Politics By Dummies
We’re reluctant to even mention the farcical, embarrassing goings-on in the House Of Commons last night, but the very short version is that the SNP somehow contrived to save Keir Starmer from an...
View ArticleYet another fine mess
There’s a Calvin And Hobbes cartoon we like to post on social media when someone’s got themselves in such a pickle that they’re just flailing around desperately firing off every slogan, argument or...
View ArticleWhen there’s no-one left to fight
Everyone’s having a lot of fun with the farcical Hate Crime Act that will finally come into operation in Scotland in just a couple of weeks’ time, fittingly on April Fools’ Day. Even by the Scottish...
View ArticleThe Spirit Of Sheffield
Wings has been regularly pointing out for the last 11-and-a-half years that by far the most reliable indicator of who’s going to win an election isn’t voting-intention polls, but “Who would make the...
View ArticleEverything About You
We’ve just submitted this Freedom Of Information request to Police Scotland: I seek the following information with regard to Police Scotland’s programme of materials surrounding the implementation of...
View ArticleA Very Dark Place
I make no apology for what I am about to write because while I’ve said it before, the time to do so is running out. In a couple of weeks, the Scottish Government’s Hate Crime and Public Order...
View ArticleThe End Of Hate
As of last night, the Hate Monster campaign page on the Police Scotland website looks like this: (Archive version here.) The campaign had been subject to growing mockery and ridicule, not least on this...
View ArticleInto Darkness
Welcome, readers, to what may be the final week of Wings Over Scotland. We’ve been covering the Scottish Government’s horrific, draconian Hate Crime Act for almost four years now. But until this month,...
View ArticleTrebling down
The Cass Review into gender medicine, which has been almost six long years in the making, was finally published this morning, and despite the fears of some – including us – that it was going to be...
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