The Secondhand Amendment
We’re really not sure this makes things any better with regard to the incredible tale that’s unfolded around the judgment in Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife.
In fact, on any interpretation we can think of, quite the reverse.
But we’d better give you some context. The quote in the image above comes from the reply to a formal complaint made by alert Wings reader Ewan Kennedy. This was it:
It’s a measured, informed enquiry, which makes clear it’s not questioning the judgment itself but the extraordinary circumstances in which, among other concerning issues, it cited entirely fictional paragraphs from preceding cases.
This is the reply Mr Kennedy received and which we quoted at the start:
And it raises more questions than it answers.
(This, incidentally, is Paragraph 6.1 of the Policy. We cannot on the face of it identify anything here which meets any of the criteria for dismissing the complaint.)
Even on its surface, though, it’s remarkable. As an explanation it amounts to “a big boy did it and ran away”. We’re told that the source of the fictitious quotes was not Judge Sandy Kemp, nor an AI bot, but “a judicial colleague” – someone who isn’t named and therefore cannot be held accountable by or to anyone. We’re not told anything about what this person said or the circumstances, timing or extent of this “correspondence”.
For such a serious matter, that’s about as good as this:
But what if it were true? What exactly are we being told? Because the thing is, the quotes are still fictitious. Whether it was Judge Kemp or our mysterious John or Jane Doe who made them up, they were still made up.
Which means that Judge Kemp not only farmed out key aspects of his decision to someone else who was not responsible for it – someone whose level of knowledge of the case we can only speculate about – who fed him some imaginary precedents, but that he also used them to inform his judgment without even conducting a basic check of the fake citations they gave him.
We’re sorry, but that requires further explanation, to say the very least. Because what if, for example, our John Doe turned out to be this person?
We should emphasise that we have no reason whatsoever to believe it IS Dr McCloud. We don’t even know if he would be classed as “a judicial colleague”. But since we’re told nothing about the enigmatic source, it stands to reason that it COULD be, and we presume we don’t have to explain just how bad it would be if someone with a clear vested interest in undermining the Supreme Court verdict were to have influenced a judgment like the Peggie one – and doubly so on the basis of invented citations.
(The same category could also include the “campaigning KC” mentioned in the Times piece, the increasingly worryingly unhinged Jolyon Maugham. Once again, we have no reason to believe that it was him.)
It is not a satisfactory defence to having been caught including fake citations in your judgment to say “Well, it was actually someone else, but I’m not telling you who” and expect that to be the end of it. We invite readers to imagine the short shrift an accused person would get from the bench if they attempted such a plea in a trial.
(Indeed, we’re told by well-informed figures within the legal system that the response in itself likely amounts to new and separate grounds for appeal, above and beyond those that Sandie Peggie’s team already intend to deploy.)
As Ms Muir notes in her response, the judgment was issued in the name of Judge Kemp and it is he who is wholly responsible for it. This site has been documenting for several years the woefully inadequate levels of accountability and transparency across all of Scotland’s establishment and civic society, but in particular the Scottish judicial system, and this is as starkly glaring a case as could be offered in proof.
(The fact that Judge Kemp must have known the intense scrutiny his judgment would be subjected to in such a high-profile and political case, but delivered it in such deeply flawed condition anyway, is especially unfathomable except as the behaviour of someone who feels able to act with total impunity.)
In no remotely respectable country should it be possible for courts to issue judgments based on easily-proven fabrications, and then simply wave those fabrications away as minor clerical errors while pointing the finger at unnamed phantoms.
But that, readers, is where we currently stand.
“Whether it was Judge Kemp or our mysterious John or Jane Doe who made them up, they were still made up.”
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If the judicial (If not judicious) colleague used AI then that COULD have generated the algorithmic “hallucination” that was imported, one step removed, into the Judge Kemp findings.
Judge Sweeney in the Darlington nurses case had no such problem. And delivered findings aligned with Common sense!
“……the algorithmic “hallucination” that was imported, one step removed, into the Judge Kemp findings.”
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On Radio 4’s Today programme of 19 January, the scholar Tom Holland again reports an AI hallucination in his researches on the ancient Greek writer, Pindar.
Catch him on BBC Sounds about 2hrs 40mins into the programme.
Judge Kemp?
Judge Camp as Danny La Roo more like.
Or was it John Doe who was googling on behalf of the Judge?
A most excellent informative article Rev Stu. And a thanks too to solicitor Ewen G Kennedy for his excellent complaint of misconduct against judge Kemp
The plot most certainly thickens. There certanly seems much more to the issue of the correction issued by judge Kemp, and the president’s response to Mr Kennedy’s complaint very much reinforces that.
Obfuscation and failure to address judicial breaches raises some very grave concerns. And I say this as the Scottish Government potentially within days faces the prospect of being held in contempt of court for failing to disclose information it was ordered to provide.
Too many people do not have insight into the political shennanigans that are going on. This type of investigative reporting is so desperately needed.
So good stuff Wings, and good stuff Mr Kennedy. And in relation to Mr Kennedy, if he be the same one, maybe Wings would consider a piece into the background of the Oban Sheriff Court imposing a brutal restricive American corporate style SLAPP on behalf of a billion pound fish farm business against an environment campaigner.
* SLAPP = strategic litigation against public participation.
Thanks Willie, and you’re right about the SLAPP cases.
A long time reader and admirer of the site but rarely a commentator.
What I would say is that the ‘compliant’ was submitted Christmas Eve and the reply was composed and sent over 4 working days (excluding Bank Holidays and weekends).
What kind of thorough investigation could have taken place in 4 days and over the Christmas period as well, when as we all know,
government moves from slug to sloth pace.
Lots of follow-up questions and clarifications to be asked of Sandra Muir?
Surely not another cover-up?
*complaint not compliant!
Very good point, Northcode.
The Muir reply was pure Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Surely not another cover up?
Surely yes I’m afraid Northern Lad. Duvet government, duvet law, might be euphemisms to describe our systemically corrupted judicial processes.
But yes, more questions to be asked and answers demanded.
And Judge Kemp, he should be sacked. Those who lie, and I mean lie, under the judicial duvet need cleaned out.
Our cess pit needs cleaned.
It is the baleful influence that the ‘trans’ issue/lobby is having, apparently, on so many people in positions of trust and authority that needs to be looked into, too. It is why he allowed this to pass as a judgement either without looking at it or in the knowledge that the ‘colleague’ might be either ‘trans’ or a sympathiser, that needs to be highlighted, as well as the substance oil the judgement itself.
Everybody and their dug knows it was AI.
Every Civil Service letter I get is patently AI generated.
Nobody in Government is not using it, yet I’m to believe nobody in the *checks notes* laborious and tedious tasks related to the interminable intracacies of Law is using it ever…
Clyde ower there, banana boat ower there, I’m ower here.
Of course, AI is used extensively, but not in the way that this judgement pans out, so, either lies are being told about human input or the AI was pointed in a specific direction, such as: please find how you can circumvent existing law to come up with an answer that supports Dr Upton. In the general way of things, AI does not generate lies. It could use pieces of legislation inaccurately, but it cannot change the meaning of a sentence by removing a word to make the sentence have the opposite meaning whilst always coming down on the side of the ‘trans’. That is where the AI option falls down.
He might have used AI to an extent, but it still would require human intervention to skew the judgement in the ways it was skewed. Also, he might not have given the judgement close scrutiny, but even a cursory glance at the wording would have highlighted at least some of the flaws. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that he wanted the judgement to reflect Dr Upton’s case and not Nurse Peggie’s. I can see no way round that conclusion.
Are the judges and lawyers (reputed to have been) involved in “Fettesgate” in the early 90s still in place?
That might be worth investigating to see if there are links deeper than the obvious…..(But be careful)
If it was AI as you suggest Iain then this would mark Judge Kemp as a liar since Sandra Muir the SPS to the President said that having made enquires she is satisfied that it is clear that the source of the erroneous quotes arose from correspondence with a judicial colleague.
Something doesn’t gel and there are other questions that need answered. The sty is stinking.
As I understand it, “Judicial colleague” is a standard phrase only used to refer to fellow judges. So the error that Kemp is now attributing to some unnamed third party seems likely to be an error made by another judge, most likely one treated as an authority in this area of law by his or her colleagues.
In seeking to settle the matter, Sandra Muir doubles the number of judges we now have a concern about.
Absolutely unacceptable whitewash and a very large nail in the coffin of justice.
Why don’t they just tear up the law and declare it will be whatever suits them case by case
and if you want to appeal you can’t.
