity which wants to ram trans flags and the like down the throats of its service users from here on will run into the same brick (not stone) wall.
The trickle of withdrawals from Pride will turn into a flood.
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18 JULY 2025 – WIN #5
The body charged with issuing guidance on the implementation of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has come under sustained attack from transactivists ever since the ruling.
Its chair, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, is standing down, and her chosen replacement Mary-Ann Stephenson had been subjected to an extremely hostile and unprecedented interrogation earlier this month by transactivist MPs on the Women and Equalities Select Committee and the Joint Committee On Human Rights.
However, last night the minister responsible, Bridget Phillipson, overruled the two committees’ rejection of Stephenson for the job, despite the fact that Phillipson herself had previously been very trans-sympathetic, in another signal that the government knows which way the wind is blowing.
The decision followed Labour announcing its acceptance of biological sex as the determinant for all women-related matters a few days earlier, leaving the SNP isolated as the only party of government anywhere in the UK still refusing to meaningfully accept or implement the Supreme Court’s ruling.
But in woke-captured Scotland too, ordinary citizens are making the courts drag their politicians kicking and screaming to compliance with the law, and we can be sure that armed with the FWS and Smith rulings many more will do so if need be, and will win.
We haven’t even covered the latest developments in the Sandie Peggie story yet, partly because they’ve been so deranged it’s hard to know where to start.
But based on what’s transpired in the last three days in Dundee, we strongly suspect that the tribunal will also toss a bagful of hand grenades into the suffocating quagmire of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” culture that made the life of a nurse of 30 years’ dedicated service a wretched misery for 18 months, as well as wasting untold millions of pounds of Scottish taxpayers’ money on scores of vastly overpaid non-jobs in which brainless idiots earn twice the salary of actually-useful people for doing nothing of any value to anyone.
(And all too often, even doing that with jaw-dropping incompetence. NHS Fife released its catastrophically ill-advised statement insisting it hadn’t assumed any wrongdoing by Sandie Peggie after a day in court which had revealed its senior staff in charge of the matter circulating emails which had already found her guilty and sided completely with transgender doctor Beth Upton before the investigation had even begun. By the time it concluded, under public scrutiny, she was grudgingly cleared on all charges.)
When taken together, however, the five watershed events detailed in this article have systematically detonated every one of the fundamental props supporting the capture of civic society in the UK by gender ideology.
FWS set the biological definition of sex into law. Our case enshrined the protection of free speech on trans issues. Allison Bailey ended the ability of organisations and businesses to discriminate against the gender-critical. Linzi Smith struck a deathblow to the infestation of every public body in the land with homophobic “Queer Theory” and enforced allegiance to it. And the confirmation of Mary-Ann Stephenson should ensure that the FWS judgment is fully implemented without fudging or backsliding.
The war is not yet over. While some will concede with the best grace they can muster, entities like the Good Law Project and a whole raft of activist “charities” and quangos lavishly funded by the Scottish Government will fight bitterly against reality for as long as they can in the name of self-preservation and their revenue streams.
But just as with the German army after Stalingrad, the die is cast and all they can do is slightly postpone the inevitable. The women (and men) who wouldn’t wheesht have won, and when the history books about the gender madness are written, the spring and summer of 2025 will be recorded as the time it all changed forever.
Stu, congratulations to you. You fought these people all the way and can now rejoice.
Fine writing and a fine effort more generally.
You should come back up to Scotland and put yourself forward for election. I don’t believe in everything you believe in and it is high time that natural occurrence is accepted once again as 100% normal between any two human beings (even those from the same country). The important thing is that we have trained (in this case journalism) honest people who will ALWAYS give their honest take on the issues of the day. How much healthier politics would be. It would kill cults, corrupt politicians, even empires stone dead.
Absolutely excellent article Rev Campbell.
I salute you for your dogged determination in bringing this perversion to light and continuing to highlight it year on year.
I am so relieved that that has been seen to be done by yourself and many other wonderful campaigner (you know who you are) and change is occurring and indeed happening more quickly than I anticipated.
I am relieved and much happier for the women and girls in my family and the female friends I have, all of whom will never vote for the disgusting SNP ever again.
Transwomen are MEN and always fucking will be.
Hear, hear, Jon.
Most satisfying article you’ve ever written Stu?
Huge debts of thanks are owed to the few brave individuals (including your good self!) who whether willingly or by necessity fought against this tsunami of regressive unreason, misogyny and homophobia.
We have TRA extremism hamstrung: time to deliver the coup de grace!
Good to see the late, great David Graeber quoted. I have often wondered where Graeber, as a prominent left libertarian, stood on the sex v gender issue, but as far as I can tell he steered well clear of the whole mess.
One line that sums up the entire debacle is
“We haven’t even covered the latest developments in the Sandie Peggie story yet, partly because they’ve been so deranged it’s hard to know where to start.”
However deranged this week has been, I have every faith that next week will be the gift that keeps on giving. Though NHS Fife did break Michael Foran the most measured legal chap on the internet as he tweeted –
“Sweet Jesus. Just. Stop. DIGGING”
Well done Rev. So it’s Operation Citadel. We know how well that worked out for the Wermacht.
Monday to-do list;
Visit Charity shops and complain about Trans flags. Demand to speak to the manager. It’s going to be a busy week.
Great work from all concerned.
Any idea when we will start jailing all the transallies for all the harm they’ve caused ?
Obviously, I’m a lot less interested in this than Shirley Anne Somerville or Nicola Sturgeon.
Brilliant !!
Well done Stu.
I note that various press are stating that Swinney and NHS should put an end to the Sandie Peggie Tribunal case.
The simple fact is that only Sandie can end the case – either by accepting a settlement or by withdrawal of the action. She is wise to do neither because by continuing the case NHS Fife is being torn apart by their own pathetic witnesses. Their whole procedural errors are being exposed for everyone to see – and that is the outcome that Sandie wants.
There are plenty of legal types on X saying that NHS Fife can totally end this right now by basically throwing in the towel; closing their defence and letting the judgement go to Sandy.
I suspect that they hope that judgement will go against Sandy even on just one minor and relatively unimportant part of her case, then they can emerge triumphant, holding aloft the straw clutched from the hay bale, and telling the waiting media that they WON. Jolyolyon GLP style.
@ Kelpie
If they withdraw their defence then it becomes a default judgment and every point raised by the clamant (Sandie Peggie) succeeds.
Any evidence previously heard is disregarded as irrelevant.
@Kelpie – you are exactly right, that is definitely what they are planning to do
I think that Nurse Peggie’s side want this to go to the wire so that every other NHS board and every other public institution get the message. Even if they were to lose now, which is unlikely, the exposure to the light that this ideology has never wanted, is complete. It won’t go away today our tomorrow, because these people and their adherents are some of the most viciously inept ever, but the trickle will become a flood soon enough.
Lorn says:
“….. the exposure to the light that this ideology has never wanted, is complete. “
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The exposure to the light of Count Dracula in the 1958 Hammer film sees the vampire crumble into dust before being blown away.
That is an image that fits the blood suckers of TRANS ideology: as its authors’ worst nightmare-exposure to public view- is realised.
Next: get the creeps away from kids in schools .
Sturgeon: “There are people who have opposed this Bill that cloak themselves in women’s rights to make it acceptable, but just as they’re transphobic you’ll also find that they’re deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well.”
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She will be remembered forever for saying that. And can never undo or reverse it.
It looks to me that the whole of Civic Scotland licks the gravy one way or another.
Meanwhile, at Pride Glasgow this morning, we could see on open and ‘proud’ display the extent of capture of corporate Scotland by this movement. Not only of the commercial sector (numerous banks retailers and even distillers) but more egregiously of the public sector.
Represented with branded banners, I identified
– The Scottish Civil Service,
– Greater Glasgow NHS
– Lanarkshire NHS
– Scotrail
– Glasgow Life (wholly owned by Glasgow CC)
– Scottish Water
– The Fire Service
… as well as a mixed bag of quangos (photos of all available).
Given this week’s judgement against Northumbria Police, how can any public body be allowed to voice or endorse such partial support for Pride while so many of us are gender critical.
In particular, the NHS which given what we have see of NHS Fife in the Sandie Peggie case this week clearly cannot be trusted to treat people who don’t buy into the cult fairly (patients and employees alike).
As a matter of strict law the Northumbria Police judgement does not apply in Scotland since the jurisdiction of the English High Court stops at the border. If somebody were to take, say, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to court on the same point the Scottish court would undoubtedly look at the Northumbria Police case and hopefully find it “persuasive” but unless and until we have a judgment from the Court of Session on the issue we cannot be certain.
