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<title>ScotlandSpeaks.com | Stop the world and be heard &#45; Wings Over Scotland</title>
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<title>Do You Believe In The Westwood?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/do-you-believe-in-the-westwood</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ As all alert readers will know, this site likes to keep a watchful eye on the shady and disturbing activities of paedophilia-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland. So were were naturally intrigued to hear that they’d hired a new convenor last month. And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Blimey, AI Christopher Walken looks very very ill”, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>You, Believe, The, Westwood</media:keywords>
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<title>Not So Octopus</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/not-so-octopus</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/not-so-octopus</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers will have noticed something of a minor furore in recent days around a boneheaded Scottish Greens candidate (as if there were any other kind) calling for the complete abolition of prisons. So far Kate Nevens – who on the latest polling has a very reasonable chance of being elected on the list – […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:00:06 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Not, Octopus</media:keywords>
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<title>The quality of mercy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-quality-of-mercy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-quality-of-mercy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s just deal with this quickly. Because the truth is that we should all be quietly sending BBC Scotland bouquets in appreciation for doing the independence movement a favour for once. Belief in an independent Scotland IS as strong as ever, which is to say it’s pretty much where it’s been since 2014 – two […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:57 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, quality, mercy</media:keywords>
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<title>Clocks And Calendars</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/clocks-and-calendars</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/clocks-and-calendars</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We think The Scotsman might have gotten a bit confused and/or carried away when it came to putting the clocks forward at the weekend. At 6am on Sunday morning they tweeted this: But the link was a 404. We checked the print edition of Scotland On Sunday but there was nothing there. Finally, though, the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Clocks, And, Calendars</media:keywords>
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<title>Sicknote Slippers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sicknote-slippers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sicknote-slippers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The turnout at the “independence march and rally” yesterday was so abysmally poor that it seems almost unfair to pick on any of the scores of SNP elected representatives who didn’t bother to show up. But dear old Cosy Feet Pete Wishart had the most chef’s-kiss excuse of all. The reason he didn’t fancy getting […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Sicknote, Slippers</media:keywords>
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<title>Protest But Don’t Survive</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/protest-but-dont-survive</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/protest-but-dont-survive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Protest, But, Don’t, Survive</media:keywords>
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<title>Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-call-the-whole-thing-off</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-call-the-whole-thing-off</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The last faint hope of any remotely positive or at least interesting outcome of May’s election just left the building. It wasn’t MUCH of a hope, and it’s absolutely no surprise in the wake of the comically shambolic, belief-defyingly inept farce that has been the birth of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s fringe-of-the fringe Your […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Let’s, Call, The, Whole, Thing, Off</media:keywords>
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<title>Irony you can’t buy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/irony-you-cant-buy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/irony-you-cant-buy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Posted without comment. Except this: good riddance to the worst traitor in Scotland’s history. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Irony, you, can’t, buy</media:keywords>
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<title>Looking up at the stars</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/looking-up-at-the-stars</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/looking-up-at-the-stars</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A fascinating line from the BBC this evening: The number of parties who got MSPs elected at the last election is… five. (Though in fairness there are now six, Reform having a single MSP after Graham Simpson defected from the Tories. The Lib Dems are even outnumbered by independents, of whom there are seven.) Also […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Looking, the, stars</media:keywords>
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<title>Scotland’s Most Frightened</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-most-frightened</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-most-frightened</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This was just two months ago. (Longer version here.) ? And we’ll bet you anything you like he’s already wishing he hadn’t said it. Because a recent study suggested that Swinney might just achieve the impossible task he set for himself, and if he does then he’s REALLY screwed. Now, we don’t actually think that’ll […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland’s, Most, Frightened</media:keywords>
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<title>Two Men Unalike</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-men-unalike</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-men-unalike</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News got herself a scoop last night. And to be honest, readers, we were a bit confused. “Gender critical views” are not only lawful things to hold and express, they’re one of a small subset of opinions that are explicitly protected as such in law. And why would a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Two, Men, Unalike</media:keywords>
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<title>The Tactics Of Suicide</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-tactics-of-suicide</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-tactics-of-suicide</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Sorry, readers, we’ve been too busy boiling with rage at cretinous Americans for the last few days to trust ourselves with writing a full-length article, but we’ve just about calmed down enough in time for this month’s polling analysis. Which is handy, because today is the day of the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Tactics, Suicide</media:keywords>
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<title>When the law breaks the law</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-the-law-breaks-the-law</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-the-law-breaks-the-law</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a not particularly funny joke that is sometimes told in legal circles about why a law student failed to finish his coursework – because he had no conviction. With rare exceptions lawyers aren’t renowned for their sense of humour but I can’t help thinking someone, at the highest levels of our justice system, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>When, the, law, breaks, the, law</media:keywords>
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<title>The Future Is Yesterday</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-future-is-yesterday</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-future-is-yesterday</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So on the one hand there’s obviously very little point paying attention to the SNP’s regional list candidates for May’s Holyrood election, because as this website has comprehensively demonstrated over recent months, the chances of the SNP having any list MSPs elected are remote. However, nothing is impossible, so let’s take a look at the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Future, Yesterday</media:keywords>
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<title>Scotland In Numbers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-in-numbers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-in-numbers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Cost of keeping vital rape crisis services in Glasgow operating: £500,000. Amount of money wasted by the Scottish Government fighting and losing court cases to try to remove women’s rights: £1.14 million. Angry yet? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland, Numbers</media:keywords>
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<title>The Longest Road</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-longest-road</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-longest-road</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Longest, Road</media:keywords>