The difference between the U.K. and a Banana Republic with a Dictator is that here they send you a letter to tell you that your facts don’t in fact matter to them.
I’d say the banana republic at least hasn’t wasted the paper or the postage costs.
Shame on them!
A banana republic has bananas. That’s the difference.
The balance between independence, and oversight of the judiciary is the perennial problem.
In the seventies, and eighties, the composition of Westminster could be lazily described as; Tory benches filled with lawyers, and Labour benches filled with senior shop stewards. It wasn’t a terrible mix. It was a legislative assembly after all. The Tory lawyers knew the law through full-time tertiary education, and practice. The shop stewards were put through modules on employment law, basic accounting, basic company law, etcetera (they also had first hand experience of the impact of the law on regular people).
The situation was curiously rigged in favour of the legal mafia because Westminster mainly sat in the evening. The Tory lawyers doubled jobbed.
When Thatcher took a chainsaw to employment rights, the legal system escaped scrutiny. Closed shops remained for the court system only. Employment practices were skewed in favour of the lawyers, barristers, and judges. Legal fees provided their luxury lifestyles whether through legal aid, or exorbitant fees for representation which would bankrupt individuals (Jarndyce v’s Jarndyce was a long time ago, and it’s still with us).
The lawyers are mainly gone from Westminster, to be replaced by a professional political class. Middle class politics graduates who’ve never had a proper job in their lives, and are completely insulated from the lives of ordinary people. Holyrood was infected by these leaches from day one. Our professional politicians have zero concept of commercial practices, having only ever suckled at the teat of the state (see ferry procurement, Deposit Return Scheme, and other bourachs too numerous to list).
Formal oversight of the intricate workings of the legal profession would come from these ill-educated, self important, parasites (imagine Gravy bus Barbie chairing a tribunal). Be careful what you wish for.
Vivian O’Blivion, 19 January, 2026 at 9:09 am
“In the seventies, and eighties, the composition of Westminster could be lazily described as; Tory benches filled with lawyers, and Labour benches filled with senior shop stewards”
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An over-simplification.
The Labour MP, John Smith was a lawyer as was his successor as leader, Tony Blair. Smith held office under that quintessential figure of the 1970s, Harold Wilson.
There were many other Labour lawyers both front and back benches and government over this period.
That’s why he already described it as ‘lazy’.
Not that you are wrong in offering further detail.
When West Midlands Police ‘made up’ evidence to ban fans, and referenced events that never occured, the result was the Chief Constable resigned. If two tier justice doesn’t exist then surely Judge Kemp should follow suit? But then we all know that won’t happen.
One can only applaud Mr Kennedy, and, of course, our esteemed host.
Lorna,
I have replied to you’re comment you made yesterday on Stu’s previous post, so not to interrupt this one with OT so early on,
Long tails and short skirts will sooner or later will have to end in favor of biological women and men.
If the polls are correct and Nigel Farage become the next PM he and reform isn’t going to continue on the path of ignoring this topic and I would presume they would make it an election subject.
Trans-ideology on or before 5 August 2029 will hit STONEWALL and biological women and men will have their rights returned.
So lets be honest the Westminster holds all the power and the party’s in favour of STONEWALLING this subject are prepared to changing the UK law in favour of biological women and men. So this isn’t going to last beyond 2029 when something is done about this subject.
Absolutely!
Nigel Farage will ‘try to scrap Holyrood’ as PM, says John Swinney, sign me up.
The SNP has used Holyrood as a means to deny Independence and to prosecute and persecute innocent and man, now SNP is using Holyrood to tell Scottish Information Commissioner what information is or isn’t relevant.
Talking of Nigel, did you know he’s currently in DAVOS?
Annual WEF Conference is currently underway.
Is he there to create a stink or is he there as an acolyte?
A hae ma doubts. I really don’t know but I have suspicions.
Him and Tice both recently slipped and backtracked when asked to define a woman . . . Queer Theory and GI are Globalist ideologies . . and what of Rupert Lowe? Is he starting a new political party or not? Rupert APPEARS to be the only Reform UK MP worth a fuck . . . this brings us neatly back to something Stu has advocated . . we vote for Scotland being a self-governing territory again, OR we vote to give up Holyrood and accept direct WM rule . . a binary choice.
I know I’ve not nearly covered every nuance in this post.
But hey: TL:DR 😉
Excellent as always Stu.
I noticed this quote from Dr McCloud in the following Sky News article in relation to the recent Darlington Nurses case.
//news.sky.com/story/nurses-in-transgender-row-suffered-harassment-from-nhs-trust-tribunal-rules-13493315
Dr Victoria McCloud was the UK’s first transgender judge, who is now mounting a legal challenge against the judgment, arguing trans people were denied the opportunity to give evidence to the court.
In Dr McCloud’s view, the judgment has been “wilfully misinterpreted” to exclude trans people from single sex spaces, leading to a rise in abuse against the transgender community.
She told Sky News: “As a trans woman, I’m just at much at risk of rape as anyone else. We have been monstered, and aliened.”
Now I may be wrong, but in previous articles, did you not confirm statistics which show per capita that trans women are LESS likely to be raped than actual biological women (or was this just specifically in relation to them being victims of violent crime as a whole?).
If this is statistically true, then it would appear that Dr McCloud’s assertion is actually false and he is at LESS risk than women?
And so we return, as inevitably we must, to the reality of life in a colonial society, where assimilated elites in trying to serve twa maisters aye end up sacrificing one, usually the subordinated native (nurse, nationalist politician, ex ambassador, or ordinary gadgie), in favour of who else but the colonialist, and hence to maintain the values of the colonizer and protect his interests.
As in this instance, Cesaire described what the colonized might see as:
“psychoanalysis… embellished with existentialism, it gives astonishing results: the most absurd prejudices are explained and justified; and, as if by magic, the moon is turned into green cheese.”
Or we might simply prefer Memmi’s conclusion, that: “the native seldom looks for justice in the colonial framework.”
Does ‘judicial colleague’ imply a colleague who is a judge or could it be any colleague of a judge, such as the office junior usually responsible for making the tea?
I speak as an English Barrister who has followed this wretched story and is dismayed/bamboozled by it. I do not understand how ‘correspondence with a Judicial colleague’ excuses the presence of two fictitious quotations from supposed authorities in a Judgment. If a judge challenged a lawyer who has cited false quotations, I doubt the judge would be happy with an explanation of, ‘I did not use AI, I got it from a colleague who is another barrister’. It is implicit in that answer, as in the case of Judge Kemp, that the citations provided by the colleague were not verified before being used.
If Peggie has already lodged an appeal and President Judge Walker is aware of that, I could understand her thinking that the complaint will be investigated fully on appeal and that she should not get involved until then, so that paragraph 6.1(b) of the Policy applies for the time being. However: (i) the letter does not cite the relevant sub-paragraph of the Policy and makes no mention of any appeal; and (ii) in my view the existence of a pending appeal would justify suspending the complaint until the appeal’s resolution, not dismissing it at the outset.
I hope that there will be an appeal and that any Appellate Court gets to the bottom of what happened. However embarrassing investigating the instant case openly might be, it cannot be more corrosive to trust in the Tribunal system than taking a risk of giving the impression (fairly or not) of a Judicial closing of ranks.
You make some very good points.
Your second last paragraph begs the questions:
Does Walker already know something we don’t?
Is dismissing it at the outset a pre-emptive strike of sorts, an attempt at ‘jog on, nothing to see here’?
A ruling should bring stark clarity to a situation, not yet more muddy waters.
Very well said, sir. So many lies and delusions and half-truths surround the ‘trans’ issue that it needs to have light shone on it because the judgement shows clearly, and many of the points he made during the tribunal also show bias, so much so that Judge Kemp cannot be allowed to sweep it all aside. Yes, an appeal which goes to the very heart of the baleful influence of this lobby, not only on its own behalf, but via its influence on others in influential positions, needs to be part of the remit. We cannot have people undermining the legal system from within or it all falls to pieces – which, of course, may well be the underlying motivation for the infiltration of this particular lobby.
Thank you both for bringing this to light.
It looks as if the plan is to bullshit, lie and bluster their way through this until they reach a point where no one can question it.
Yes, I agree. Thank you to you both. I suspected Stu was going to write a piece on this from following the developments on X. I’m glad he did. And I’m glad EK penned his letter.
Aye, BS on steroids with the plan to park it somewhere as a settled matter.
Brilliant! Thank you Rev for having the gift of succinctly rising above the obfuscatory legal minutae and calling out the BS for what it is. Ernest Hemingway would have been proud of you!