Yes, I undertood that this is the case. But thankfully, Police Scotland, reacted to the E&W ruling anyway.
BTW, I checked extensively during the march and couldn’t see a single police officer sporting pride ‘branding’. Hopefully, we will now never have test this with Police Scotland in a Scottish court.
But I would dearly love to see an NHS board tested on this in the Scottish courts. How about NHS Fife for starters and entertainment value? We would get to see the estimable Ms Bumba in action again.
Thank you for these facts, Robert Mellish. It is appalling that the Scottish Civil Service is officially present – not that there is a Scottish Civil Service – when I was a civil servant there were strict rules on public engagement with politics. Surely nothing is more political than official presence at a sexual preferences event when there are ongoing legal cases and Scottish “government” mired in the controversy?
And 2 NHS trusts? Fire Service? Scotrail? Scottish Water? They must be out of their minds and are clearly not fit for their posts.
Thanks your kindness. As I’m retired and alarmed by all the gender nonsense in Scotland, I plan to monitor all related events (Pride, Stonewall etc to gather facts….partly in the hope that the good Rev will use ’em and my photos. But also to help a Greater Glasgow action group to hopefully form over time. This is where I live. Wings published a photo of the TQ+ Pride flag displayed at the entrance at the QEUH. I am made unhappy at frequently having to walk past it.
And the hits keep coming.
Great article (and many thanks to the author!). Each and every victory an occasion to cheer.
I am especially pleased that the next EHRC chair replacement will be Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson. Her vast experience will prove invaluable in ensuring that there is no dilution or misunderstanding of the Supreme Court ruling.
A widna haud ma breith on any UK state quango protecting the rights of Scots, though she may learn something about structural inequality and genuine self-governance from this:
link to jpti.ch
@Alf – but isn’t that exactly what has happened, look at who are the hero’s in this story. The U.K. Supreme Court, the EHRC.
Also, what news from the UN? Can you post some of the correspondence you’ve had?
@ Alf
“On 8 December 2023, the Outer House of the Court of Session, part of Scotland’s highest civil court, ruled that the UK government had acted lawfully in blocking the enactment of the Scottish government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.”
In the colonial situation there is only colonial governance: which implies “a government and a judicial system fed and renewed by the colonizer’s historic, economic and cultural needs” (Memmi), and aye serving the wrang croun. This includes the co-opted national party elite and their appointments.
@Alf – how does that relate specifically to the comments raised?
UKSC, Court of Session and ScotGov and other state institutions all serve the English (as British) Crown, i.e. they do not serve sovereign Scots.
“Scotland’s current status is best understood not as that of a constituent unit within a unitary or federal state, but as that of a modern colony administered by an external and unaccountable center of power” (JPTi)
Alf: whatever else we say about The Jack block on the Gender woo woo bill, that is what the law demanded. He was perfectly within legal parameters precisely because use the legislation was contradicting already well-established UK law (that is, laws that are enacted throughout the UK). Now, you and many others may interpret that as using the heavy hand of ‘colonialism’, but he saved the bacon of Scotland’s women that the SNP, Greens, Lib Dems, Labour, were more than happy, along with many others, to sacrifice. That is fact. It doesn’t suit the narrative, but it is legal fact – and moral probity in the face of utter misogyny such as we have not with witnessed for over a hundred years.
Meanwhile I am really enjoying watching the beautiful talented women playing in the EURO’s 25 without seeing big bollocked men knocking 7 bells of them.
Well done Stuart, you’ve been in this fight for a long time and it’s nice to see the outcome now.
It’s plainly obvious to any person with a few brain cells that a man can NEVER become a woman. It’s been like one flew over the cuckoos’ nest. NHS Fife should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and there’s quite a few heads need to roll. Absolutely disgraceful that health professionals should behave like this.
Wonder when slimey Swinney will fall into line or will Sturgeon still pull his strings from behind. He is not fit to be First Minister and should resign, ah but they don’t do that now do they.
Somewhere, over the rainbow… there is a happy land of sanity where children and women, and their supporters, can live without fear of losing all quality of life.
Rev, you have been dragged through the mill so many times just because you refuse to abandon the truth. You really are a marvel.
As someone else has already suggested, you are the kind of person we need in Holyrood. How about it?
DEI Diversity Equality Inclusivity is an absolute and utter con, created by the woke by the woke. DEI must DIE!!!
Well done to everybody who refused to accept and challenged this woke fascism and to the deserved victories you have gained.
Now dismiss all people who do these useless jobs and don’t know simple biological fact.
As I’m making this comment I am watching a Bruce Springsteen concert I recorded he is performing Waiting on a sunny day looks like it will soon come for the opponents of this intolerance.
Great piece, Rev. I do hope that you, with all the other people who placed their heads above the parapet will be remembered in history for standing up to this new form of misogyny.
However, while I agree that the bad ship ‘trans’ has been holed below the waterline, although it will not sink immediately, the rest of the ‘woke’ pile of steaming dung is still causing problems. ‘Intersectionality’, as it is called in academic circles, is still rife, and everything is blamed on some characteristic – skin colour, language, etc. Other woke nonsense is still circulating, too.
We simply cannot afford to give unstable, even psychopathic, people leadership positions and unlimited power to do harm to others by claiming all kinds of discriminations that are, often, seated in the perception of the ‘victim’ rather than having any sense of external reality. Other things, like net zero, are impossible to achieve. We are so distracted by nonsense that we are not seeing from where the real threats are coming.
This stuff will destroy our society if we are not willing to face it down and stop giving it power over our lives. It is like the Hydra: cut off one head and more grow. It requires a stake through the heart to finish it – no sentiment, no sympathy, no empathy. It is far too dangerous and detrimental to our social, economic and political health to afford it any mercy.
One thing, though, that will have to happen after this ‘trans’ guff is defeated: just why have so many young women, and women, in general, been so take in by this utterly deranged ideology? That would be a course of investigation and study well worth a bursary and scholarship. It’s just too simplistic to suggest that females are more empathetic, although that is part of it. It is also too simplistic to offer the explanation that females are biologically driven to support males, though there may be truth in that, too.
Personally, and it is just my opinion, a lot of it has to do with many females loathing other women – far beyond rivalry – and especially older women. It must be internalized misogyny, to an extent, but it is more than that, even. It is as if many – not all – young women and girls of the last couple of generations deeply and unforgivingly resent and hate what they see as their fate as exemplified by their mothers and grandmothers; and that can come only from deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy as to what a woman has to be to exist in society at all, coupled with the forcing into the societal straitjacket from which their mothers and grandmothers, especially their grandmothers, have escaped.
The epidemic of body mutilation – cosmetic surgery – demanded by young women and girls stands testament to the truth that they are both conforming to societal expectations of them as females, while, at the same time, their inner rage cannot be chained forever and is being directed at older women who no longer follow, or never have followed, slavishly, the stereotypical expectations that imprison them.
I believe, and have believed since about 2015, that we are actually witnessing, ironically, a new ‘suffragette’ movement, a new female emancipation awareness that will spread outwards to encompass the entire world, and which will be unstoppable because what we have now no longer works for any of us, female or male, or for any society and world order. Threatening women with retribution or trying to take over their actual sex if they don’t obey and go back in their box, will only make matters worse and hasten the inevitable. This particular revolution will take some time, but it is already happening even as we speak.
Dear Rev,
I’m pleased that your “report of victories” got a first-class response from all your fans! It must take a huge amount of work in compiling such “reports”.
The ghosts of Nicola Sturgeon, Shirley-Anne Somerville etc must still deck the halls of the NewSNP ScotGov.
I note that the SG has NOT still issued statutory, commonsense instructions to all its departments, affiliates or gender idealogues throughout Scotland. In fact, cash still seems to be funding the “anti-two sexes” lobby groups which support them! SHAME ON John Swinney and Kate Forbes.
SANITY RULES ON “WINGS”!
Come on, Campbell. You just canny help yourself, son. Let it go. This bullshit is yesterdays propaganda, lad!
Yup, you keep supporting the Nonce Party and all their deviant ideology.
Way to go Andrew…
Leave the kids alone.
16 APRIL 2025 – VICTORY #1
Arguably (we’ll come to that later) the most crucial victory of them all was of course the Supreme Court ruling in favour of For Women Scotland, establishing – or rather more accurately, reaffirming – the meaning of sex in law.