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<title>The Modern Politician</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-modern-politician</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-modern-politician</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A play in three acts: And you thought ours were spineless. Poor old Anas, though. If 24 hours is a long time in politics these days, a week is forever. And a month hardly even bears thinking about. As for a year and a half, well, the less said the better. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Modern, Politician</media:keywords>
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<title>A Dumber Nation</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-dumber-nation</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-dumber-nation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In politics, readers, evil and stupidity aren’t the same thing. But nor are they exclusive. Before we ask you to consider which of the terms applies to the Scottish Government led by John Swinney, we’d like you to read this letter sent to Wings by the auntie of two women imprisoned in Scottish jails. “I […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dumber, Nation</media:keywords>
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<title>Echoes of history</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/echoes-of-history</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/echoes-of-history</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most. We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow. Because, y’know, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Echoes, history</media:keywords>
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<title>A Stitch In Timing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-stitch-in-timing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-stitch-in-timing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Readers will probably be aware that literally as you read this, the Scottish Government is in court trying to defend its policy of letting male murderers be housed in women’s prisons by arguing that the Equality Act 2010 (as ruled on by the Supreme Court in the For Women Scotland case) is incompatible with the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Stitch, Timing</media:keywords>
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<title>The Marshalling Plan</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-marshalling-plan</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-marshalling-plan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Another month has passed, so we suppose it must be time for the third of our poll-analysis pieces for the Scottish Parliament election in May. (Last time round we assessed the grotesque rank idiocy of voting SNP on the list if you want a pro-indy majority, and the time before that we considered the possible […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Marshalling, Plan</media:keywords>
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<title>Shield Of The Phantom</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/shield-of-the-phantom</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/shield-of-the-phantom</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, we gave it a go. It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Shield, The, Phantom</media:keywords>
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<title>Yelling at the tide</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yelling-at-the-tide</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yelling-at-the-tide</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We figured someone had to at least try. So in the light of this, we’ve sent a letter. ———————————————————————- TO: Judge Susan Walker, President, Employment Tribunal (Scotland) Dear Madam President, I read with considerable dismay and alarm your response to a recent complaint from a Mr Ewan Kennedy regarding the conduct of Employment Judge Alexander […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Yelling, the, tide</media:keywords>
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<title>The Secondhand Amendment</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-secondhand-amendment</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-secondhand-amendment</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 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 […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Secondhand, Amendment</media:keywords>
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<title>Learning Insanity</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/learning-insanity</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/learning-insanity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week. ? It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Learning, Insanity</media:keywords>
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<title>Governing For Beginners</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/governing-for-beginners</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/governing-for-beginners</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator. Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it. (Its legacy very much […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Governing, For, Beginners</media:keywords>
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<title>Grandpa John’s Nightmare</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grandpa-johns-nightmare</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grandpa-johns-nightmare</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this: ? Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote. (There would, obviously, be nothing remotely […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Grandpa, John’s, Nightmare</media:keywords>
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<title>Failure To Learn</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/failure-to-learn</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/failure-to-learn</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scotland take on Haiti on Sunday 14 June (in the wee small hours of the morning), so this is nice, isn’t it? At least, it would be if incompetent idiots weren’t in charge. Firstly because the SNP – a party with a long and dismaying record of promising things it then doesn’t deliver – has […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Failure, Learn</media:keywords>
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<title>And every day was exactly the same</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-every-day-was-exactly-the-same</link>
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<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>And, every, day, was, exactly, the, same</media:keywords>
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<title>List Voting For Cretins</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/list-voting-for-cretins</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/list-voting-for-cretins</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This week The National published a poll it commissioned from Find Out Now for this May’s Scottish Parliament election, alongside a seat projection from Sir John Curtice. Here are the list-vote figures from the poll. The seat projection calculated that the election would result in 59 SNP MSPs (six short of the number John Swinney […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>List, Voting, For, Cretins</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gulf War</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gulf-war</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gulf-war</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday we noted in passing that independence support now outstrips that of the SNP by more than 20 points, making the party a huge liability as the vehicle for enabling Scots to leave the UK. Put simply, even when voters want independence, they’re not willing to vote SNP to get it. (Not, of course, that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Gulf, War</media:keywords>
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<title>The Fear Of The Briar</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-fear-of-the-briar</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-fear-of-the-briar</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ With Reform now pretty consistently miles in front in polling for the next UK election, logically this is brilliant news for the Scottish independence movement, isn’t it? So can anyone explain why the SNP is so desperate to stop them? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. As we’ve repeatedly explored on Wings over the last […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Fear, The, Briar</media:keywords>
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<title>The Curious Fringes</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-curious-fringes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-curious-fringes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s a post on the superwoke poll-analysis account Ballot Box Scotland today bemoaning the lack of interest in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election from polling companies, and presenting it as some sort of anti-Scottish conspiracy. The real reason nobody’s very interested, of course, is that as things stand the election is an obvious foregone conclusion […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Curious, Fringes</media:keywords>
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<title>A matter of class</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-matter-of-class</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-matter-of-class</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Something very odd happened when the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal delivered its judgment – and it wasn’t just the made-up quotes and mangled law. Call it institutional bias, ideological capture, or just the law doing its job, but what Employment Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered was the most one-sided outcome since Butch and Sundance decided […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>matter, class</media:keywords>
