The Paper Teapot
As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office...
View ArticleIn the tropical heat
We never got a response to our last job application, but we’re not easily dispirited here at Wings, so we’re trying again. So little is happening in Scottish politics at the moment that we need...
View ArticleThe Surrender Code
When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time. Because give him some credit, he’s not lying. Since the day he was – let’s phrase this carefully – chosen as SNP leader, Yousaf has...
View ArticleNothing Changes Here
One year ago today, Nicola Sturgeon suddenly resigned as First Minister. And what a spectacular 12 months it’s been for the Yes movement since her departure. That, of course, is a somewhat selective...
View ArticleGuided By Voices
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s...
View ArticleTwo houses both alike
This is so freaky I had to check they weren’t quoting each other. It’s like a game show. ? Just a couple of nice well-brought-up Hutchesons’ Grammar boys in smart suits, there, thinking the same,...
View ArticleThe Future In Numbers
We’ve been thinking about this again. Because we’re still more than two years out from the next Holyrood election, and it’s really hard to see how it’s going to pan out. So let’s throw some figures...
View ArticleOperation Brunchflan Update
As the long-running police probe into SNP finances continues, Wings received some slightly surprising news today in the form of an FOI response. Based on reports from various trustworthy sources we’d...
View ArticlePolitics 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 ArticleWho Hates The Jews?
A couple of things happened at the Scottish Parliament this week. They’re worth taking a moment to compare. During a peaceful democratic debate in the Holyrood chamber, Mason noted that “it is not...
View ArticleThe best form of defence
More than three months have passed since Alex Salmond launched a lawsuit against the Scottish Government for its grotesquely botched handling of false allegations of sexual misconduct against him. With...
View ArticleThe Final Betrayal
The Scottish Government have just launched yet another nanny-state “healthy eating” intervention, and to be honest, readers, the cheap-shot open goals just queued up. Our first instinct was to do a...
View ArticleNip and tuck
It’d be nice if the Scottish Government could make up its mind whether it wants booze to be more expensive or not. If only so we could all stop having our intelligence insulted quite this crassly. The...
View ArticleThe Path Of No Return
This whole clip is worth watching. It appears to be an evidence session at the Scottish Parliament featuring several members of the Scottish Government’s Expert Advisory Group On Ending Conversion...
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...
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