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I would say that this was the #1
“The use of Section 35 of the Scotland Act to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
On 8 December 2023, the Outer House of the Court of Session, part of Scotland’s highest civil court, ruled that the UK government had acted lawfully in blocking the enactment of the Scottish government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.”
balance is restored to the force
link to youtube.com
“The days when police forces across the UK acted as pet goon squads for every misogynist incel with a grudge, putting scores of innocent people through “the process is the punishment” hell for months and years on the back of spurious and malicious accusations, are now effectively over.”
Whilst that is certainly the case in regard to…..
“putting scores of innocent people through “the process is the punishment” hell for months and years on the back of spurious and malicious accusations”
…..on behalf of……
“every misogynist incel with a grudge”
…..it is certainly not the case generally. All that has happened is that police forces across the country have merely switched targets when it comes to the misuse of lawfare.
Certainly, if what is described in the frame quoted in the above article in regard to paragraph 42 of the Linzi Smith case against Northumbria police occurred at this year’s event every single individual would be immediately arrested on terrorism charges and would likely be facing the potential prospect of up to fourteen years incarceration.
The National barely mentions the Sandie Peggie case but yesterday published:
“Sandie Peggie denies making racist comment as new allegation emerges”
link to thenational.scot
It is of course a negative article about Sandie but I notice:
” Witnesses Dr Elspeth Pitt, a consultant in emergency medicine, and Louise Curran, a senior charge nurse and Peggie’s line manager, gave evidence on Friday.
Pitt was the first person to see Dr Beth Upton after her altercation with Peggie, while Curran gave insight into Peggie’s character.”
Upton, Pitt and Curran are correctly described with their titles and job role. Sandie is just reffered to as “Peggie”.
This happens througout the article.
Notice also that Upton is described as “she” despite having a cock and bollocks.
The National is a disgrace as a national newspaper. Its pages are in vested with ‘trans’ dogma and its support of independence carried only as far as the SNP, and, even then, only some of the SNP. It is partisan and disgraceful. It wouldn’t recognize truth if it bit it on the bum.
What nobody seems to have remarked upon is the fact that, had Sandy Peggie not been one helluva strong lady, had she not stood up to her employers and that man claiming to be a woman, she would have been out on her ear.
She would have lost her job, probably had her pension reduced and lost other emoluments, would have been unable to find another job within the NHS and her reputation would have been destroyed utterly.
They are still trying to destroy her because she fought back against a policy that was illegal from start to finish well before the UKSC ruling. Her employers breached the work regulations, too, and her union deserted her.
This is the kind of of sh*t that women have had to put up with forever. All those fellow women who threw her to the wolves in favour of a man who pretended to be a woman and who would have been treating female patients, is so counter-intuitive and downright vicious and cruel that it is hard to find the words to describe them.
Sorry, but stupidity is only a tiny part of it: a shared belief system that had no basis in law, but which demanded – did not ask, but demanded and compelled – that women strip in front of this man. Nobody even bothered to find out what the law was, so captured and smug in their own virtue-signalling were they.
Nobody – none of her superiors, not her union, not the board, not HR or DEI – thought it even unfair for her to be treated in this way. Now, they are hoist by their own petard. They wanted to destroy one nurse for not bending the knee to what is a form of madness. Now they are discovering just how she felt, except that their ignominy is richly deserved for their vicious, illegal cruelty in trying to force her to change in a toilet while this man remained in the FEMALE changing room.
Massive kudos to you, Lorn, not only for your ever sensible analysis of this nonsense but for your correct use of “hoist by their own petard”!
That is excellent, Lorn. Please send to the best newspapers for wider viewing. It makes the topic so clear and comprehensible that it will make a big impression on readers.
That’s exactly what is not being said but everyone is thinking. Thanks for that sane, refreshing summary of this evil conspiracy.
Quite agree Lorn.
As for the national it was never designed as paper of independence .I was suspicious from the start as it began publishing after the referendum so why did it not start publishing prior to the referendum. And isn’t it a tad odd that it starts publishing at the same time as the sturgeon takes control of the SNP which she has systematically destroyed as the party of independence yet this rag has and still does promote her.
I’m no conspiracy theorist but there is just too many ????
Thank you Rev for all you have done to support women over these last few insane years. You have helped to challenge and highlight this madness against women and have kept the insanity visible. I thank you on behalf of my myself, my daughters and my grandchildren and wish there were more men with your bravery, integrity and honesty. Thank you!
James VI decided, later in life, that he’d been wrong about witches. They weren’t bad, they were mad. He supported research at Cambridge into their delusions.
Lessons there for our woeful ex-civilisation and its appalling ruling class.
It’s interesting that our modern deluded witches should be men rather than women. Could it be to do with the increasing feminisation and infantilisation of society?
Dearieme, Dearieme, you’ve got that all wrong! Witches were neither bad, mad, nor deluded. They were practitioners of natural medicine, but because they were women that was intolerable to society. The problem we face now is that healthcare has been increasingly masculinised to the extent that it does way more harm than good (iatrogenic causes are the third highest killer after heart disease and cancer), not only that but they don’t even understand basic biology.
James the VI was the original Ladyboy. A prime specimen of inbreeding. Christianity’s smartest retard. The Daddy of colonialism. But he was a Man! one of the lads! ( though the lads were nervous when Ladyboy was about). They feared these wise women so they murdered them.
dearieme: accused ‘witches’ were nearly all women (albeit both men and children were also accused) but they were blameless of the crimes attributed to them and many were simply old widows or middle-aged women who made potions from natural herbs and roots, etc. and sold them to earn a living.
Can we say the same about these massively-entitled ‘trans’ identified males, particularly, with obvious sexual fetishes and paraphilias who want to breach female boundaries? We all knew what they were yesterday.
The difference between now and yesterday is that they, mostly, kept their sexual fetish indoors or in clubs, but, today, they want to force the rest of us (women) to pander to their sexual fetish and become part of it – again, without consent.
Even if all of this were not already highly illegal, enforced non consensual participation in someone else’s sexual fantasy/fetish/paraphilia certainly should be. Safeguarding specifically requires that other people’s non consensual enforced participation should be illegal, otherwise our children are not safe.
Name one man executed for being a witch/warlock/whatever pish. Couldn’t, could you? Always totally ignored over the women tragically murdered. Sexist swill. Guess some victims matter more than others. In events hundreds of years ago that nobody but middle class manhating whining feminists gives a damn about.
Onlooker: In Germany, at the height of their ‘witch’ madness, men and children were sent to the stake as witches. It must have been the most gut-wrenching terror for an adult of either sex, but just imagine what not must have been like for a wee bairn! Men and children accusations were less common in Scotland or England, but, by no means, unknown. However, as always, the women were picked off because they could not stand up to the authorities.
I have always believed, through close study of the phenomenon in Scotland, that those in authority never believed in it in the first place. The common folk may have done, through terror, but, even then, vicious rivalry, jealousy, envy and the desire to take any goods or plot of land belonging to a ‘witch’ were just some of the reasons for the denunciations. For the authorities, it kept the populace frightened and obedient. It also allowed them to let the populace let off steam about political and economic and social conditions and steer it all towards hapless females who were considered expendable and pretty ‘useless’ by dint of their age and their sex.
When you read of the actual tortures these women endured, it is very hard not to come to the conclusion that sexual sadism played a large part, too. An inordinate amount of time seemed to be spent in examining and mutilating the women’s sexual organs. Some of the younger women went to the hangman or the stake with a child in their belly, the result of rape by a warder.
Every attack on women, everywhere in the world, at any and every era in time, seems to contain the same elements of sexual cruelty. Every attack on women and girls always contains the same whining from certain male quarters, too: what about the men? I have never claimed that there were no male victims of ‘witch’ hunting because, of course, there were. I do not have names off-hand, but there were some well-known German ones, in particular. Do you think you might be able to contain your evident misogyny long enough to refrain from personal attack?
I’m getting to the stage of wondering why these “people” are being called male?
Before the pile on; they are most definitely NOT female.
But they are sad excuses for the male sex.
I reckon no matter where they started, stopped, lingered or just are that they should be referred to as transgender.
I remember years ago in a Star Trek Next generation episode robot Data notably addressed an audience as “ladies, gentlemen and persons of indeterminate sexual orientation”..
Interesting considering the hoops we are being forced into by Stonewall big pink dollars these years later..
An Edinburgh University webpage has this:
‘The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736’
link to witches.hca.ed.ac.uk
Its perfectly obvious that NHS Fife are trying to find something, anything, to blacken Peggies character t try and salvage something from the trainwreck.
What has always annoyed me about all the gender crap was thatany disagreement or contrary opinion to what they wanted, even if it was just not supportive of it and not threatening at all, immediately branded you as transphobic and a bad person. I simply do care if a bloke wants to put on a dress and call himself a woman, but I don’t have to believe he is right and is a woman.