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<title>Contempt Of Government</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/contempt-of-government</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/contempt-of-government</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is actually pretty serious. Because, y’know, you can call us old-fashioned purists or sticklers or whatever if you like, but government ministers probably shouldn’t openly lie in prepared statements to the High Court in order to pervert the course of justice. And this is as clear a knowing, deliberate lie as you could hope […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Contempt, Government</media:keywords>
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<title>The Idiot Rodeo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-idiot-rodeo</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-idiot-rodeo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As recently as this weekend, the Scottish Government claimed that it has “made clear it accepts the Supreme Court ruling [in For Women Scotland] and is taking forward the detailed work necessary”. But as with so much the Scottish Government says, it’s a barefaced lie. And we know that not just from its total inaction, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Idiot, Rodeo</media:keywords>
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<title>How Far To Go, How Far</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-far-to-go-how-far</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-far-to-go-how-far</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We thought we should keep track of all the issues with the Peggie tribunal judgment, now that Sandie Peggie has officially announced her intention to appeal it. Because this story has some distance left to run. PROBLEM 1 – THE FAKE FORSTATER QUOTE Severity: HIGH Status: PARTIALLY RESOLVED The judgment cited a quote from Forstater […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Far, Go, How, Far</media:keywords>
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<title>Strike One</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/strike-one</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/strike-one</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is absolutely extraordinary. In the light of revelations exposed and detailed by Wings that the original contained several misleadingly-edited or completely made-up citations from previous cases, the Employment Tribunal today issued a corrected version of its judgment in the Sandie Peggie case. And much like NHS Fife’s repeatedly-edited previous statement on the tribunal, we […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Strike, One</media:keywords>
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<title>The ginger stepchild</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-ginger-stepchild</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-ginger-stepchild</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ According to a new poll, fewer than a third of SNP voters even think independence is in the top three priorities facing Scotland. It’s only five points ahead of immigration in fourth place, and seven ahead of housing. So it’s hardly surprising that the SNP aren’t bothering themselves about it. Their own support, like the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, ginger, stepchild</media:keywords>
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<title>The Valley Of The Dolls</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-valley-of-the-dolls</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-valley-of-the-dolls</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely and heinously harassed by her employer through no fault of her own, and she’ll be entitled to substantial compensation as a result. It also […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Valley, The, Dolls</media:keywords>
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<title>The Long Walk To Freedom</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-long-walk-to-freedom</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-long-walk-to-freedom</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On 5 April 2021, I sent a short and simple Freedom Of Information (FOI) request to the Scottish Government asking for: “All written evidence to James Hamilton’s QC investigation into the FM under the ministerial code. This includes evidence from the FM, her chief of staff Liz Lloyd and any other individuals within the Scottish […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Long, Walk, Freedom</media:keywords>
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<title>The cost of failure</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cost-of-failure</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cost-of-failure</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For several years now, this site has recorded how the SNP’s continued existence is now entirely dependent on UK state funding. The party would simply go bust without Westminster money. And how precarious a position that puts it in is sharply illustrated by the latest release of donations income from the Electoral Commission. In a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, cost, failure</media:keywords>
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<title>Ain’t Got Time To Bleed</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/aint-got-time-to-bleed</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/aint-got-time-to-bleed</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is our solemn duty to inform you we’ve received another legal threat, readers. Should we cease and desist? Let’s see. The article in question is this one, and this is everything it said about Mr McNeil: Only one “statement” is attributed to him – the words “The authorities will be there so we need […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ain’t, Got, Time, Bleed</media:keywords>
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<title>Ginger beer and fruit and nuts</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ginger-beer-and-fruit-and-nuts</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ginger-beer-and-fruit-and-nuts</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We miss the days when this was parody, not “progressive” ideology. ? But we are where we are. And hey, it’s great news that their adult roles are still open to all. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ginger, beer, and, fruit, and, nuts</media:keywords>
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<title>Wishing for swans</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/wishing-for-swans</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/wishing-for-swans</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For lack of anything more interesting to write about, we thought we might do a monthly rundown of polling in the runup to next year’s Holyrood election, with seat projections from a neutral source, in the shape of the newish Devolved Elections website. And very quickly, things got a bit weird. Our original thought was […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Wishing, for, swans</media:keywords>
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<title>The Groomers’ Friends</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-groomers-friends</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-groomers-friends</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re just putting this here for the record, really. It’s a “debate” from the Scottish Parliament last night, on a motion from Patrick Harvie complaining that vulnerable children aren’t being pushed into a programme of lifelong medicalisation, sterilisation and mutilation quickly enough. The motion completely ignored both the findings of the Cass Review and the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Groomers’, Friends</media:keywords>
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<title>Searching And Looking</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/searching-and-looking</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/searching-and-looking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Disgraced ex-policeman and notorious vexatious serial complainant Lynsay Watson is having quite the meltdown on the groomer-and-paedophile haven Bluesky tonight. Let’s listen in. The trigger is that Watson has been asked to attend a voluntary police interview in connection with allegations of harassment against him – something that’s happened before, and which he’s managed to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Searching, And, Looking</media:keywords>
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<title>Reach For The Stars (And Stripes)</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/reach-for-the-stars-and-stripes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/reach-for-the-stars-and-stripes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ To be honest, we’re mainly putting these here so you don’t have to keep looking at that picture of Alan Cumming. But they also show what you can achieve, whether in football or politics, if you actually attack rather than being content to endlessly shuttle it sideways and backwards until you get beaten without even […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Reach, For, The, Stars, And, Stripes</media:keywords>
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<title>Over The Hill And Down The Slope</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/over-the-hill-and-down-the-slope</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/over-the-hill-and-down-the-slope</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve just been leaked the SNP’s first poster roughs for Holyrood 2026. One more push, everyone! ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Over, The, Hill, And, Down, The, Slope</media:keywords>