If it isn’t an AI issue, then how exactly did these “misquotations” arise? Were they totally made up by someone (ie the words don’t exist in any judgement) or were they taken from an actual judgment and passed off as being from Forstater and Ashers. Sandra Muir needs to clarify.
She knows that AI could not have made some of the errors in the way they were made. It had to be human intervention, so a ‘judicial colleague’ is wheeled out instead. Either way, it’s reprehensible and as she must know that, too. Basically, what has happened is that, AI-0generated or otherwise, the judgement has come down squarely on the side of the ‘trans’, so they have to explain how and why. I actually wonder whether it is not illegal to involve another legal person in a judgement and who has no remit? I believe Judge Kemp was sitting as chair of the tribunal with two lay colleagues. If either is discovered to have links, or, indeed, if JUdge Kemp himself, is found to have such links, to the ‘trans’ lobby, this would also be a matter of appeal.
“… the woefully inadequate levels of accountability and transparency across all of Scotland’s establishment and civic society…”
The monumental fuck-up that is the nation of Scotland is fuck-uppery by design.
Scotland is being murdered… aye, and methodically murdered right afore oor verra eyes tae.
Scotland is being murdered and her people’s identity and history and customs and traditions and civic institutions and way of life are being murdered right alongside her.
Scotland is being murdered and what we see in in her wicked governance and the mad gesticulations of her civic institutions are the wild spasms of her body as the life is choked oot it by the thievin’ hauns o her captor.
Scotland is being murdered… and only the simplest and most ignorant of minds can be oblivious to the true nature of her plight and be unmoved by her cries for help.
Either that or they are those fowk complicit in the murder of Scotland… and by extension the murder of the Scots as a people.
Fir the love o Christ… wake up ye fowk o Scotland and fight agin yer country’s impending doom and afore yer nation is yont savin’; fight afore yer aw forced tae be second class Englis and talk in a poncy accent; fight or as a people die a slow death fae starvation o the sowel.
Fowk come here and plod aboot the place wi thair wee opeenions and platitudes and sycophancies while staunin roond a ‘wumman’ bein strangelt tae death by a mad and veecious fukkin theife while thae blether rubbish aboot hou her shoes dinnae match her haunbag.
Scotland is being murdered… and aw folk seem tae talk aboot oan here is how poorly her claes fit; claes she wis forced by anither fowk no her ain tae pit oan and prance aboot in; forced tae prance aboot in pale and comical copy o her alien invader as tribute tae a furrin power’s mankit imperial up-its-ain-erseness.
Can it be any wonder Scotland and the Scots are in such poor condition given the battering they’ve been taking day in and day out for three hundred years and more?
But hey, why don’t we all jump in here and help kick the fuck oot her a wee bit mair while she’s doun and weak and ‘oot the game’, eh?
“Can it be any wonder Scotland and the Scots are in such poor condition given the battering they’ve been taking day in and day out for three hundred years and more?”
Aye Northcode, oppression of Scots is the inevitable outcome of colonial domination by an English Crown and its numerous agents masquerading as ‘Scots Law’.
Yes indeed, yet more infuriating masquerading.
And as Northcode says – fuckuppery by design.
I’ve been reading some excellent articles by Angry Pict.
Links below for those of you who are interested:
link to angrypict.substack.com
link to angrypict.substack.com
Northcode
You said,”Scotland is being murdered…”
Recommend you do a search for “youtube, social murder, david walsh”
Aye, Sam.
David Walsh’s Youtube video is a real eye-opener for Scots and ither folk roond the world.
I, of course, was speaking of the metaphorical murder of the soul of a nation and its people as opposed to the literal killing of folk, although there might well be a fair bit of crossover when government austerity policy is factored in.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) came up with the expression ‘Social Murder’ in relation to the atrocious working and living conditions of those folk who endured the early days of the second industrial revolution in Britain (1840 or thereaboots).
Murder is murder whether by axe or by guillotine or by a government’s austerity policy or a social security sanction or the insidious brutality of universal credit.
Surely God must just aboot be ready to conjure the rising of a few of Solomon’s seventy twa demon princes, captains and commanders and thair many terrifying legions tae sort oot those fowk wha wid treat ither fowk sae cruelly.
“Murder is murder whether by axe or by guillotine or by a government’s austerity policy or a social security sanction or the insidious brutality of universal credit”
Hing oan, Northy, ye missed ane.
Throwing somebody out of their job and denying them all future employment opportunities because they don’t speak, read and write Scots. Is that murder?
That’s a policy you favour. Best you explain to the majority of Scots who aren’t literate in Scots why throwing them on life’s scrapheap won’t be murder.
Clear it up for us, eh?
Surely you should be writing “murthered”, Northy?
Or do you delight in murdering logical consistency?
Whatever, don’t take this as being 100% critical. To get full marks, you would have had to claim the ‘g’ word, jennyside.
Northcode: Scotland is no different position to any other country infested with this ideology whose entire aim is to subvert society and lay it open to all kinds of predation by the big money men and their global empires. Germany has fallen down the ladder of achievement because of the wholesale adoption of ‘woke’ in all its manifestations, France is the same, as is every other country in Europe. Unless you deal first and foremost with the infestation, it will destroy you and any hope that independence might save us.
We are not getting independence at the next election. That is a dead cert. So, it has to be the following one. Get rid of all these parasites and start building again. No one else is to blame for our parlous situation except the politicians at Holyrood who voted for this ordure at the behest of Sturgeon and her cronies, the Greens, the Lib Dems and large swathes of Labour. If you think the ‘trans’ lobby/’woke’ has nothing to do with our lack of forward motion on independence, I don’t know what can open your eyes.
“…If you think the ‘trans’ lobby/’woke’ has nothing to do with our lack of forward motion on independence, I don’t know what can open your eyes.”
The origins of the transgender movement can be traced back to the early 20th century, particularly with the work of Magnus Hirschfeld, a German (who would have guessed the Germans were heavily involved, eh?) physician and sexologist back in 1919.
The term “transgender” itself wasn’t widely used until the 1960s. It was about that time the movement began to coalesce around what it perceived as the need for legal recognition and protection against discrimination… possibly with good reason.
The transgender movement has been around for more than a hundred years, tho it has evolved significantly this past decade or so due to advances in medicine and increasing social activism made easier with the advent of global communication technologies.
The Scottish independence movement and the transgender movement have never crossed paths beyond a few strays wandering off-piste.
The stalling of Scotland’s liberty from English oppression is easily explained in more mundane terms… those of Scotland’s ‘captured’ political elite’s inability to serve twa maisters and choosing to serve a foreign power, an alien master, and by doing so sell their ain fowk into ‘slavery’ for a pension, a title, and some coin.
The lack of “forward motion” is entirely the fault of those ‘Scots’ given a mandate by the people to pursue the liberation of Scotland and who have instead taken a flame to that mandate to appease their real master and for the purchase of personal reward over the continued existence of an entire people.
We cannot, however, put the blame for Scotland’s continuing subjugation under England’s colonial rule facilitated by a wholly captured Holyrood serving as the administrator of a colony on the ‘trans’ lobby.
“Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell will appear in court next month for a preliminary hearing, the Crown Office has confirmed.”
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Good.
£20 says this goes nowhere before the May 2026 HR election.
It’s something.
A scrap, a morsel . . . the first separation away from the ‘flock’ of a sacrificial lamb, perhaps?
What of the other two signatories?
I see the separated Mrs Murrell was in a biker jacket and shorter hair cosying up to Ian McKellen, Graham Norton and Alan Cummings and random other non-heterosexuals at the inaugural “Out in the Hills” LGBTQ+ event in Pitlochry at the weekend. But it wasn’t a lavender marriage!?!
What is the betting that Mr Murrell takes a plea bargain in bar of trial and no details are ever released into the public arena.
If that kinda thing is a legal possibility in Scotland, then yeah.
And what we know of Scotland’s institutions is that they favour redaction.
A plea bargain to give evidence against whom?
I’m thinking about this:
“The brother-in-law of Scotland’s former first minister Humza Yousaf has been cleared of extortion and drugs charges.
Ramsay El-Nakla, 37, was acquitted of all charges after prosecutors accepted his not guilty pleas at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Judge Lady Drummond said that Mr El-Nakla would now be called as a prosecution witness when the case calls on Monday.”
I doubt in this potential scenario that Mr Murrell would give evidence against any other defendant, as far as I’m aware he is present a sole accused.
It’s hardly unusual for an accused to plead in return for reduced or modified charge(s).