I am not gay, but simply saying I am not and saying that I am not attracted to men doesn’t make me homophobic the way the trans folk behave.
Thank god it seems to be calming down and the rules are now starting to be based on common sense again.
BTW I suspect the position of public bodies will be based on the direction that the SG has been pushing them, including the newly hired staff who have been pushing the agenda they have been given, it is doubtful that the majority of the women that actually work for the boards will actually agree.
Massive kudos to you, Lorn, not only for your ever sensible analysis of this nonsense but for your correct use of “hoist by their own petard”!
A great compilation of the victories achieved this year, with more yet to come.
We need a National Inquiry into how and why the Totalitarian Cult of Gender permeated our institutions so rapidly and deeply. I can’t help but feel quite shaken at seeing how THICK so many are that they’ve blithely skipped along to swallow the meaningless mantras and decide the safety and rights of women and children are theirs to give away.
I wonder how much public money has been spent on fucking lanyards, flags, pens and badges. Not to mention “gender-affirming care” for fetishists.
I consider Sandie Peggie a hero. And she’s going to liberate the nurses of the NHS from the handmaidens – majority female cronies – that couldn’t run a bath. Her Boss Curran has humiliated herself. The managers are reduced and diminished figures. The management are the ones on trial.
They can take a hike and take their offensive rainbow flag with them. We’re all rolling our eyes!
Thank you for everything you do. It’s great to support Wings Over Scotland.
Excellent article Mr Campbell. Summarises very well how the wheels have now been taken off the insanity bandwagon.
The transcripts of NHS Fife’s Kate Searle in particular bring into sharp focus how the NHS became a partisan lynch squad against Sandie Peggie. There was no justice, no fair play, just the absolute desire to destroy nurse Peggie professionally and personally.
Malice and abuse is extant in these transcripts and it seems utterly clear that this was supported by the body corporate.
Sadie Peggie has been put through hell and wrongly so by a publicly funded service provider who thus far has reportedly spent over £220k in their own legal fees alone. Add NHS staff participation time into the process, care disruption as referred to and the costs could be two,three or four times that already spent on legal fees alone.
And now there will be Sandie Peggies legal bill and compensation to pay. And they say finances are tight.
Finances are certainly not tight when you read about this and all of the other issues that have cost, and will continue to cost the public purse dearly.
But one last thought on the Sandie Peggie case. The doctor who colluded with colleagues and management to rig the system against Nurse Peggie should be referred to the BMA fitness to practice committee.
Far to much of this institutionally supported abuse. Thankfully though, as this piece shows, the tide has turned.
Swinney et al take note. Your days of squandering public money in a period of economic distress and standing against the weight of public opinion is coming to an end.
“The transcripts of NHS Fife’s Kate Searle in particular bring into sharp focus how the NHS became a partisan lynch squad against Sandie Peggie. There was no justice, no fair play, just the absolute desire to destroy nurse Peggie professionally and personally”
Spot on, Willie. What is just as disturbing is that this doctor actually believed that he was in the right, believed that he would be backed to the hilt against anything Nurse Peggie had to say and felt free to say the most anti biology guff whilst practising as a medical professional. The entitlement is off the scale, and that is why so many of these ‘trans’ identified people are bare-a***d narcissists and dangerous to the proper functioning of any public service.
But… but… Gauleiter Gilruth says we must recommit to LGBT-inclusive education.
Sadly, I hear the tiny pitter patter of sanity running for the door, as yet another embarrassing political career defies gravity.
Great stuff- there’s a multi-coloured bus going round Glasgow with Pride markings all over it. They forget Pride’s a sin
There’s a multi-coloured bus going round Glasgow with Pride markings all over it. They forget Pride’s a sin.
Brilliant in-depth article
Rev Stu,
Thank you for all you’re constant and hard work that you put in on this issue, and to all the other brave people that did not back down,
Together people can make a difference.
But all this also played out under the umbrella of the Hate crime Bill, How far would it have got legally if the trans people could not claim hurty words victimhood in advance.
And had police not supported the trans movement and were not monitoring everyones tweets or posts and making arrests and cautions as if a possibility of pre-crime actuality was a crime without going to a jury or court first,
It would seem there was to some degree, preparations, foundations, funding and legislation laid down in advance for future abuse of womens and children rights to be undermined.
If the introduced pre planned changes to actual words in a language and new wording ‘clauses’ in laws encourages and incites a new form of non crime, that gives consent to police to monitor ordinary people as if they were on a terrorist watch list as suspected terrorist.
Any proposed changes to legislation or Statues under the “Scotland act” have to be passed and given royal ascent by the king of England.resting in Westminster parliament of Great Britain.
Personally to me It appears to be that all these new laws in Scotland that have been given Royal Ascent and then contested down south is likened to a game being played out,
As both the devolved government and the (Westminster government for England and Wales) come under the laws and statue’s of Great Britain.
So easy to control and so easy to make Scottish governance appear incapable of running Scotland for itself.
You started so well and descended into ‘
how can I blame the British government for every disaster, crime, theft, betrayal, pompous self inflated, arrogant and down right stupid action committed by born and bred Scots.
@Revstu
On behalf of my wife, daughters and granddaughters, heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you and those other brave souls fighting this absurdity – and winning.
More power to your elbows, bless you all.
Jakey Rowling deserves much credit, for not bowing to the delusional, ideological, halfwits like Harvey,Sturgeon and co.
NHS Fife is digging the biggest of all holes in front of the whole World and the Health secretary plays with his Scalextric set.
The ‘A’ team in charge of Fife NHS, some of whom were also invited here to run St Andrews uni for some reason, and who gave an honorary doc to Hillary Clinton, a key person rumoured to be behind the roll-out of woke-gender ideology in Scotland and elsewhere:
link to nhsfife.org
These women are making a place in history as the biggest threat to women.
Most of the Scottish government executors, advisors and Civil Servants are not born and bred backgrounds,
I have just spent an hour or two reading through where the were educated, what positions the held prior to Joining the Scottish devolved government, and how the Civil servants and Home civil Servants are all a intregral and key part of the UK government and Constitutional Civil Servants are Servants of the Crown,
The home Civil Servants being a reserved matter.but Scotland pays for it.
Yes James, this is of course the reality in a colonial society which is run by external interests/values, as pointed out above in reference to the JPTi/Liberation Scotland most recent submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council under Resolution 57/12 on Local Government and Human Rights, viz:
“Scotland’s current status is best understood not as that of a constituent unit within a unitary or federal state, but as that of a modern colony administered by an external and unaccountable center of power” (JPTi).
link to jpti.ch
And, as Cesaire revealed in colonial societies where a limited measure of so-called home rule is granted to a native population this merely provides an opportunity for the colonial power to exert even tighter control over the territory through additional civil servants being dispatched from the metropolitan capital to ‘manage’ the new assembly and government, always in the imperial power’s interest of course.
Do you never bore yourself with the endless “colonial” guff?
Fair point. How many Scots fill the Westminster corridors.
Come on Rev when we getting the low down. I’m starting to argue with James…
I work in the NHS. It’s a vipers nest. All of the workforce despise the managerial class. Who have never put a pair of blue gloves in on their lives.
I’d like to think it was a Commonweal article on how these people get jobs – become a non executive director on public boards, and learn to be so via Strathclyde University. Does anyone remember this article? It is so true!
Sandie Peggie is a hero for all of us nurses – we’re finally getting one over the managers. Who continue to cut front line staff. Bring in the foreigners. Put up their woke emails. Their woke agenda. Their rainbow lanyards.
Because. Big brother wears the blue and navy uniform! Become a nurse. Care compassionately and without judgment. But think independently… and you’re out! No wrong think allowed in NHS Scotland.
So it’s brilliant to see – these handmaidens revealing their true. Cold callus personality. Hend the knee. Kiss the ring. I. Don’t think so.
I hope she rinses the board for millions and takes early retirement. God bless Sandie Peggie. We are with you!
Patient lying in corridors. That’s the DEI philosophy. Cold, callus, bastards. Isla Bumba and her ilk have to go. They’ve never put a pair of blue gloves in their lives.
They are handmaidens destroying our NHS. Sack them all! I stand with Sandie Peggie! Hero!
Aye, nae bother, likes.
link to linkedin.com
Bumba. another Uni brat with 2 years work experience at an NHS call centre. That’s 1 year 6 months more than Useless.
O/T “Support Legal Fees for a Scottish TV Channel” – crowdfunder.co.uk
See Grouse Beater’s blog on 15th July “SBC TV – the Long Trek” for the detail about David Henry’s project, and the link to the crowdfunder.