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<title>Grift Away</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grift-away</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grift-away</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Oh good, another plan. Just three and a half years to wait. Should we, what’s the phrase, “Save The Date”? Rhetorical question, obviously. If you’re in a hurry, folks, just scroll down to the video and start there, because Believe In Scotland’s latest wheeze to get hold of your folding money and stash it in […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Grift, Away</media:keywords>
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<title>Rise Of The Machine</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rise-of-the-machine</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rise-of-the-machine</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s Wings’ 14th birthday today, and to be entirely honest with you, readers, like a lot of teenagers we’re having a bit of an existential crisis. It’s quite difficult to see any point in being a Scottish political journalist for the next five years, because it’s just going to be one depressing Groundhog Day after […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rise, The, Machine</media:keywords>
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<title>How To Create Racists</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-to-create-racists</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-to-create-racists</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This really is an extraordinary headline, for multiple reasons. Because what actually IS “the rise of Reform”? ? The only thing “the rise of Reform” can possibly mean here is “more and more people choosing to vote for, or express their support for, a particular lawful political party in a democracy”. Why are we supposed […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Create, Racists</media:keywords>
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<title>Great news, everyone!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/great-news-everyone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/great-news-everyone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re important! Something to look forward to there, then. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Great, news, everyone</media:keywords>
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<title>The Music That Nobody Likes</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-music-that-nobody-likes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-music-that-nobody-likes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps the key graphic from last night’s by-election in Caerphilly is this one (green means Plaid Cymru in the context of Wales): In the end, Plaid won pretty comfortably in what had been predicted to be a very tight contest between them and Reform, with a majority of almost 4,000. But Plaid aren’t going to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Music, That, Nobody, Likes</media:keywords>
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<title>Courage Calls To None</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/courage-calls-to-none</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/courage-calls-to-none</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We should point out right at the start that a reader donated £12 back in the summer specifically to send us to Nicola Sturgeon’s book event in Bath last night. We assume it was someone we’d upset in some way. We arrived bang on 6.30, expecting to be among the first on the scene, but […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Courage, Calls, None</media:keywords>
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<title>The Icarus Folly</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-icarus-folly</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-icarus-folly</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last month, when half a football team of armed police arrested Graham Linehan at Heathrow Airport for a couple of tweets, we said this: Today, this happened: Rarely can a hand have been overplayed so badly. Fans of free speech owe a huge vote of thanks to disgraced, deranged ex-policeman Lynsay Watson for this development. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Icarus, Folly</media:keywords>
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<title>Your enemy’s mistakes</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-enemys-mistakes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-enemys-mistakes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So on the surface level this is just flat-out hilarious. Firstly because, as we showed you yesterday, the “significant proportion of Scotland’s population” which appears to have been won back to the SNP since John Swinney became its leader is… 1%. Because that’s all their vote has increased by as Scottish Labour have haemorrhaged support […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Your, enemy’s, mistakes</media:keywords>
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<title>Come On Baby, Let’s Do The Twist</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/come-on-baby-lets-do-the-twist</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/come-on-baby-lets-do-the-twist</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ All of the words you’re about to read below were written by the same person in the last few days. It’s completely verbatim and none of it is taken in any way out of context. It means what it sounds like it means. But even if you’ve got a forehead the size of the “eggheads” […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Come, Baby, Let’s, The, Twist</media:keywords>
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<title>A Case Study In Delusion</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-case-study-in-delusion</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-case-study-in-delusion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Kevin McKenna has a piece in today’s Herald asking the question that is now the core issue for the Scottish independence movement. The short version of the answer is usually attributed to Mark Twain: “It is far easier to fool someone than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”. But that does nothing to explain […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:28 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Case, Study, Delusion</media:keywords>
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<title>The Cowards’ Den</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cowards-den</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cowards-den</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We were going to write something today for the anniversary of Alex Salmond’s tragic death, but then we read Kevin McKenna’s piece in today’s Herald On Sunday and we can’t improve on it, so go and have a read of that before you do anything else. Alex always believed in looking forward, not back, so […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Cowards’, Den</media:keywords>
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<title>No cry of “Pish!” rang out</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/no-cry-of-pish-rang-out</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/no-cry-of-pish-rang-out</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s really very hard to overstate what mendacious, duplicitous shite this is. ? It did its job, though. As expected, the SNP conference comprehensively voted down the rebel amendments to Swinney’s motion on independence “strategy” and backed his grand plan of winning a majority, begging Keir Starmer for a second referendum – just like Nicola […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>cry, “Pish”, rang, out</media:keywords>
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<title>Send In The Clowns</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/send-in-the-clowns</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/send-in-the-clowns</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP conference opened today with Stephen Flynn (primary interest: the career of Stephen Flynn), Karen Adam (primary interest: any shiny or jangly object) and Susan Aitken (primary interest: MOAR PIES), which ought to be more than enough by itself to convincingly illustrate that these are not serious people. But if you somehow still weren’t […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:00:32 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Send, The, Clowns</media:keywords>
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<title>Simply Nothing To Be Done</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/simply-nothing-to-be-done</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/simply-nothing-to-be-done</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ll be honest, readers, we’ve spent most of the last five days sorting out our iPod music library. It’s a task that would make Hercules wince. 2,700 tracks infested with title case and all sorts of other grammatical catastrophes by crappy algorithms (there are songs on there categorised as being by variously “Adam And The […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Simply, Nothing, Done</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Walking Like A Zombie</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/walking-like-a-zombie</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/walking-like-a-zombie</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’d be quite hard to find an image that more completely summed up the wretched state of the SNP in 2025 than this one. Look at that tiny handful of miserable faces, sitting dejectedly around a near-empty function room. It’s so bleak Mike Leigh could make an entire movie out of it. And we know […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:00:19 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Walking, Like, Zombie</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Betrayers Of Women</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/betrayers-of-women</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/betrayers-of-women</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You know something’s shifty when a news account disables replies. So let’s just have a quick investigate. The letter itself is nonsensical guff. Whether the “far right” (current population: almost everyone) are bad and racist or not has absolutely no relationship to whether they’re standing up for women’s rights. The two things are unconnected. Every […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Betrayers, Women</media:keywords>
