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Ukraine, Diplomacy and War

When politicians in power are extremely unpopular, they grenerally turn to milit...

Groundhog Decade

Welcome back to what will hopefully be normal service after we’ve been spending ...

Why I’m Never Leaving Twitter

You just don’t get this sort of quality content on Bluesky. (They’d faint, poor ...

Islamic Resistance Movements and Israel

We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Isr...

The thickness of blood

Much of Scotland, and indeed the rest of the UK and beyond (the story below ran ...

UN Peacekeepers Watch Civilians Massacred

On 26 January, 26 unarmed civilians were shot dead by Israel and 147 wounded in ...

For Mridul And Sandy

This site hasn’t had much nice to say about the former CEO of Edinburgh Rape Cri...

Bricked-up windows

Readers may have noticed recent speculation in the media (based on the wording o...

The Front On The Volga

As alert Wings readers know, we’re fond of a WW2 analogy from time to time. The ...

The End Of The Reich

For 10 years in Germany between 1935 and 1945, Jewish people were not legally hu...

The smirking scorpion

Let’s take a passing moment just to reflect on how grotesque this is. When she w...

United Nations Censures UK Over Abuse of Terrorism Act ...

Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written jointly to the UK government demanding ...

Seeding the briar patch

This is the SNP’s latest messaging. Ministers, MSPs, payroll drones and the cent...

Closer To Home

It’s a well-known truism that if a newspaper headline is phrased as a question, ...

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