We Yes people have always said that we need a supportive presence in the MSM that is seen and heard by non-actively engaged people. A TV channel would be wonderful.
David needs £5000 for legal costs initially – so far he has £1291 from 35 individuals. Can Wingers help?
Karl Marx…“De omnibus dubitandum”. (Doubt everything.)
Once upon a time I thought that The National would bring both balance and truth to the Indy cause/debate, and supported it accordingly…
Turns out it’s fit for nothing but starting a fire or lining a budgie’s cage. Sturgeon’s fanzine for the unreconstructed Wokerati.
I hae ma doubts aboot ony TV channel.
robertknight, I too thought that about The National – I organised a free delivery of 500 copies locally in my naive belief that the paper was on our side. Mind you, under the previous editor I think it was.
David Henry is a different matter. He is a Good Guy, in Scottish Sovereignty Research Group, and has flogged away for years for the cause.
(off topic – sorry !) An article by Craig Dalzell in the Sunday National points out the danger that Scotland’s vast potential for producing renewable energy is being hi-jacked by England and multi-national companies to the detriment of Scotland and Scots, in the same way that Scotland’s oil and gas reserves have already been hi-jacked. People in Scotland (and the Scottish Government) should be aware of how they are being ripped off again.
“Scotland’s vast potential for producing renewable energy is being hi-jacked by England”
Yes, colonialism is primarily about ‘economic plunder’ (Memmi). Common Weal can see the latter but has yet to understand the former; i.e. that economic exploitation is the purpose and outcome of colonial rule:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
917. Getting closer to the magic 1000 Alfie boy.
Framing Scotland’s renewable energy development as a ‘rip-off’ by England or foreign investors is economically misleading and factually flawed. Scotland is a leader in renewable energy, and with smart governance, it stands to gain even more from the green transition. The challenge is ensuring the benefits are shared fairly, reinvested locally, and managed sustainably. The problem is smart governance, and as has been demonstrated time and time again, the SNP are very, very, very far from smart.
No problem can be solved using the same state of mind – the same level of consciousness – that created it in the first place.
Humankind must learn to see its reality from a different angle if it is to escape its propensity for indulging in madness.
Not least because the ‘unpredictability’ of nuttermania behaviour in humans is so paradoxically predictable as to be firmly fixed on the “Scale of Uninteresting Things” at the level of ‘infinitely dull and predictable’.
Pteridomania was an exception, tho; a madness that led to the creation of the pattern stamped on custard creams can only have been a good thing for humankind.
Onyway, thers mair than plenty madderam in ther imperial colonial oppressioun fir the Scots tae be gettin’ oan wi sortin’ oot.
Nae dout God will sort oot thaim wha be tryin’ tae fuck wi hits divine warks in due coorse – a’m thinkin’ hits no gaun’ae be pleisant fir thaim wha think thaimsels abuf the Lord o’ Aw Things.
The deevil’s sin wis pryde tae an leuk whaur thon gat it – cast oot frae heiven tae be doun-hauden in Hell for aw time.
Aye, a ken whaur yon NHS Fife board fowk micht be heidin’ if thair no carefu… it micht awready be decidit fir thaim tae. Ach weel – Hell will mend thaim nae dout.
link to undiscoveredscotland.co.uk
Let’s get back to some knockabout trivia – food, energy, water, geopolitics, war, indy-pendence
Lot of stories on telly last night about “englands water crisis”.
link to archive.ph
– I wonder how they will solve that one?
link to archive.ph
And who will be on the hook for it?
Maybe the same people providing their energy needs, collateral for their paper money, and an escape route for when it gets a bit too ethnic for them.
“we are all in this together”
– remember the words of cameron and that other tory cunt, when their banker pals nearly destroyed the country and then the people had to do austerity.
Never forget that. It’s a partnership – these stupid cunts “smarter than the average bear” do stupid shit and fuck everything up, then we have to turn up and fix it, like little Boo Boo.
– water shortages in england are a lot to do with leaking pipes which have never been fixed for decades, because that is expensive and cuts into the profit margin, the return.
and the water they do have is full of shite because they cannot stop corporate criminals from doing what they like as that would be “interfering with the free market” or something.
And if they ever did have the guts to renationalise england’s water – you do realise who will be getting massive payouts to get “bought out” – yes, the incompetents who caused all the problems to begin with; it’s a win win, they get paid whatever. Note that no UK govt would ever have the balls to seize these nationally important critical infrastructure installations and jail the suits, no, they will stuff their mouths with gold while apologising to the city. But they won’t. Instead they intend to setup a new water regulator (toothless) – NB in business, we have “the price of doing business”, you will break the law as a simple consequence of pursuing profit; this is not a problem, as long as it is just a matter of fines – pass it on to the customer, or the shareholder, or just bankrupt the company – you need to be able to send suits to jail, to cuff smart men with patek philippe watches.
– and yet they want to re-arm to have a go at rusha, and do force projection with carriers and subs and jet fighters, build nuke stations, get a new supernuke bomb … and they can’t do the fucking basics.
This level of utter incompetence never seems to get remarked upon, like it was normal, and all because of anglo delusional narcissism … they never got over the fact they are not an empire any more, so it plays pretend, hires a rental from the yanks and follows them around, in their reflected power and menace, acting like you are still important and not a bunch of fucking pricks, like you wouldn’t get your faces burst in any real fight with anyone who has any self respect.
Let’s see britain, on its own, say to the world, the US, the issies, the international community – “we will handle the houthis lads … stand back … we have this … ” – send a task force, beach landings, mass parachute drop. An across the board draft, starting with the public schools and oxbridge, to show leadership – the people who do most well out of this country/corporation/business enterprise, should be the ones to show maximum commitment to it.
fantasies of relevance past
link to archive.ph
“All the stories have been told Of kings and days of old”
You really would think that the sinking sump of the “British” landmass that is merry old England would join the dots and act accordingly to their “perma crisis” of flood then drought (and repeat..)
Build on floodplains, eroding coastlines and (in geological terms) post ice age rebounding/ sinking landmass and, reap what you sow..
Can’t see them having much sympathy if it was the Celtic fringe, but hey; grab the fertile low lying ground and, well..
Ah, but watch the fly-tippers. They’re building a New Jerusalem
Confused says: Lot of stories on telly last night about “englands water crisis”.
link to archive.ph
– I wonder how they will solve that one?
link to archive.ph
And who will be on the hook for it?
Er….
You really are confused aren’t you?
“ Water companies have committed to bring 9 new reservoirs online by 2050, in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Kent, East Sussex and the West Midlands. These reservoirs alone have the potential to provide 670 million litres of extra water per day. ”
link to gov.uk.
Which mean no need for water from Scotland!
Contrary to the theories of many on here that England will be begging an iScot for water.
As Scotland is facing a drought all of its own.
“ 15 May 2025
All of Scotland is now experiencing water scarcity, with some areas approaching significant levels, environment agency Sepa has warned.”
link to bbc.co.uk
Maybe time to look closer to home first and do your research properly confused.
Stuart @ 09.01.
9 new reservoirs by 2050, eh. One can only hope (preferably not in vain) that they prove more successful than either the national government were with HS2, or, indeed, the Scottish devolved administration were in constructing two ferries.
As an example;
Much of Birminghams water supply is piped from reservoirs in Wales.
Ah but I’m an independence supporter, AYE RIGHT son
The white woke middle class uni educated virtue signalers will move on to some other `cause` and fuck that up.
Simple question if I may.
Our services are being strangled for lack of funding. Money they say is short. People are dying for want of treatment.
And yet here we are squandering millions of pounds of public money on one vicious nasty case where a doctor and others colluded to destroy nurse Peggie.
Why is no action being taken against these individuals.
Doctor Searle should be reported to the GMC fitness to practice committee. His conduct in conjunction with others is reprehensible behaviour.
So why are the miscreant apparachiks who aided and abetter this so called doctor not being held to account for their behaviour.
How many people have died for want of treatment that the NHS cannot afford whilst millions are spent on this bullshit.
Or do patients denied treatment just die in pain. It’s as outrageous as that.
We squander,you die. It’s as brutal as that.Thatcher was the milk snatcher. What then is Swinney?
Willie @ 00.23.
“What then is Swiney ?”.
A fair query, Willie. I’ve always pictured him as one of those official rubber stamps, once so common in every government office for visibly endorsing approved forms and applications.
An anonymous hand picks up the impersonal tool and with it administers the final mark of administrative approval. It has no individuality or visible personality of its own, being merely the final marker of approval.
Mr Swiney … always available to add the official mark to show devolved administration
Policy, the ever useful tool.