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<title>Let’s make this simple</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-make-this-simple</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-make-this-simple</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve written a number of extremely, painstakingly detailed articles in the last few months explaining why list votes for the SNP at next year’s election will be wasted, and will serve only to elect Unionist (and in particular Reform) MSPs. Unfortunately, some people still don’t get it. And that’s understandable, because super-detailed articles are long […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Let’s, make, this, simple</media:keywords>
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<title>The End Of The Affair</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-affair</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-affair</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s an interesting piece in the Sunday Times today. They’re not the only ones. It’s hard to disagree with the views expressed in the piece by former Tory MSP Adam Tomkins. The Holyrood talent pool is so wretched, and looks set to become so much worse next May, that the article is reduced to suggesting […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, End, The, Affair</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Calm down, lads</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/calm-down-lads</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/calm-down-lads</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Don’t you know there’s no oil left there anyway? (Apologies for our impromptu week off, we’ve been very busy with other stuff and there was nothing happening in Scottish politics anyway. See you on Monday.) ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Calm, down, lads</media:keywords>
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<title>Monster Zero</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/monster-zero</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/monster-zero</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I spent yesterday trying to work out exactly why I was so depressed about the fatal shooting of conservative American activist Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t because I shared many of his opinions – other than opposition to gender ideology and DEI, and (surprisingly) support for Scottish independence, we had little in common. And it wasn’t […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Monster, Zero</media:keywords>
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<title>The Incredible Sulk</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-incredible-sulk</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-incredible-sulk</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last week we introduced readers to Sophia “Tarquin” Brooks, the 18-year-old boy who Graham Linehan is currently on trial for supposedly “assaulting”, and in particular his connection to disgraced former policeman and serial harasser Lynsay Watson. (From reporting of the proceedings at Westminster Magistrates Court, it sounds very much like Watson has been directing and influencing […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Incredible, Sulk</media:keywords>
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<title>Down On The Beaches</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/down-on-the-beaches</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/down-on-the-beaches</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve written already about the magnitude of the error transactivists have made in bringing about the arrest of Graham Linehan on trumped-up assault charges. But thanks to the excellent work of court reporter Nick Wallis this week, the sheer scale of it is still only beginning to unfold. At its heart is a scarcely-believable tale […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Down, The, Beaches</media:keywords>
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<title>The Biggest Blunder</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-biggest-blunder</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-biggest-blunder</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We think transactivists are going to come to see yesterday as an epic mistake. Because it looks as though it might just have been the final straw. The public reaction against Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow Airport by five armed officers over a handful of innocuous tweets, which also saw the writer hospitalised, was so […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Biggest, Blunder</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Nobody’s Party</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nobodys-party</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nobodys-party</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is a remarkable thing. ? The Scottish Greens, who until last year were a party of government, claim to have 7,600 members. This month they conducted an election to choose two people as their “co-conveners”, from a list of four candidates, and almost 90% of the party’s members decided that they didn’t want any […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Nobody’s, Party</media:keywords>
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<title>The Wheels Of Reality</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wheels-of-reality</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wheels-of-reality</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ …grind exceedingly slowly, but grind they do. May 2021: And now today, just four years and three months later: As far as we’re aware, today marks the first time the Scottish Government has formally acknowledged that transwomen are men. For our next trick, we’re going to send in an FOI asking if they know what […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Wheels, Reality</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>Frankly, Mr Shankly</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/frankly-mr-shankly</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/frankly-mr-shankly</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Over the last week or so we’ve gone into several sections of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir “Frankly” in some detail: what gender she really thinks Adam “Isla Bryson” Graham is, blaming JK Rowling for the toxic tone of the self-ID debate and explaining how she thinks the law should be changed to let transwomen into women’s […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Frankly, Shankly</media:keywords>
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<title>Limping to the line</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/limping-to-the-line</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/limping-to-the-line</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scotland’s two main political parties have published their 2024 accounts. The SNP’s can be found here, and Scottish Labour’s here. Neither tells a massively inspiring tale. (Click pics to enlarge.) The SNP lost £445,000 despite being boosted by donations totalling almost £940,000 from just FOUR individuals. Scottish Labour made a profit of £350,000 but only […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Limping, the, line</media:keywords>
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<title>Conspiracies For Dummies</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/conspiracies-for-dummies</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/conspiracies-for-dummies</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve been here before. But let’s try to really dumb it down for the extra-stupid. Because it isn’t actually very hard at all, and there’s no IQ test. Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir is very huffy about the whole idea. It sets the scene for her to rubbish it with some cheap smears Sturgeon knows are baseless. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:00:19 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Conspiracies, For, Dummies</media:keywords>
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<title>The illiterate solicitor</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-illiterate-solicitor</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-illiterate-solicitor</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Before becoming a politician Nicola Sturgeon had a brief and rather unsuccessful career in the world of law. Which means she has no excuse whatsoever for this: Because in law, yes it does. That’s EXACTLY what it means. People are not put on trial in the High Court of Scotland for putting pineapple on their […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, illiterate, solicitor</media:keywords>
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<title>The Sweet Smell Of Unsuccess</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-sweet-smell-of-unsuccess</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-sweet-smell-of-unsuccess</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Sweet, Smell, Unsuccess</media:keywords>
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<title>The World Inside Her Head</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-world-inside-her-head</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-world-inside-her-head</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The media coverage of the gender-ideology stuff in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir has been based on a couple of short sentences from it, but the main section of the book devotes 14 pages to the subject and it’s worth checking out in depth, at least until something more interesting happens. Highly intelligent people only, obviously. We’ll […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, World, Inside, Her, Head</media:keywords>