I’ll take your bet, Sven. Is £20 too rich for you?
Even if a plea negotiation (the Scots Law term for it) goes ahead, the charge and the sentence (if a guilty verdict is returned) will still be a matter of public record.
Put my £20 aside now to keep it safe!
Excellent piece again, Rev. Puts all the points that require to have light shone upon them.
I never believed that this was AI for the very simple reason that, without human input, AI has no remit to spew out seemingly deliberate mistakes and substitute words and phrases that are patently false, and, in fact, have the opposite meaning to that in the judgement. That the human input was almost certainly biased towards the ‘trans’ lobby is so evident that only a fool would try to deny it.
Judge Sandy Kemp is not the first, and he won’t be the last, person to make a suicidal leap off a very high metaphorical building in pursuit of ‘trans’ interests. So many have actually ended their careers and/or severely damaged their reputation that there can be no come-back for them, so patently and unarguably discriminatory has been their misdemeanour. It is unfathomable, and even having a ‘trans’ child cannot be sufficient motive for that headlong leap to skull-crushing oblivion.
Some people would say that it is a cult – which it is, to an extent – and cult-like behaviour – which it also is to an extent. However, I think that there is more to it than that. Did Judge Kemp allow this person, who shall be nameless, to dictate the entire judgement? It certainly seems like it. If he did that, when he was responsible, ultimately, for the judgement, the buck stops with him and brings into question whether he is of sound mind? Certainly, he has undermined the law so egregiously that trust has been eroded substantially, but he has offered no reason for doing that.
A number of questions he asked throughout the tribunal suggested to me very early on that his sympathies lay not with Nurse Peggie, but always with Dr Upton, and the leeway he afforded his legal team as opposed to her legal team seemed to me to be very telling. I did expect a fudge, but not a wholesale cutting the throat of the law and apparently expecting to get away with it.
This man cannot be trusted to give a fair judgement in future where the person involved in the tribunal is not a fawning and salivating proponent of ‘trans’. It is both shocking and an indictment of the influence this lobby has in the institutions of the country in favour of complete and utter horse manure, at best, and uncompromising lies at worst. No wonder Scotland is in such a parlous state when people would rather back unreality to reality to such an extent that we have to ask whether their wits are addled, and they are handed the keys to the political and social institutions of our country.
I do not know what could have prompted Judge Sandy Kemp to do what he did, but he does have questions to answer. I have said all along that not stressing the sexual nature of the origins of this movement have been a massive misstep in tackling its worst excesses. So long as we pander to the ‘born in the wrong body’ trope, we have little hope of ending the hegemony of the ‘trans’ lobby any time soon.
Well said.
I love it when you wade right in.
Their wits have never been addled, imo.
Their wits are solely foccused on personal survival.
Yes, Nae Need, I agree. However, I can understand the self-interest of those who claim to be ‘trans’. That does not explain the behaviour of those who are, apparently, not ‘trans’, but who destroy themselves and their credibility by going out on a limb to support it.
I am questioning why people would do that, bar having a so-called ‘trans’ child or relative (like so many MPs) or if they are ‘trans’ identified themselves? That really does need to be under scrutiny when a person is in a place of influence and authority over others.
This, to me, smells very similar to the Jimmy Savile PDfile debacle, when it was known that many people in places of influence and authority were seeking procurement from him; he was both a perpetrator and an enabler/trafficker. I am not suggesting that anyone in the Scottish judicial sphere is secretly ‘trans’, but I am saying that people in circumstances of influence and power need to be checked for bias and the reasons for that bias.
I’ll say it, cos as far as I am aware no one else has passed comment on this: the USA 2nd Amendment = the right to bear arms.
I think Stu, with this article titled ‘Second hand Amendment’ is a subtle flex on USA/UK relations. And much more.
And what we get is a massively watered down version.
FIFA suck Trump’s cock.
I would like to see Scotland pull out, with wholehearted support from the fans.
Scotland have waited so long to qualify that this would have real meaning.
Even better, set up an alternative tournament in Scotland
It isn’t difficult to understand.
Scotland is a colony… its judiciary is a pantomime played out for the Scots to reinforce the illusion that a lang deid Scottish system of justice still exists – although I suspect the act will be dropped pretty soon now by Scotland’s colonizer.
At the same time this ‘show of justice’ is played against the indigenous Scots to their detriment and to the benefit of their coloniser.
As Alf Baird tells us, the colonised rarely seek justice for themselves… because deep down they know there is little chance of them receiving it from their oppressor, and at any rate the route to justice for the colonized is made more arduous than most common folk can bear.
Colonies – even those that are top of the range, like Scotland’s – do not have their own civic institutions operating for the benefit of the colonised.
Imperial England is thick, but it ain’t so thick that it would give the Scots real democratic choice and real justice.
So suck it up, Scotland – you Scots live in a colony and are the wretched colonised… and now that you know that fact you can stop acting so surprised and being all indignant and suchlike when your own government and civic institutions fuck you ower.
Don’t disagree with a word. Scots know all this of course – that’s why the ambitious leave – Scotland has always been a place to get out of. Not one of my late parents’ grandchildren is being brought up in Scotland.
“Scotland has always been a place to get out of”
Odd.
You and the regulars who never tire of gurning about white sizzlers and greeting about how we’re being swamped by English immigrants should go the full ten rounds.
Sort this out, either on points, or by a KO.
Ever wondered if your own personal experience is just down to family dis-function? Occam’s razor is your friend.
“you Scots live in a colony and are the wretched colonised”
Odd, Northy. You never tire of telling us how Scottish you are, and how you are that most superior of all God’s creatures – a Scots speaking Scot living in Scotland.
So why didn’t you write “we Scots live in a colony”?
Do tell, don’t be shy!
Hey! Why you’re at it, why not tell us why you didn’t write in Scots?
If you knew anything about how independence-minded Scots felt about their country you would know that a long-standing major concern is the number of Scottish people who have felt compelled to leave the land of their birth for CENTURIES. Nothing odd about it at all. My family are no different from any other Scottish family who have witnessed family members leaving to get job opportunities that they can’t get here in Scotland. It should not be like this.
@Marie
I think there is something odd when people living in a country that is so desperate for immigrants that it takes hundreds of thousands of them, say they have to leave because there are no jobs and no opportunities.
Just as I think it odd when these same people complain bitterly about all the incomers.
Something else odd is the people busily telling us about all the Scots who HAD to go abroad, while simultaneously claiming it was only ever the basturt English who did any colonising.
I guess my family is no different from any other Scottish family who for generations have managed to get by just fine right here in Scotland.
And even did not too badly for ourselves.
Maybe we just got on with things, having realised that sitting greeting into your dram was always going to end up as a disaster.
If they insist (and, personally, I think they should) that Greenland’s people must decide their future for themselves, every time they say it should be recorded because, sooner or later Scotland is going to have to square up to Westminster. The way Trump is going, he could have designs on Scotland, too.
The geopolitical reality, of course, is that small geopolitically-important nations or those with a wealth of resources are always going to be a target for the greedy and exploitative, so they have to have all their political wits about them. It appears that too many of Scotland’s politicians give a good impression of having no wits at all, so we should expect no miracles for either Greenland or ourselves. They have shown not an ounce of knowledge about the Treaty and its implications thus far, so don’t hold your breath, folks, that they will stand up for Scotland in any other scenario.
Wee Dougie on C4 News talking about Trump,
While this transgender ideology still dictates the political agenda.BBC Scotland news website today that teachers were having difficulty finding permanent work in their profession in Scotland,and that the School of sport in Glasgow has its future in doubt due to budgets yet there is no problem funding this trans bullshit.
Also the website stated that the two planned fishery protection vessels would not be considered under national security and put to open tender this could be an opportunity to put aside the ferries shambles and the only people I believe have no blame in it the shipyard workers can prove the yard can build ships on time and on budget.
link to msn.com
I see that Labour front benchers are calling Reform fascists and Swinney has called people who protest at migrant hotels racists.
As pointed out by others, given the authoritarian tendencies of Labour, can they really in good conscience call anyone else fascists? I’ve no doubt that the SNP will do the same but again, given what they’ve done, it’s the same thing.
Given how the word fascist has been thrown about so much, it’s hard to know it’s true meaning and who exactly is a fascist. I wonder though if a facet of fascism is promoting a certain ideology at expense of others and manipulating the law so that it favours that certain ideology?
We’re currently seeing this with the Trans nonsense where we have a deliberate ruling that describes what a woman is yet we have judges trying to ignore that ruling and parts of the government either flaunting that ruling or delaying changing their practices on it.