“What then is Swinney?”
The stark reality in any colonial society, based on extensive international evidence, is that the leaders of colonial institutions (and all institutions in a colony are colonial in nature/values) primarily serve the interests of the colonizing power.
As Aime Cesaire wrote:
“do not seek to know whether personally these gentlemen …are or are not colonialists, because the essential thing is that their highly problematical subjective good faith is entirely irrelevant to the objective social implications of the evil work they perform as watchdogs of colonialism.”
WHAT’S GOING ON?
“At great turning-points of world-history the relativity of our traditional measures and opinions manifests itself in a clear way. At these historical turning points those who had considered these traditional measures and opinions to be the firm ground of their personal and societal life, easily fall prey to a state of spiritual uprooting, in which they surrender themselves to a radical relativism, which has lost all faith in an absolute truth.” (Herman Dooyeweerd, ‘In the Twilight of Western Thought’.)
Think of Art History — eg Neo-Classicism versus Romanticism. Humanism is again clearly in crisis. It is currently struggling anew between its classical objectivistic, mechanistic, rationalistic polarity which presupposes the abiding normative laws of mathematics and physics — a clockwork UNI-verse model, if you like — and its subjectivistic, irrationalistic, personalistic polarity which radically rejects all normativity as it sinks into a black-hole of infinite flux — a haywire MULTI-verse model of alternative cosmic realities, if you like. Consider the recent Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh ultra-postmodernist movie ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
Earlier movies such as Space Odyssey 2001, Robocop, Bladerunner, Terminator, Matrix, etc had of course already confirmed a dichotomy between mechanistic law and personal freedom – a conflict between human autonomous personality and a natural science which saw reality as an uninterrupted chain of cause and effect.
We might also note here the portending dissolution of human normativity into potentially non-regulated acid-baths of experimental bio-engineering, transhumanism, AI consciousness etc.
The hyper-relativism of the subjectivistic trans polarity stunningly rejected the normative laws of biology. But it rejected also the normative laws of speech and civilised discourse which undergird the negotiated social peace upon which democracy is premised — hence its modus operandi has presented (counter-intuitively perhaps) as strident intransigence, governmental absolutism, raw mob power, infantilised hysteria. All symbolised by the iconic weapon of baby-pink-and-blue-painted baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire.
David Locher, in his 1999 online article ‘Unacknowledged Roots and Blatant Imitation: Postmodernism and the Dada Movement’ stated that “Postmodernism is essentially a neo-Dada movement, updated and focused more specifically on social philosophical issues.”
And elsewhere this quote from Locher:
“At the heart of postmodernism lies the assumption that most of the things that we take for granted are, in fact, simply illusions. […] In other words, meaning is arbitrary, relative, and subjective. Language is, in its own way, reality. What we refer to as reality is not knowable, and we live in the illusion that we are in touch with it.” (Postmodernism as Neo-Dada)
The above Locher observation brings to mind Dooyeweerd’s rather gnomic remark: “The walls of the absolutization of personal individuality have no windows.”
The influence of mainstream media such as the BBC has been perniciously overwhelming. Popular music has of course always played a (very welcome) subversive and catalytistic role. However, the cultural lightening rod power of certain pivotal celebrities such as the David Bowie in presaging the trans worldview has been obvious:
SÙILEAN DHÀIBHIDH BHUIDHE
Nach air a bha an dà shealladh sna 70an.
Oir tha sinn uile a’ seinn òran Ziggi a-nis,
crochte mar gum biodh bho uèirichean-stèids,
a’ smèideadh gu bàidheil ri Mèidsear Tom,
fiamh-ghàire oirnn air sgàth nan camarathan.
THE EYES OF DAVID BOWIE
He really had the ‘second sight’ in the 70s, didn’t he?
Because he’s sure got us singing Ziggi’s song now.
As we sway highly strung from invisible stage-wires,
and wave duly overcome to Major Tom,
and smile so convincingly for the cameras.
TYPOS:
catalytistic = catalystic
such as the David Bowie = such as David Bowie
lightening rod = lightning rod
John Lennon described Bowie as “Rock and Roll in drag”.
Lorn says on 19 July 2025 at 11:23 pm:
“The National is a disgrace as a national newspaper. Its pages are in vested with ‘trans’ dogma and its support of independence carried only as far as the SNP, and, even then, only some of the SNP. It is partisan and disgraceful. It wouldn’t recognize truth if it bit it on the bum.”
Yes, but “Agent X” is the same halfwit who repeatedly posts direct links to the various BritNat Dead Tree Scrolls, especially Tory BritNat tabloids such as The Express and Daily Mail. And every halfwit who clicks on those links are helping to fund the bile written in those outlets.
BTW, ever noticed how a certain other poster on here shares a very similar political outlook and attitude? I wouldn’t be surprised if they were both the same arrogant bigoted twat.
Note, for those of you new to reading this site, if you archive news outlet links before posting you prevent that outlet gaining any financial benefits via advertising etc. AND you create a permanent archived record of the article so less scrupulous churnalists can’t change any of the articles wording. And you prevent them from removing the article at a later date, so they can’t ever deny they wrote what they wrote. 😉
I agree that real nationalists are fighting a war on two fronts – the Westminster front and the Holyrood front – but let’s not forget just how many Scottish parliamentarians and others voted for the gender woo woo. Almost all of the parties, including the SNP, whipped their MSPs, in Holyrood, to vote this stuff through to reach the point of passing it, which, only with huge luck, failed, as the public started to voice its opinion on the matter.
From early on, I did notice that most of the middle-aged ‘trans’ identified men I saw were English, but it soon spread, and the Scottish parliament took it up with alacrity and gusto, so, please, can we just accept that we, ourselves, at least our elected representatives, our heads of public institutions and others, are directly to blame for what has happened since 2015?
The National was well-supported in our household, with a hard copy and an online subscription for the reason that it was Scotland’s only independence-supporting newspaper. That all changed last year when I was banned from commenting because (I assume) I challenged, on a regular basis, both the SNP stance on independence (non existent) and the gender woo woo. Having checked the comments rules, I went as far as I believed I could in pointing out the flaws in both policies.
Needless to say, after much name-calling and accusations by other contributors along the lines of: ‘bigot’, ‘disgusting ‘trans’ phobe’; ‘anti SNP ("Tractor" - Ed)’, among them)and not one of those name-callers was banned) I was banned from the online comments. However, I discovered that I was also banned from The Herald, presumably because they belong to the same group, although I had not commented there.
Having challenged this, I was met with silence. This is not a democratic Scotland, but a totalitarian branch of a state that is, itself, totalitarian. This is not a whinge; if I, essentially a nobody, can be banned, so can anyone who dares to question the status quo and the prevalent orthodoxies. Scotland is going nowhere until these bar stewards are ousted from office. The Peggie case shows just how far they are prepared to go to maintain hegemony.
Bravo Stuart and all those fighting the good fight, on our behalf as well as for the victims of this insane gender ideology, as peddled by Sturgeon, chief witch and Commander-in-Chief and her co-conspirators.
The wee girl abducted by paedophile “ trans” butcher Andrew Miller in Melrose, no doubt emboldened by the self id bollocks to dress as a woman, whose offending was described by the judge as frankly nauseating in its level of depravity and criminal deviance, is one such victim.
The female prisoners who were horrified and traumatised by the male rapists sent into their midst, as sanctioned by the state.
The condoning of genital mutilation of our children and young people at the Sandyford Clinic were victims
Sturgeon enabled and condoned our public institutions, our schools, hospitals, rape crisis centre etc to become pervert safaris. Our politicians either doing it themselves or turning blind eyes to it. The hideous Maggie Chapman advocating the age of consent be reduced to 8 years. A wannabe pimp institutionalising the grooming of children into the transgender movement?
Now it’s all coming back up, rancid and nasty and burning our throats as we retch it up.
Heartfelt thanks to you Stuart for your truth and goodness and beauty and the joy of these victories. Joy is an act of resistance.
In contrast, Sturgeon with her rictus that looks like a smile, but isn’t, is radiant with hate. SNP? Give us your vote and we’ll take all your money. FTS. Fuck that shit.
Christine: they said that Isla Bryson was “at it”, but they still backed this ideology to the hilt even when Dolatowski and Miller were known to be ‘trans’ identified for years, refusing to see that, at its root, it is a men’s sexual rights movement and, therefore, very, very dangerous to children, as well as women. I know we can’t tar everyone with the same brush, but anything that is sexual at its base – and all, studies have shown that the adult men are steeped in fetishes and paraphilias – is dangerous, inherently, to all females and all children, so the very least we can do is to ensure that these men have no access to them.
“Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman has been dethroned from the North East Scotland regional list.”
She is not likely to be an MSP after 26 election.
replaced with “Mr Ingerson, an environmental campaigner, will be the party’s top North East candidate in 2026.
A popular local figure in the party and former co-convenor of the Greens’ LGBTQ wing”
I only achieve getting an hour or so to do research or create a post, on this old technology That does not always work,
I therefore encourage others to do some simple research as I do , or the more indepth research like Rev Stu does,
I cannot post links with this old technology, the codes are not mine, however what I posted yesterday was researched backgrounds of who runs and is in place in the devolved government in Scotland was, from the Scottish devolved government site itself.
Anyone could research this available information,, they do not need to wait for others to provide information to them on a plate,
If others have done research earlier it would not have taken so long for Scots to realise the Colonial position that Alf Baird has long Studied,
The trans issue that Rev Stu has researched thoroughly.
The king of England being constitutionally in the parliament that is run as the parliament for England and Wales of great Britains.
Those contributors that over the years on here have researched our economy, where our resources
Go and how they are operated behind the scenes.
How the devolved governance works, and whose imposing double layers of laws for people in Scotland,
Or Salvo’s new contributions,
And many other researched topics that enlighten the people living here.
Don’t wait for others to do your homework, and if you have technology that works, ( unlike mine) by all means provide the links for the good and well being of everyone else living here.
Hopefully your PC will ‘pack in’ completely very soon.
Stu has posted many many researched topics he has done over the years, not just the more recent years,
If you can access wings over Scotland archives, I would recommend it is worth anyones time if you have only recently found this site, as it goes back a long way back and involves many comments from posters whom sadly are no longer with us,
An education in itself.
The old technology I still have to use, sadly often gets blocked by gateway, or disappears into the ether,
It is up to others to provide all the links to information as much as possible where they can.
“All of Scotland has water scarcity after driest period in 60 years”
Apart from the fact there isn’t a single full stop or comma in anything said by the BBC – especially when it relates to Scotland – that can be trusted as coming anywhere close to the truth I think folk often forget that Scotland disnae stay dry fir verra lang.
Gie it a fortnight or sae and the headline on the BBC ‘News’ coud well be:
“Torrential rain battering all of Scotland worst in 60 years”
“All of Scotland is now experiencing water scarcity”
If you believe what the ‘UK’ state media or other state quangos tell us you probably also believe there is a UK ‘Union’, which is a falsehood according to evidence now submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council under Resolution 57/12 on Local Government and Human Rights:
link to jpti.ch
What response was received to this submission to the UN? Why are you hiding it?
Just because you believe the earth is flat Professor Baird, does not mean that it really is!
As has been pointed out as nauseum the appeal to the UN is doomed to fail, as Scotland never has been a colony, nor does it meet the criteria for being one, apart from in the minds of a tiny minority of ardent believers.
Thus your whole case falls flat on its face at the first hurdle.
This is just a displacement activity, a noisy and futile distraction from the real business of winning elections to deliver a popular vote for independence.
Without that no matter how many cunning plans you come up with, they are all so much hot air.
Literally wheest for Indy.
That being the case you have nothing to worry about.
“Ronnie”
Your comment makes no sense !
The simple fact is that Alf Baird’s continual swamping of every discussion with cut & paste quotes from “post-colonial theory” textbooks does nothing to advance the independence movement. In fact it hinders it, by making lndy supporters look like a bunch of nutters !
Aye, Ronnie.
@Stuart; This is the same drivel that Aidan has been spouting ad nauseam for many weeks, now. If it was doomed to fail, why did JPTI take it on? As an official interlocutor to the UN, it is its business to understand these matters, and it has said that Scotland’s case is strong.
And if, as Aidan has claimed here more than once, the petition was summarily ‘thrown out’ by the C-24 on presentation, why has there been no official announcement to that effect yet? Why has Craig Murray been talking to a number of members to see if one or more will undertake to sponsor Scotland and raise a resolution to the UNGA/Forth Committee to have Scotland recognised as a territory for the purpose of having its Petition for NSGT listing officially looked into by the C-24?
If you believe that Scotland does not meet the criteria, perhaps you could detail which criterion or criteria it fails on, and why?
Xaracen I don’t have to make a case that has already been done by “The People’s Assembly” over on Facebook just search for them and add “Salvo” the thread explains why this is a strategy that’s doomed to fail.
I also watched Barrhead Boys video with Craig Murray, where it appears that the Russians are very interested in this attempt at gaining independence via the back door.
Now if that’s the case the UK government will have a field day pointing out how Putin’s Genocidal orcs are involved.
Still if you and others think that’s a braw idea, far be it from me to state just how bad that’s going to look.
@Xaracen – I don’t know if you get this, but large organisations like the UN make announcements about the issues they are dealing with and don’t make announcements about issues they aren’t. In the say way that people announce getting married or buying a new house on social media, but don’t announce deleting their spam folder full of junk emails at the end of the week. Please provide some positive evidence that the UN has taken this on or continue to look ridiculous. The UN has the submission, that much is indisputable. They’ve had it for ages, so what has happened, who is looking at it? What correspondence has been received? Why is this all being hidden?
As to why JPTi has taken this on, they are a tiny likely cash starved organisation. Salvo has provided them with some of the donations they have raised over the years, that keeps the lights on whilst they do work they’re actually interested in.
@Aidan; I don’t know if you get this, but if they’ve made no announcements about it, how did you know that the C-24 had “thrown out” Scotland’s Petition for NSGT listing?
You just made it up, didn’t you. Please provide some positive evidence that the C-24 has officially rejected the Petition or continue to look ridiculous.
Because JPTI posted on their website that the case of Scotland couldn’t be discussed at the C-24 conference in June, also confirmed by the lack of any mention of the petition or of Scotland in the minutes of the June session, which have now been released.
As I said before, even if I had every person who attended and who helped organise the conference sat in front of you with access to any and all documents that you wanted to look at, you’d still refuse to believe it because you’re determined to believe that 2+2=5 no matter what. Just know that aside from a few other fanatics, everyone else can see that this is hopeless.
But, Aidan, that is not at all the same thing as saying that Scotland’s petition was ‘thrown out’! You made it clear that Scotland’s petition was never coming back, even if a sponsoring member was found. You doubled down on it, in fact, and you’ve just done it again, above.
You clearly asserted the permanence of the rejection, but that simply isn’t true, at least not yet. The C-24 won’t meet again till next year, but by then it’s entirely possible that Scotland has had its territory recognised for NSGT evaluation from having been sponsored by an existing member in the meantime. And if not next year, then the year after.
You have been over-egging your argument for months, and you are still doing so.
Scotland’s case is anything but ‘hopeless’, Aidan. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s not dead either.
@Xaracen – thrown out is a figure of speech, it’s not been printed out and physically thrown out of the door of the UN HQ in New York. What has happened is C-24 have said that they have no remit to consider it. That is directly contrary to what we were told was going to happen.
Now yes, if a sponsoring state can be found, and the General Assembly votes on it, that does provide a process for Scotland (or any other territory to be added to the list of NSGT’s). However, that’s not the big plan that has been built up to and which we’ve been told about over and over again. But what is required here is to overcome insurmountable challenges, for one thing the politics is stacked against Scotland. She can expect virtually no support from other countries. Secondly, the members of the United Nations have previously agreed with the UN charter and subsequent documents not to designate a territory in the situation of Scotland as an NSGT. So it isn’t going to happen.
For those who CLAIM to be independence supporters you seem tae get yir panties in a twist when Professor Baird raises any kind of reference to being colonised , is the reason perhaps that you are still brainwashed into the subservient tool of the yoonionist and cannot think outside their box, I notice the same clamour and desperation to refute assertions made by the Scotland Haters like Aiden and agent arsehole captain cringer and such on here is missing
“Raises any kind of reference”, this blog post was made on Saturday, its first thing on Tuesday morning and the word “colony” or variations therefore appears more than 20 times, all in posts by Professor Baird. Normally there are several posts a day, so on blog posts that aren’t superseded for a while, the references get into the hundreds. These posts basically say the same thing, and aren’t tailored to either reflect ongoing conversation or raise any discussable ideas or issues.
Please tell me what is “pro-Scotland” about that kind of behaviour?
Scottish Greens Holyrood 2026 election candidates:
Edinburgh & Lothians East
Mridul Wadhwa
I note that he wasn’t separated from the public purse for long. The Sturgeon gravy train chugs contemptuously on its merry way.