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<title>The Envious Heart</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-envious-heart</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-envious-heart</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There was a revealing moment in what was an otherwise nauseatingly sycophantic interview with Nicola Sturgeon by Adam Fleming on BBC2 last night. ? And the thing it revealed is what Sturgeon’s book is really about. Because as more and more extracts have found their way into the public domain this week, the overarching theme […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:00:19 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Envious, Heart</media:keywords>
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<title>The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-endless-evil-of-everyone-else</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-endless-evil-of-everyone-else</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As more and more of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs ooze out into the public sphere like pus leaking from a burns-victim’s blisters, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of untruth spreading out in all directions. First she audaciously attempted to blame Alex Salmond for supposedly leaking the news of his own arrest on […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Endless, Evil, Everyone, Else</media:keywords>
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<title>Rapist’s Rights</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rapists-rights</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rapists-rights</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Say what you like about Nicola Sturgeon, but she’s not stupid. Releasing her memoirs when the Scottish Parliament is in recess has ensured acres of media coverage for what so far have been extremely anodyne “revelations” bundled up with barefaced and obvious lies of such startling audacity that it’s almost impossible to discuss them rationally. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rapist’s, Rights</media:keywords>
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<title>The Last Marble</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-marble</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-marble</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Last, Marble</media:keywords>
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<title>Snowflake Patrol</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/snowflake-patrol</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/snowflake-patrol</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve written a couple of articles about the media coverage of this already, but as the slow summer season continues it’s worth taking a little time to have a proper look at the source material, because it’s your cash that’s being spent on it, and used to shape public policy in Scotland. And it’s very […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Snowflake, Patrol</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>The Churn</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-churn</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-churn</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A little over two years ago, three SNP MSPs contested the leadership of the party in the wake of the sudden resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. All were full of grand plans and dreams for the future of the party, the nation and the independence movement. None of the three is leader now, and in nine […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Churn</media:keywords>
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<title>Trying To Understand</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trying-to-understand</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trying-to-understand</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It can be very hard to follow the arguments of people trying to convince you to vote for the SNP on the regional list at next year’s election. Here’s one just a month ago: So that’s clear – indy supporters MUST IGNORE the “siren voices” telling them to vote for smaller indy parties, because they […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:00:19 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trying, Understand</media:keywords>
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<title>The Deafening Echo Of Nothing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-deafening-echo-of-nothing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-deafening-echo-of-nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ These two Sunday front pages three weeks apart sounded awfully similar. But it turned out to be a lot worse than we thought. Not just because the Sunday Post ran basically the exact same story seven years ago: But because the Post’s piece is based on the exact same piece of garbage non-news that the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Deafening, Echo, Nothing</media:keywords>
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<title>The Changemakers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-changemakers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-changemakers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When we get bored in the summer silly season, we often start poking around in stats. This week we’d been idly pondering the complete waste of time Anas Sarwar’s four and a half years in charge of Scottish Labour have been, and the open goal he’s missed in failing to capitalise on a period of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:00:25 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Changemakers</media:keywords>
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<title>The Empty Hearse</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-empty-hearse</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-empty-hearse</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s been a very unfortunate typo here. “Scotland’s independence” should read “SNP’s gravy bus”. Because it couldn’t be any clearer what Robertson means. The first sentence, it should be noted, is a lie. The basis for the 2014 referendum was Alex Salmond persuading David Cameron to grant it in the belief that it would result […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Empty, Hearse</media:keywords>
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<title>From May To July</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-may-to-july</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-may-to-july</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Oh, it’s a long, long while. They have little to offer, but the songs they sing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>From, May, July</media:keywords>
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<title>Scotland’s Saviour</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-saviour</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-saviour</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ No, wait, hear us out. It’s not what you think. John Swinney’s been insulting everyone’s intelligence again today. If you’re an indy supporter and you’re not offended at being asked to swallow that idiot drivel again, then we’re sorry, but you’ve got stale custard and gravel for brains and shouldn’t be allowed to go to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland’s, Saviour</media:keywords>
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<title>Safety First</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safety-first</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safety-first</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Safety, First</media:keywords>
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<title>Everybody’s Normal Nowadays</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/everybodys-normal-nowadays</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/everybodys-normal-nowadays</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At some point, we’re all going to have to have a discussion about the word “normal”. Because suffering from a debilitating mental illness that supposedly causes you to commit suicide if medical professionals don’t pump you full of wrong-sex hormones and/or mutilate or remove healthy and functioning parts of your body, and which affects no […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Everybody’s, Normal, Nowadays</media:keywords>
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<title>The Pillars Of Sanity</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-pillars-of-sanity</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-pillars-of-sanity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 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 […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Pillars, Sanity</media:keywords>
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<title>Points Into Prongs</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/points-into-prongs</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/points-into-prongs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You might think you’ve heard this tired old song before. But wait! This one’s streamlined! Come back! Where there were once 11 points, now there are three prongs. Here they are. Need it even shorter? (1) “Build support for independence!” Because you’re so good at that. (2) Whine that it’s all so unfair. Another proven-success […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Points, Into, Prongs</media:keywords>