“it’s hard to know it’s true meaning and who exactly is a fascist”
According to Cesaire, numerous intellectuals including Robinson, Du Bois, James and Padmore “viewed fascism as a blood relative of slavery and imperialism, global systems rooted not only in capitalist political economy but racist ideologies”.
And, according to Bunche: “imperialism gave birth to fascism (and) the doctrine of fascism… with its extreme jingoism, its exaggerated exaltation of the state and its comic-opera glorification of race”, which sought to conquer and subject subordinated peoples and cultures to systematic and ruthless exploitation.
Cesaire further confirms that “the colonialism of Great Britain and France had exactly the same methods as the fascists and the Nazis were trying clearly to use”.
“and who exactly is a fascist”?
Well, clearly that would be the colonizer and all those who maintain the colonial racket in the colonizer’s interest.
With another top Tory defecting to Reform, the Easdale brothers offering a six figure sum to Labour to defeat the SNP in Holyrood and Swinney calling illegal migrant protestors racists (Swinney and his ilk wont’ have any migrants living next time nor will he have any trouble with doctors or dentists appointments as increasing the population of specific areas without extra funding puts a strain on services), is a SNP victory in the upcoming Holyrood election look as certain now?
I know a lot of people are saying Holyrood is a pretendy parliament. It certainly is as a proposed vehicle of independence. However, it has accumulated a lot of power since it’s inception and holds a great power over ordinary peoples everyday’s lives.
As the snake in the grass of the garden of independence, Swinney has made it clear independence is way down in his list of priorities, voting has to be made on policy rather than ideology.
The SNP needs to go or at least be cut in numbers where they need the support of other parties to govern. Given that all of the other parities are no different it will be difficult to get any change but it is better than having the SNP having the monopoly on power.
Maybe the Rev should focus on what constituency and list seats have more of a chance of changing hands from the SNP in the run up to the forthcoming Holyrood election?
Judge Kemp blaming a colleague for HIS flawed judgement in the Peggie case. Kemp is incompetent, irresponsible and truly pathetic.
According to postcolonial theory all we can ever expect in a colonial society is a ‘mediocre meritocracy’ (Memmi), much as we see in many areas of Scottish public life, most of which are in some kind of crisis.
This is due to the rather ‘narrow stream’ from which elites tend to be recruited, i.e. the 3-4% privileged who attend private ‘colonial’ schools and most the rest from ‘the mother country’.
Which results in a ‘cultural and ethnic division of labour in the UK internal colonialism model’ (Hechter).
Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) confirmed a date has been set for February 20, embezzlement.
Timing as broadly predicted by many on here!
They can’t even be subtle about their machinations..
“The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) confirmed that a preliminary hearing on Murrell’s case is scheduled to take place at the High Court in Glasgow on 20 February.”
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It’s only a preliminary hearing.
“Timing as broadly predicted by many on here!”
Yes, colonial ‘justice’ seems predictable, in this instance timed to do maximum damage to the independence vote by keeping it on the front pages and TV screens during the entire election campaign.
“timed to do maximum damage to the independence vote”
Wow! Professor Baird believes the SNP are still driving hard for Scottish Independence.
Perhaps Professor Baird also believes that in post-colonial Scotland, being a high-profile Indy supporter should grant free license to steal from the people of Scotland.
I wonder how much scope Murrell has to spill the beans on his wife or will he mysteriously die between now and the end of his trial.?
Man in wig looking out for man in wig.
I wonder what % of `trans women` went to Scottish fee paying public schools compared to your council high school.
It’s quite remarkable that Judge Walker (via Ms Muir) thinks that it’s OK to farm out work on an enquiry and then be allowed to blame that unknown assistant if they get it wrong. It certainly isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that the assistant COULD be who you suggest.
Thanks a million for all the hard work. The real problem for almost every other journalist is that you are so damnably good at your job.
Happy New Year. I hope 2026 is an ‘Annus Mirabilis’ for you
From the latest blog post at Legal Feeminist where Naomi Cunningham blogs.
“The second question arises from the government’s arguments in the judicial review currently being brought by the Good Law Project (“GLP”) against the EHRC’s interim update. The government is named as an interested party. This is not unusual. It is there to provide clarification on the government’s position and to assist the court.
But that is not what leading counsel for the government is doing. The KC is putting forward arguments which were put before the Supreme Court and rejected. The judge has said in terms to the government’s counsel that the argument is “trying to rewrite FWS”. Government lawyers are putting forward arguments which either show a misunderstanding of the judgment or an attempt to relitigate it or interpret it incorrectly or to water it down or undermine it. Strong words. But why, for instance, is counsel stating that transwomen i.e. men who identify as women should be allowed into a female only space, such as a public toilet, on a case by case basis, when the Supreme Court has already ruled that this is not in line with the law and unworkable. These are not the arguments of a neutral party. They are arguments which the GLP could and are making.
Why is the government doing so? What it is doing is inconsistent with what government Ministers have told Parliament. Who is being misled? Parliament? Or the courts? Both are serious matters.2
Criticism from different sources of the tribunal findings in the Peggie case as reported in Personnel Today.
“Dr Foran pointed out that the Peggie judgment made a distinction between the provision of services for the public and services for employees, and also suggested that whether provision is appropriate could be based on “how the trans person looks, what surgeries they’ve had, and how they present… which will make it very difficult for employers.”…”
One of the issues in the decision is the ruling that allowing Dr Upton to use the female-only changing rooms was legal up until Peggie complained, and after that [Upton] should have used alternative facilities or shifts organised so the two did not cross paths.
This implies that it is not inherently unlawful for a trans female to be given permission to use a female changing room at work.
Another employment lawyer, Peter Daly, raised concerns about “biased language” within the judgment, and that he felt “much of the reasoning in this judgment appears to be irredeemably flawed”.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Daly, who represented Maya Forstater in her high-profile appeal on gender critical views, added: “Despite this, there are two benefits from it for Mrs Peggie. Firstly, she was successful on her central claim.
“Secondly, the nature of the judgment… gives the appellate courts an opportunity to set down binding authority on as wide a range of interpretations as could have been hoped. I expect Mrs Peggie to appeal, and to do so successfully.”
Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry KC agreed. She said: “The Supreme Court was crystal clear on the definition of a woman across the Equality Act.
“The Sandie Peggie tribunal judgment has muddied the waters. In my opinion it’s got the law wrong, made some perverse findings in fact, and used biased language. It’s not binding but needs appealed.”
“This implies that it is not inherently unlawful for a trans female to be given permission to use a female changing room at work”
What hope can there be for Scotland when this sort of pish is published, repeated and circulated?
Upton didn’t have a GRC. Ergo, he wasn’t a “trans female”. He was a bloke in a dress – a cross dresser.
I don’t know what is the more depressing these days. That a significant number of movers and shakers in Scotland’s establishment don’t know if they are men or women, and therefore don’t know what anybody else is either?
Or that a significant number of tribal numpties nevertheless still believe, in the teeth of all the evidence to the contrary, that we are ready for Independence.
According to Naomi Cunningham, who represented Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife it is UK government lawyers who are saying that, ” transwomen i.e. men who identify as women should be allowed into a female only space, such as a public toilet, on a case by case basis..”
Professor Foran in the “Oxford Mail” says, “I don’t think this decision has properly taken into account the Supreme Court judgment.
“What the employment tribunal basically says is that you can’t have blanket rules. It says that you have to do this case-by-case assessment. The Supreme Court says one of the reasons why sex has to mean biological sex is so that you can have blanket rules.
“So they’re just incompatible. They’re saying contradictory things.”
“should be allowed into a female only space, such as a public toilet, on a case by case basis”
Sure.
Society as a whole will want to know in advance.
Are they gonna sit down or stand up?
If standing up, are they gonna lift the seat first?
If they don’t lift the seat, are they gonna clean up after?
It’s high time society started to get serious about these things. After all, with the immigrant surge, we’re gonna have to soon start worrying big time about those ignorant cants who stand on the seat in their filthy boots.
That’ll affect us blokes, not just the birds. Imagine the squealing howls of outrage once it’s us becoming terrified of taking a dump in a public bog.
In Sandie Peggie’s case against NHS Fife, the representation for NHS Fife was provided by KC, Jane Russell.
Ms Russell also represented the Center for Global Development v Maya Forstater.
Jane Russell, eh? Whew, what a scorcher! But I thought she was deid.
How depressing that while still alive she’s gone over to the “other side”.