Chapman knocked off top spot in aberdeen-replacement however is of the same ilc
Madrugha thing 7th on the list
I’ve taken a break from politics and noticed the other day that the SNP has made holding a referendum part of their Holyrood election campaign. Nothing ever changes.
As always, this Trans things keeps rolling along. The last being the Nurse Peggie case where one of the things brought where a female HR manager doesn’t know if she is a woman or not would bring a reaction of utter disbelief but in this day, it hardly gets a second thought.
For me anyway, it does seem the issue we are beginning to see now is that isn’t as much to do with the Trans ideology itself but how incompetent and not fit for purpose our public institutions and those who staff it are.
The blatant example of this is if a woman doesn’t even know she is a woman or not, should she be in such a highly paid senior role?
It’s all very well having court rulings about what defines a woman but what’s the point where the people in our public institutions are either unable or unwilling to bide by them?
It does feel that this Trans ideology has shown how badly our public institutions are and are in badly need of reform.
Trans ideology is like an IRA thesis on Law and Order.
O/T
There was an election in Japan yesterday where a far right party called Sanseito has become the 4th largest party in one of it’s elected bodies.
Given the parties controversial to say the least rhetoric and policies and seeing the likes of Reform UK as an influence, the party itself bears no interest but what is interesting is how a party that was only formed only 5 years ago has now become the fourth biggest party in one of it’s countries elected bodies.
Details of it’s rise is detailed in the below link:
link to ghostarchive.org
Details of this as follows:
From this, it does feel that the future of politics is in social media. Whether that is good or bad is another thing but it is happening and it is up to political movements to occupy this space as a way of moving forward.
I knew it! They’re going to bomb Pearl Harbour again.
“This model accomplishes two things simultaneously. First, it creates a tight-knit ideological echo chamber, giving members a sense of belonging and insider knowledge while isolating them from outside criticism.”
That sounds familiar!
They missed the oil tankers first time round. A fateful error.
Boom boom
George Ffoulkes staggers into the pub holding part of the House of Lords £9m £6m unworking door under his arm and slurs for whisky at the bar.
What are you doing with that plank asks the bartender as he pours the drink.
Itsh not a plank – rift – burp – fart – p1sh – replies Ffoulkes, itsh a door..
The barman looks straight at Ffoulkes and replies, I was talking to the door, not you!
Boom boom
C4 news interviewer Krishnan talking to Steve Reed, Sec of State for Environment etc. Steve R, saying that Scotland’s publicly owned water is far more polluted than England’s privatised system. But he wasn’t asked by Krishnan to verify this.
And why doesn’t SEPA respond??
I’ll tell you why;
To the English, Paddy is a figure of fun, Taff is part of the lower species.
But Jock is the uppity one and no lie is too heinous to create a public broadcaster rebuttal that somehow, just somehow things are always so much worse here no matter how much they benignly throw money at and fund us..
And the media just nods along; what are you doing you jokes..
I’d just like to remind said minister that Messr McCrone could pee way way higher up the wall than Messr Barnett ever could do; so the former got D listed while the latter got and gets Fleet Street front pages.
That’s a fact Unionists here if any of you are up for a joust..
“A number of options were put in front of Ms Peggie to help her return to work and avoid Dr Upton, with these including moving to a different hospital, the Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline which was an extra 23 minutes away by car or 12 miles away. It also included moving her to day shifts, despite the nurse needing to look after her dog. These suggestions came after she was told she could a toilet to change in to avoid Dr Upton in the female changing rooms.”
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Alternatively Upton with his cock and bollocks could have been told not to use the female changing room. Problem solved.
A major problem is that the Trans lobby are miles ahead in the language war. Gender is replacing sex in everyday conversation amongst the ordinary public. Winnning in court is fantastic, but we have to regain the language upperhand.
What gender is your baby or the baby you are yet to give birth to is becoming the done thing to say. It is of course nonsense to give a baby a gender as the only thing going on at that time are biological and what causes somebody to go down the trans route won’t have come into play yet. You would have to assign a gender.
We need to correct people when they use gender when they should be saying sex.
Excellent idea from agent x to tranfer employment to Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline!
To Rev Stu, the french expression ‘tour de force’ seems appropriate for ‘Pillars of Sanity’. Thank you for your work.
GENDER-CRITICAL ACADEMICS EXPERIENCING ‘BULLYING AND HARASSMENT’
« University staff and students across the UK have suffered “extreme personal consequences” for upholding the reality of biological sex.
« ‘Report 2: Barriers to research on sex and gender’, commissioned by the Government, analysed 130 responses to a call for evidence hosted on University College London’s website. Report one concerned problems arising from replacing sex with ‘gender identity’ in official data and was published in March.
« Overall, 58 per cent reported “self-censorship and chilling effects”, followed by “bullying, harassment and ostracism” at 42 per cent, and “barriers to publication” at 39 per cent.
‘FAILURE’
« The new report cites recent investigations into bullying and harassment in academia. The report stated that several respondents to the Khan Review “suffered extreme personal consequences, both to their careers and to their physical and mental health, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and extensive sick leave as a result of bullying, harassment and discrimination.
« “The failure to adequately support and defend these individuals is a stain on the higher education sector.”
« In reference to Khan, it emphasises: “This is not a question of ‘both sides’ behaving badly in a ‘toxic debate’, as we have no documented evidence of gender-critical staff or students advocating for or engaging in behaviours such as attempts to de-platform academics with opposing views.”
« In its recommendations, the report urges universities to “prioritise the pursuit of truth as the core principle underlying university education and research” and “help students to develop the ability to deal with robust disagreement as an opportunity for intellectual growth rather than a threat”.
‘PUBLIC TRUST’
« Writing in The Times, the Principal Investigator, Professor Alice Sullivan, said: “Sex is a fundamental category in all research concerning humans, from biology to sociology.
« “When certain facts become unspeakable, it doesn’t just hurt individuals, it compromises the integrity of scholarship. This weakens public trust in universities, science and scholarship, and ultimately undermines our democracy.”
« In response, a Government spokesperson stated that it is “introducing new duties on universities to ensure they are robust in promoting and protecting free speech on campus. It also comes alongside the firm steps the Office for Students is already taking, through fines and new guidance, to ensure universities remain beacons of academic freedom”.
SEVERE FINES
« From 1 August, The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act and associated Office for Students’ guidance will require universities to promote freedom of speech or risk severe fines.
« The OfS’s Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom, Arif Ahmed, said: “The core mission of universities and colleges is the pursuit of knowledge. Free speech and academic freedom are fundamental to this purpose.
« “Students need to know that they can freely share lawful views and opinions, and be prepared to hear a range of views as part of their studies. This includes things that they may find uncomfortable or shocking.”
« Earlier this year, the OfS fined Sussex University £585,000, ruling that the university’s transgender policy had caused a “chilling effect” on the expression of lawful views on biological reality. »
(The Christian Institute, 21 March 2025)
Worrying that St Andrews University leaders also appear to be the guiding hand behind an inept Fife Health Board:
link to nhsfife.org
When childrens Britanica is educating Kids that Scotland has been run by the monarch of England since 1603.
When you read the same message being provided by the houses of parliament,
When you read a source in wikisource that the monarch of England has run Scotland since since 1603,
When you read the Scottish claim of Right where by it States that a sister convention parliament to the Scottish parliament state that King James V11 was never king of Scots because he never took the oath nor was coronated.so the Scottish throne is vacant.
Apparently it has been vacant since 1603.
One wonders how a non-personal unshared union of Crowns of two separate kingdoms can both be present to order “commissioners” to start negotiations prior to the treaty of union to create the
Monarch of England the monarch of Britain parliament of England and Wales,
The political pillars of Sanity over the details of a union seem as far fetched as the Trans issue,
Where a man can join to be a woman by fiddling with some paper work is not unlike the union of two kingdoms whereby one monarch of England since 1603 can trans into two monarchs by fiddling some paper work.
It is amazing how paper has the alchemy to Trans- something so solid and defined, into weapons of gold dust.for certain individuals that have the need to believe it is possible.
Thanks so much for all your great work.
Gilruth!
Jesus H Christ..
The phrase “inept clown that’s achieved nothing worthwhile and effed up a shed load of stuff that was and is worthwhile” comes to mind.
One of SHE who shall not be nameds cabal of dangerous uselessness and rank mediocrity..
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Hi
I am a Glasgow GP and I though I would appreciate a peak behind the curtain about what happened at the recent UK GP confernce in Glasgow. If you cant understand why a UK doctor wont say what gender they are have a look at this confernce motion.
the motion itself and the speaker is not particualrly troublesome but some of the responses are telling. start 1hr.43min
link to bma.streameventlive.com