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<title>According As We Need Them</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/according-as-we-need-them</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/according-as-we-need-them</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve said it for a lot of years, but “1984” really does contain a complete explanation of every aspect of modern life, and especially politics. So let’s look at today’s Herald On Sunday, and in particular its “special report”. The report in question wasn’t produced by the Herald itself, but by Engender, a charity almost […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>According, Need, Them</media:keywords>
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<title>Just Good Friends</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/just-good-friends</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/just-good-friends</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It seems like almost every time somebody gets accused of rape, sexual harassment or any kind of horrible creepy sex-based sleaze in Scotland these days, the same face is always lurking around grinning in the background somewhere. Can you guess who it is yet? How many’s a trend again? Of course, First Ministers and the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Just, Good, Friends</media:keywords>
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<title>Too Tight To Mention</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/too-tight-to-mention</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/too-tight-to-mention</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So this snuck out quietly at the bottom of page 2 of today’s Daily Record. And like, we suspect, most of Scotland, our response was “WHAT?” Peter Murrell has been very well paid for most of the last 20 years – somewhere in the ballpark of £100,000 a year – and there’s very little evidence […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Too, Tight, Mention</media:keywords>
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<title>The Con Merchant</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-con-merchant</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-con-merchant</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before the internet, scammers used to have to work a bit harder to cheat people than they do now. A popular method was to advertise a “clearance sale” in the press. You’d see an ad in the Daily Record or a local paper for an event in a High […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Con, Merchant</media:keywords>
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<title>The Art Of Noise</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-art-of-noise</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-art-of-noise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Genuinely, can anyone tell us what the heck this actually means? ? Because to us, it’s just meaningless quacking to fill a void. It’s very short, so let’s transcribe the whole thing. “I want to do spectacularly well in the 2026 election, that’s what my sights are on.” Well, duh. And there was us thinking […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Art, Noise</media:keywords>
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<title>And it’s goodnight from he/him</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-its-goodnight-from-hehim</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-its-goodnight-from-hehim</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ And now for tonight’s headlines. Police Scotland have nevertheless denied that prisoners in their custody are being excessively pampered, following reports that a man was hustled out of St Leonard’s station in Edinburgh with an electric blanket over his head. Meanwhile, following the Supreme Court ruling in the For Women Scotland case, the force’s HQ […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>And, it’s, goodnight, from, hehim</media:keywords>
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<title>But Don’t Give Yourself Away</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-dont-give-yourself-away</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-dont-give-yourself-away</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Seamus Logan, an SNP MP of whom it has often been said “Seamus who?”, has an article in The National today categorically ruling out Scotland achieving independence via a democratic vote in an event fully recognised by the UK government. That in itself shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to Wings readers, as this […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>But, Don’t, Give, Yourself, Away</media:keywords>
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<title>Anatomy Of A Lunatic</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/anatomy-of-a-lunatic</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/anatomy-of-a-lunatic</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Honestly, folks, I don’t even want to do this because almost nothing is more tedious for anyone else to read than two people having an internet beef – a lesson that I learned, ironically, from reading the site this post concerns, which does little else – but as well as reacting on a basic human […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Anatomy, Lunatic</media:keywords>
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<title>A different school</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-different-school</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-different-school</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Tommy Sheppard knows a John Swinney you don’t know. And who, conveniently, you’re not allowed to see. Traditionally, this is the opposite order to how things are done: Normally, you tell people what you’re asking them to vote for BEFORE they actually vote. You don’t explain your plans AFTER the election, especially when they already […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>different, school</media:keywords>
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<title>Holiday Relief</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/holiday-relief</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/holiday-relief</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re thinking of just handing over Wings to Grok for the summer so we can spend all our time feeding the swans, readers. Here’s what the Twitter artificial intelligence bot said when we asked it to assess today’s National front page. Sounds about right to us. We’re off for a walk. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Holiday, Relief</media:keywords>
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<title>Let’s Not Make Some Plans</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-not-make-some-plans</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-not-make-some-plans</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At first, this merely sounds like the worst day out ever. But for supporters of independence, in fact it’s even grimmer than that. Because if the above line-up of insomnia cures weren’t bad enough, wait until you hear what it is they’re going to be droning on to an audience of God-knows-who about. We know […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Let’s, Not, Make, Some, Plans</media:keywords>
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<title>The Grand Tour</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-grand-tour</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-grand-tour</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Lacking anything better to do on a grey and cloudy day in Bath, we thought it might be a lark to go through every Holyrood constituency in Scotland and contemplate where it might go in next year’s election, based on the current state of polling. And just to make things interesting, compared to our last […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Grand, Tour</media:keywords>
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<title>Two Of A Kind</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-of-a-kind</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-of-a-kind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Humza Yousaf, March 2024: Actual result: Labour 37, SNP 9, Lib Dems 6, Tories 5. The two horses in the two-horse race finished second and fourth, and won just 19% of seats between them. And here’s John Swinney a week and a half ago: The two horses finished second and third. The matter of whether […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Two, Kind</media:keywords>
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<title>What We Don’t Know Now</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-we-dont-know-now</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-we-dont-know-now</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the very few phrases universally recognised in Scotland but which will draw blank looks anywhere else in the UK is the dry, dark “Well, ye ken noo”. Until recently it had no equivalent that we can think of in the rest of the English-speaking world, although arguably that gap has now been at […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What, Don’t, Know, Now</media:keywords>
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<title>The Jokers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-jokers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-jokers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the end, the people of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse made fools of us all. Because nobody, but nobody, saw that result coming. The bookies didn’t see it coming – they’d shifted Labour out from favourites at the start of the campaign to astronomical 11/1 outsiders by the close of books. The New Statesman’s experts […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Jokers</media:keywords>
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<title>Ball Of Confusion</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ball-of-confusion</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ball-of-confusion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We must admit, we don’t quite get what the Daily Record is trying to achieve. Having already told its dwindling band of readers that voting for both the SNP and Labour is the only way to stop Reform in today’s Hamilton by-election, for the last two days it’s deployed some random loony in a hard […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ball, Confusion</media:keywords>