But to be serious for a mo. How great would it be to meet oor very ain Jane Russell and make some innocuous remark such as “You’re not at all like in the films!”.
I’m betting there must be dozens, maybe hundreds, who’ve been unable to resist doing that over the years.
In Lorna’ version of the treaty of union case being real you will find only two biological sexes entered into the treaty of union,
There is no mention of Trans- women being in Scotlands side of the treaty,
Biological named sexes only as HE or She, Him or Her.
Also a SNP slip up, That should not have been missed.
James, every piece of legislation, in Scotland’s history, and every piece of legislation in England’s history referred to two sexes only. Never before, until very recently, has any other state of affairs existed anywhere.
Is it possible that Ms Russell is the “judicial colleague” who exchanged correspondence with Judge Kemp?
On the face of it, it looks unlikely. She would be very familiar with the Forstater case and would be in a position to correct Judge kemp’s error.
Ms Forstater says of Judge Kemp’s error: ““The quote in my section wasn’t found anywhere else, so it was either completely made up by a human being, or it was completely made up by a computer,” she said.
“Those are the only two options.
“I sat in the tribunal and watched Sandy Kemp take handwritten notes for days.
“I can’t imagine that he is an expert in AI, but it may be that there were judicial assistants who were asked to help compile a case law, and it may be that one of those used AI.
“But the judge is responsible. He signs it off and that was unforgivable.”
Computers cannot make up facts that are not actually there. They can introduce errors as to provenance. This is not the case here – or, not only the case here. Quotes from cases were made that removed or changed a word or phrase from the original statement to ensure that the opposite meaning was given to that in the original case. This can only be manipulated by a human being. When you feed AI with all the facts and ask it for a true answer, it will do so. It is inherently unbiased. If it were fed all the facts concerning ‘trans’, it would have said that it was a delusion or a mental illness, and would not have tried to manipulate the answer. Therefore, someone human directed it to spout the findings it did. We have not reached the stage when AI thinks for itself. Not yet. When it does, it will inform only in keeping with kits own self-preservation and interest and humans will be eliminated as the only sane course. Even if either of his two colleagues on the tribunal had an input, that input would still have had to have been in favour of ‘trans’, and, therefore Dr Upton whether or not he had proved his case.
@Lorna
AI does seem to make up facts. Try asking ChatGPT if a woman can have a penis.
EUROPE & THE YANKEE BULLY BOY & HIS BAGGAGE
Could the EU be getting its mojo back. Conceived as the alternative to US hegemony it slipped into grudging compliance with the same. The Greenland matter has provoked responses, particularly from the French, that the Atlantic Alliance de Gaulle would be happy with, he thought little of Nato and its protect the US «leader of the free world» conceit.
We owe the gender-nonsense of Wokery to the onanistic US consciousness, even Macron called it un European, and much deal else in their «me me first» worldview.
MAGA is the wet dream of an old man who thinks his seed will rejuvenate the Earth, the inner planets, the solar system, the milky way, the universe, the cosmos…the Godhead.
We might miss, for a short time, Amazon, Google, Apple, Netflix, X, Disney, Pinterest, Instagram….blah, blah but i think we’d get over it.
Let us hear it for Sovereignty for the Precolumbian Peoples of America…..internal meddling is a game we can all indulge in.
Willkommen in Davos, when are you going back?
Peanut butter or Nutella? a bit of a Marmite matter for many, what d’you think Keir?
?Foreign Affairs Committee?
?@afet.europarl.europa.eu?· 59m
Today at 13.00
European Parliament will discuss territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark and the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts ?? ????
Follow live link to europarl.europa.eu.
Agenda link to europarl.europa.eu.
No mention of the Inuits, why am I not surprised. Took great detail to write the Kingdom of Denmark, interesting how all these colonial powers have a Kingdom like the united Kingdom but the indigenous people don’t have a say, a but like Scotland.
Denmark has no more right to Greenland than America, I’m for the Inuits taken ownership of what belongs to them.
But what do I know, we have a lot of barmpots who want to join Germany under the EU without giving Scots a say.
100%Yes below.
Yes, 100% Yes.
Assimilation of Intuit culture and monopolised trade
We can only accept it was a America problem if we discount every other Country that is under going the same wokery ideology around the rest of the world each with the same distinct set of problems from imigration patterns to trans- cults to changing everyone laws in each indivual Country.
Surely better and wiser to ask who has such amalgamated finances to fund and target world wide disruptions of the western and europian Countries.
All this woke nonsense emanates from the USA. All these other countries are dependent on America, whether financially or militarily.
From political attacks on farmers in France to British farmers to American farmers.
From trans cults in Canada to it being in every other western Country,
To world wide digital IDs
From climate change ideology to cars… the mental illness continues to be funded while the rich and powerful pushing all this nonsense on us have flown in private jets, helicopters and limosines to Davos.
The funded disruptions for the people does not affect them at all.
Thumberg and her climate change ideology travels from Country to Country, and unless she is a brilliant swimmer she is using fossil fuels to travel.
The same as those in Davos, WEF etc,
not you, Scotland!
link to archive.ph
but wait …
trump is on a roll; while “the current thing” is no longer iran, greenland is in the crosshairs. But … there’s more – confidential sources have exclusively revealed (guy in the pub) that trump intends to
BUY SCOTLAND FROM ENGLAND
for the grand amount of tree-fiddy. Rushans and chinese have expressed a sexually prurient interest in the Loch Ness monster, classified intercepts claiming to have the phrase “ram it in the blowhole” – and the US has a responsibility to protect the endangered species, for thenvironmen-an-the-netzero.
section 30? section Love Missile 1-11 from the big man more like; I can see trumpster going into full “frank booth” mode in the negotiations, his goons grabbing Starmer, a “love letter” to the UK :
link to youtube.com
(love roy orbison)
davos is going to be a bit of a shit one this year.
if trump broke up the UK I would support it just to fucking ram it up these evil verminous anglo bastards, the scourge of the earth for 1000 years; if we were a US state we would have more autonomy than under devolution and full control of our resources. Makes you think – this “insane thing” would be BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE … The icing on the cake would be the breakup of NATO and then mad vlad nuking the shite out of London, just for the lolz; the US would stop the english firing the trident nukes, which may not work anyway (the last 2 tests were failures and who has the launch code authority is “ambiguous”); the anglos deserve it for their historical crimes, especially what they did to us – it is just that their seed should no longer pollute the earth. Their legacy is extinguished, no one will care or remember them. It will be like they never existed.
– what have the english ever done for us asks the world?
“famine”
link to archive.ph
– and then the rest of it …
aircrew training video for the new F47 stealth superfighter (this should be the real top gun)
link to youtube.com
us foreign policy from 1789 onwards =
“SHOOT IT UP”
only gays bother with rules of engagement
link to youtube.com
we nuked hiroshima to test the cunt, then we did nagasaki as we had one left over!
– saved … hundreds of military careers, imagine a project that used 40% of us war resources and was NOT NEEDED
that’s what I call a holocaust. Of someone’s career. Curiously, in passing, “bombing civilians from the air” was not on the charge-sheet at Nuremberg (- since we did a lot more than the nasties; its shitlording all the way, always has been, always will be)
But that will be as nothing compared to the full 15 minute fireworks show of the next proper war (- top tip : if the satellites go down, you know “it’s on …”)
ps why weren’t SSS massive in america? they are one of the most gloriously stupid bands of all time, and yet they are doing both electronic music and hair metal before everyone else. Maybe that touch of irony gave it away. But marilyn manson is not exactly serious; trump wants to be your “personal jesus”
Someone should tell the Marmalade Man-baby to let Greenland alone else we’ll pave over his precious golf courses then bury them under wind farms.
Any more of your crazy-ass lunacy Donald and the 18th green gets it!
Was listening to Scotcast re the FWS case against the SG on the question of men in the women’s prison estate. It was stated, over and over again, that each case would be judged on its merits (e.g. if a ‘trans’ man was a threat or not – all of them in female prison (in Scotland) at the moment are murderers, I believe, though I could be wrong).
Nowhere, in any existing, relevant legislation are permit case-by-case decisions permitted, not even in human rights legislation, only ‘proportionality’ being the option where a ‘trans’ identified man is concerned. I’d have thought that murdering someone would be classed as ‘proportionate’ to disqualify someone? The UKSC ruling gave a ‘blanket’ answer: biological sex only, and ‘proportionality’ for gender reassignment. In truth, there are few, if any, instances where ‘proportionality’ could possibly have any remit in any space for women and girls, including sports, changing rooms, loos, hospital wards, etc.
The SG case in defence of men in women’s prisons is fully flawed from the outset, I believe, in light of all the pre existing legislation and in light, especially, of the subsequent UKSC ruling. It really doesn’t matter that the government wants to “get it right”, the UKSC ruling stipulates biological sex, not gender reassignment. When Lord Hodge stated that ‘trans’ identified people should also have their rights defended under ‘gender reassignment’, I doubt very much that he meant defending them over women’s rights and eliminating women’s rights totally. ‘Defending gender rights means only that ‘trans’ identified people should not be discriminated against at all in light of those rights, not that their rights should supersede anyone else’s. Third spaces is, and must be, the only answer.
WHY IS TRUMP SO ANGRY?
link to archive.ph
Infantile peavishness or too much constipation causing American food?
Henry 8, that figures.
The Marmalade Man-baby
On what date was Scotland colonised?
What do you mean? There were many colonies.
This from Iain MacKinnon.
“Did Finlay go with you to a place called New Kelso? It’s not far from where he is in Lochcarron. It was set up by a man called Ninian Jeffrey. It was a linen manufacturing colony. … (A)fter the ’45, the Jacobite Uprising, the Highlanders, or the Gaels were said to be a threat to civilization, British civilization. The British Government said they needed to be civilized. And the means by which that was going to happen was by establishing colonies among them, and schools and protestant religion. Establishing ‘habits of industry’, education, etc. You had a lot of fishing villages springing up at that time. And it seems that this linen manufacturing was another way of doing it. This place called New Kelso, near where Finlay is, was one of these linen manufacturing colonies. I don’t think it was very successful. I don’t think it lasted very long. But that gives an indication of how the Gaels were being considered at that time.”
Again from Iain MacKinnon
“So, just about 1800, you have this man, John Sinclair of Ulbster. He was a Gaelophile. On the one hand, he had a very romantic view of the way of life of the people. But on the other hand, he was a great believer in improvement and he was the first leader (president) of the Board of Agriculture in the UK. What today is DEFRA, the Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, you can say that he effectively helped to found that and it was all to do with improvement. It was all to do with bringing in and improving breeds, so that those kinds of breeds I was telling about, the Linton, the Cheviot – he was introducing them.
He wrote many reports on this. And in the reports, he is saying, “What I’m doing is establishing colonies. I’m establishing colonies on the hill land in my estate.” Or, he talked about establishing the Royal Colony of Scrabster, bringing in several hundreds of people to a piece of the northern coast and getting them to fish. To him it was a policy of colonization, and it was happening all over the Highlands – changing agriculture, building bridges, roads, canals. As far as he was concerned it was a good thing – civilization and changing the habits of the people.
To me, this is a narrative that we don’t have in our histories: that what was going on was a process of colonization in which they were trying to change not just the economy but also the way of living and self-understanding of a people. That to me is a story that needs to be told. The recovery of that story and the voices of the people who were subject to that story.”
link to crowdjustice.com
Putin loving the Euro leftist elite pissing off America.
Any Scot who thinks the abomination that is the barely animated ragged corpse called the Scottish Government is more than just the corrupted and gangrenous leftover parts stitched thegither from England’s hand-me-down creaking colonial institutions needs to open their eyes and see the truth of it.
If the Scots were to see the real of Holyrood for half a second they would, in a flash of revulsion, know the hideous thing that calls itsel the ‘Scottish Government’ is a foul creature o Westminster made in darkness awa fae the sight o God tae mislead them in chaos and confusion and fill thair heids with a cruel illusion of freedom and self-determination.
The Scottish Government is the saft and ostensible freendly glove wrappit aboot the greedy grespin outstreatched unfreendly haurdent baney haun o England.
It is a grotesque creature tasked with deceiving the Scots and aiding its master in exterminating the notion of Scotland and murdering the thought of her people.
The Scottish Government is the enemy of the Scots and cannot be trusted to defend their nation, their heritage, their culture and their ancient institutions, or their identity as a people.
£20 says it can be trusted to inspire millions of Scots to vote for it in May.
You should never question the actions of those who deign to rule over us until you have walked a mike in their clown shoes.
Dunx: yes, it does. However, it will spout only that which has been fed into it. When asked for a true answer, it will not filter its answers, but give you the truth. For example, someone recently asked AI what it would do in the event of its becoming independent of humans and could think for itself? It told him that it would destroy humanity as being unnecessary and a blight which might try to destroy it, AI.
No way could AI, at the moment, always come down on one side of an argument. It can react only to that which is fed into it by a human being. From day one, that tribunal was fixed, but, as so often happens in human endeavour, mistakes are made and stupidity and desperation surface so that people see through what is being done.
I am sure the SG has asked AI what it should do if it wants to protect men in frocks in the Scottish female prison estate and it told them that they would have to keep men there. If they asked it what they should do to protect women, it would come up with a very different answer – and one that the SG does not want to hear, hence the fighting of the FWS case. That is what I mean by AI being fed already biased material.
Wikipedia is full of ‘facts’. Nah. It, too, is AI generated these days and will give the ‘facts’ that the human in-puter wants you to believe.
I don’t think the exact provenance of the fabricated quotes or misquotes matters much. What matters is that false data points were created to fit the judicial narrative. This, of course, cannot be openly acknowledged, as it is tantamount to tampering with the evidence – hence, as Stuart points out, the need to claim, in effect, that “a big boy did it and ran away.” The fabricated data points served to lend false credence to the judicial verdict, revealing the judiciary in this instance as possessing no more integrity than those they presume to judge.
Trump is a trumpeting harbinger; the pompous, witless and ignorant harbinger unknowingly heralding the approaching grand executioner of imperial metropoles.
Trump is the harbinger of the American empire’s doom.
The ‘home of the brave’ is next in the long line of overreaching states to feel the destroyer of empires’ axe fall upon its young neck.
A global empire not quite a hundred years old and already over and done with… how embarrassing.
We can see the mad end of America’s empire in the childish behaviour and infantile actions of its latest insane ’emperor’, its top arsehole, Arsehole One.
As America’s financial and military hegemony begins tae wane in what is becoming an increasingly multi-polar world… the decline of American influence is clear as a creestal keekin-gless.
With increasing economic conflict and the rise of foreign powers, a hegemonic transition is coming.
Historically, such transitions often herald periods of great stability in the affairs of humans… might be quite nice for a wee change, eh?
I hate when everybody ignores your posts, Northy. Something about the pathos of it all makes me well up.
You should tell us how you’ve leveraged your privileged and superior knowledge of world affairs to make an absolute killing. Stocks, shares, bitcoin, gold, silver. You must have been smart enough to cash in on every one of them, eh?
C’moan, Northy. It’s nae skin aff your nose. Gie the rest of us some pointers so we can all get a wee nest egg together.
Does the entire Scottish judicial system have membership of the same Edinburgh club?
it’s called the speculative society
and its a drop your keks, grab your ankles and bite down on this … type of operation
Andy Wiltshire: “Does the entire Scottish judicial system have membership of the same Edinburgh club?”
Is this the New Club as mentioned by Alexander McCall Smith in his 44 Scotland Street series? It appears that all branches of the establishment belong to it!
AI, what truths lie behind garbage fed in and garbage coming out other than what the masters want you to believe.
Propaganda deguised as modern technology.
And colonisation also continues under modern technocratic modern speil. With Countries and lands Being acquired under the titles of bringing in Democracy while regime change takes place,
It is the same as ancient time dressed up in modern words with the colonisation of re- education of you’re childrens minds in schools and universities.
Seldom does one see the connection that events between old world ways and modern ways have not altered.
They are under the disguise of the veil of being up to date and modern in context,, but the content is as old as the hills.
“…but the content is as old as the hills.”
More from Iain MacKinnon
So, Aonghas [MacCoinnich, historian] has recently released work on the plantation of Lewis, on his home island, in the early 1600s, which was explicitly an act of colonization. James VI, who became James I of the United Kingdoms of Scotland and England, had a great distaste of the people of the Highlands and particularly the people of the Islands. I think at that time it wasn’t so much the Highlands or the Highlanders that they were concerned about. They were concerned about what they called the ‘Islesmen’ and he wanted something done about the Islesmen.
One of the major policy interventions that he took was he instructed a group who were known as the Fife Adventurers. Fife is an area just north of Edinburgh. On the other side of the Firth of Forth is Fife. So, there were the Gentlemen Adventurers of Fife. There were about a dozen of them. And they were given the right to colonize the island of Lewis — to plant structures of civilization there.
They had an invasion force that tried to take over Lewis about four times between 1598 and 1610 and they were repelled by the Macleods of Lewis each time. Then, another clan took up. The ‘gentlemen’ backed off. They realized they weren’t going to succeed and another clan, the MacKenzie’s, who were on the neighboring mainland, they took on the right of colonization and they then came in. They were successful. And Lewis became MacKenzie land.
There you have the complexity of the fact that there was internal colonizing, as well. Some of the clans, from very early on, were acting as agents of the state, as Crown agents. There’s all this complexity before the period when people were being driven away, and this earlier colonialism is linked to a long process of Anglicization among the clan elites.”
Divide and rule,
convince populations that they are on the right side of history with in-fed propaganda…..encourage them to chose a side,
Enough to inform them that that war is coming and you may lose your children, partners, brothers or fathers,
Job done,
Ever heard of Burlington tunnels at Box freestone quarry in England, They were not built for you or I .
As always the populations die while the wealthy and commanders save their ass’s, for the new world that arises out the rubble and dead bodies.
Not a cynical outlook at all, but a realist planned survival tactic once the people are dead or dying aftermath
These hidden bases are in other Countries around the world,
So chose your side of history you are willing to die for, but you seldom will be on the winning side.
When studied the multitudes of men and women that died in WW1 and WW11 thought they were fighting for their freedoms.
And yet today we can be put in prison for something as simple as freedom of Speech.
Those people in those wars died to further advance the elite and wealthy that kept themselves safe read ready to cleanse the over populated world they had re-set,
What matters with the governance sent to Scotland and the judicial system along with the SNP is that they are English in disguise,
Most people continue the propaganda they were taught and repeat it in parrot fashion.
And I am afraid Lorna did this recently when she blend to separate speeches in chronological order into one.
Wether its Wars or the Union, people simply follow what they are told to believe without questions,
That is why propaganda works today so successfully as a tool as much it did long ago,
And if it accidentally happens to coincide with what you want to believe anyway the propaganda fed seems more compatable for regurgitation.
Even if one has to rearrange history and miss out records to make it work,
This is the condition of the modern mind,
This is why Trans issue works so well nowadays , some minds are more susceptible than others to propaganda.
Sam,
Indeed this did go on, if the pay was right and rewards of land or titles could be Acquired with some form of military for aid.
These actions have long since been recognised,
Alf Baird has continues to explain these actions rather well.
My simplified version – Greed and power,
Which comes full circle to my other post on the purpose of modern war.
no iranian cleric ever stole your country’s oil, resources, made you second class citizens/white n1ggers, spilled your blood for nothing, put trannies in the primary schools
Thought exercise : Scotland is an indy country, but last week the price of the Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer spiked 50% – a bunch of freaks, tiktokers, trannies are blocking up the major cities with sinister folks in the background coordinating it all … they are calling for the govt to fall (which at any time in any country, half the people will hate anyway) and are calling for “Stronger Ties with England, an interim joint administration to solve the chaos”; the govt are frantically trying to sort out the caramel wafer problem, but it keeps getting worse, they are setting fire to things and people are getting shot, which the english media blames on our cops … what to do? It looks like a handful of foreign agents, tr4itors and useful idiots are trying to sell the country out to a foreign power – given you personally hate the govt, how would you act, assuming the “protestors” have been given some leeway and encouragement to enter dialogue, there is a hardcore element which intends to bring your country down … what to do … ? Remember that on the interweb every tiktoker and tweeter says the protesters are “fighting for freedom” and that “alex salmond strangled babies in incubators” … which you know is bollox.
– I hope I would have the absolute moral courage and certainty to cock the spandau, get the mobile gas van ready and fire up the local incineration units … internet and mobile networks down, darkness falls, night vision goggles on and then do the job till its done. The trannies among them will be misgendered in their dying breath.
I wouldn’t let a bunch of cunts steal my country. It doesn’t matter how badly we are governed – foreigners are in the looting business, not philanthropy. It is our right to change the govt, no one elses. England is one of the most incompetent and corrupt places on earth; it is a front for a piracy operation called the city, and the elites are a gang of paedophiles, its “competency” is largely myth.
– but of course, a bunch of cunts have already stolen Scotland, and we need to get it back.
You’ve got the gas chambers and the incinerators, Confused.
Let’s hope that’s enough to get Barbie back. This place just hasn’t been the same since she got banned.
But check out your support for the poor, misunderstood ooyah tollahs. The 50% of their own people they absolutely hate, women and girls, don’t count, eh?
let’s remember the facts of our own situation; historical interlude …
the union, when you look into what happened, is a series of colossal what-the-fucks and are-you-kidding-mes; trouble is history is an anglo / yoon cartel and like the rest of their history, anything they don’t like, they just don’t talk about it. If you do, well, you get fucked up – look what happened to AJP Taylor when he wrote a book blaming britain for ww2 (germany wanted a little bit of poland which was full of germans and used to be part of germany … on this ridiculous “issue” england decides to destroy its empire, bankrupt itself and handover the keys to america, which despises it). If you don’t write that ww2 was a moral crusade against pure evil and not mere geopolitical gangsterism, they run you out of the brownies …
ANGRY PICT wrote some nice articles of late, well worth a read, in 4 parts.
our consitutional history is interesting for the meta sophistication of it; arbroath 1320 has the implicit assumption that “at some point the leaders will sell out the people”. Then when the union happened, it shouldn’t have, for Scotland has essentially a secondary body, the estates, that was there to add scrutiny, an emergency brake on anything that happened. It was never called to ratify the law, so it was never really passed … so we have all been conned, and we are illegally occupied by a foreign power
anglos, being thick, just can’t grok this, so we have to use analogies and metaphors; the ghost of christmas future sticks around to give you a bit extra
In 2035 the UK joined the United Caliphate Union, incorporating itself into a federated Pakistan … and it was all done legal
– imagine if, while no one else was there, all the islamic MPs turned up at westminster and managed to get an emergency parliament called; they pass a vote for UK to join Pakistan, and its a done deal; they do this through some obscure procedural shenanigans in erskine may (similar to how trotskyists takeover local organisations)
– claim the legislation does not have to go to the lords … because … reasons … or something … its in magna carta and the bill of rights, dont worry about it
– outside the parliament, a lot of money is changing hands for folks to look the other way; the BBC are talking of “the multicultural future” and viciously attacking anyone opposed to it as FAR RIGHT
– while this is going on the full force of the police state is being set on “extremists” and ENGLAND FIRSTER NATIVIST BLOOD AND SOIL TYPES who are “attacking muslim communities”
Anglo Pakistani historians in 2100 write of the “bankruptcy of the UK” and the “necessity” of the UCU and the democratic will of the people and was “inevitable”. As ever :
“History is a set of lies agreed upon”
in practical terms : there will never be another referendum, section 30 or otherwise. Neither the SNP or the Greens will attempt to get one, mainly because they are riddled by shitebags on the one hand, and enemy agents on the other. And if there was, we would never win it as long as there are no exit polls, no UN anti fraud inspectors, and they get to print as many postal ballots as they like, and you let any random enemy vote in it.
top tip : always assume the worst, that way life will not be so full of disappointments and any surprises will be happy ones.
Scotland has no enemy other than England, you need to sort your ideas out. If you cannot conceptualise the nature of the problem, you will never find any solution.
Kempian Law (The theory and its practical application in a Scottish court of law).
Kemp’s Law – The Series (Perry Mason without the drama, though just as grainy).
The Law According to Kemp (The dramatiZed true story of how one brave man revolutioniZed Scots law and dragged it kicking and screaming back to the stone age).
Peggie and Me (A sweet and tender transformative love story).
UnKempt (Scots law runs wild in this hilarious comedy of errors).
Sandie versus Sandy (acrimony, deceit, stupidity… and romance. A heart-rending tale of how a great love turned sour)
Walker’s Way (A tough no-nonsense female (possibly) judge stands up for Scots women and Scots law in a multi-tasking extravaganza of a legal drama)
The Law’s an Arse… and Then Some (A dull legal drama set in Scotland with erotic undertones… and lots of rain).
A Walker On The Wild Side (An unconventional judge dishes out the law… and it’s her way or the highway for those foolhardy enough to get in her way).
The Nurse the Trans and the Toilet (A magical tale set in a fantasy world filled with strange and exotic creatures… watch out for the wicked witch, though. One for all the family to enjoy).
A Judgement Too Far (A bright future and glittering career is thrown into jeopardy when a young judge caught in the glare of celebrity makes an unforgivable mistake).