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<title>Why genocide is brilliant</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-genocide-is-brilliant</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-genocide-is-brilliant</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wait, not genocide. Biscuits. We’re thinking of biscuits. Sorry about that. As you were, everyone. Mmm, biscuits. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, genocide, brilliant</media:keywords>
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<title>And No Great Mischief Should They Fall</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-no-great-mischief-should-they-fall</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-no-great-mischief-should-they-fall</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago we had a thought. And it seemed quite an interesting thought, so we decided to commission a poll on it. 63-37? Well, there’s your clear and overwhelming support. There is not, in our lifetimes, going to be another independence referendum on the terms of the first one. The UK government has […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>And, Great, Mischief, Should, They, Fall</media:keywords>
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<title>Here And There</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/here-and-there</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/here-and-there</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is what Labour say in Scotland: And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking: One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet, and our life’s going to get a lot more difficult. Until that day, though, let’s just enjoy the laughs. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Here, And, There</media:keywords>
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<title>A Butterfly On Absinthe</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-butterfly-on-absinthe</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-butterfly-on-absinthe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If you’ve been reading Scottish social media or the Scottish press for the last year and a half or so, the following graph is going to come as a bit of a shock to you. But there it is all the same. Activists, who are tiny in number but loud of voice, habitually like to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Butterfly, Absinthe</media:keywords>
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<title>The Flip</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-flip</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-flip</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve just taken delivery of some REALLY interesting polling results, readers, but it’s going to take a while to fully analyse and write them up, so in the meantime let’s look at some slightly less interesting ones which came from the same poll – the Norstat one commissioned by the Sunday Times and published today, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Flip</media:keywords>
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<title>The Outsiders</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-outsiders</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-outsiders</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If you’re a fan of lazy, superficial political analysis from the mentally unwell, you might have read this week about John Swinney’s great strategic triumph of having “coaxed” an “endorsement” out of the Daily Record for Thursday’s by-election in Hamilton. And if so, you might be forgiven for thinking that that analysis looks pretty stupid […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 16:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Outsiders</media:keywords>
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<title>The Blackout</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-blackout</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-blackout</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers will be familiar with this site’s ongoing quest for an explanation as to why controversy-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland continues to operate in dozens of Scottish primary and even nursery schools, pushing gender ideology onto children as young as four despite only having a remit to support 13-25-year-olds. Last month we were, to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 17:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Blackout</media:keywords>
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<title>What Anas Actually Said</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-anas-actually-said</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-anas-actually-said</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad being run by Reform for the Hamilton by-election targeting Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. Obviously none of the acres of press coverage trusts voters to see the ad and decide for themselves, because that simply isn’t how journalism […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 15:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What, Anas, Actually, Said</media:keywords>
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<title>Tell Them You’re Frightened</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tell-them-youre-frightened</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tell-them-youre-frightened</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Whoever advised John Swinney to do this should be tarred, feathered and fired. Because incredibly, the sheer abject patheticness of it isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s wretched enough that the sole reason the First Minister can offer voters in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse to vote for his party is that he isn’t Nigel Farage. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 08:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tell, Them, You’re, Frightened</media:keywords>
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<title>What Are We, And Where Are We Going?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-are-we-and-where-are-we-going</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-are-we-and-where-are-we-going</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission.  Remember The Vow? Most of us have tried to forget it. This was Westminster’s Hail Mary as polling day approached in the 2014 referendum; […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 12:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What, Are, We, And, Where, Are, Going</media:keywords>
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<title>The shifting sands of memory</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-shifting-sands-of-memory</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-shifting-sands-of-memory</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We were a bit bemused by this yesterday. The Scottish Tory MSP reacted furiously to a story in The National which said Scotland had been absorbed into England by the 1707 Act Of Union, rather than becoming a “partner” in anything, and had ceased to exist as a state in international law. Which was a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 14:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, shifting, sands, memory</media:keywords>
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<title>Just a couple more shots</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/just-a-couple-more-shots</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/just-a-couple-more-shots</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re getting there, folks. Keep pushing. . FOOTNOTE: For readers less familiar with the Dodonpachi videogame series than this site is, the title of this post is semi-ironic. It’s going to take quite a bit of firepower yet to get this job done once and for all. But the dominoes are falling now. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 15:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Just, couple, more, shots</media:keywords>
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<title>The Ace Attorney</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-ace-attorney</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-ace-attorney</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Despite everything, we almost allowed ourselves just the very tiniest little micro-flicker of optimism when we read Tommy Sheppard’s latest in The National. Because that much is certainly true, and it’s uncommonly candid to have anyone in the SNP admit it. So what’s the answer? Oh. We’re going to do some more demanding. Great. Can’t […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Ace, Attorney</media:keywords>
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<title>Well, this is a little embarrassing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/well-this-is-a-little-embarrassing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/well-this-is-a-little-embarrassing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Not for us, though. (Kelly’s article is here. Link to Grok’s answer here. The ChatGPT analysis that triggered the article can be read in this tweet thread. A verifiable analysis by Grok of the debate, based on a neutral question, can be read here.) ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 11:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Well, this, little, embarrassing</media:keywords>
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<title>Barbie Stories</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/barbie-stories</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/barbie-stories</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So this is where the SNP are at now. The legal imprint at the bottom means that that’s official SNP election communication. One assumes it’s intended for leaflets to be put through actual voters’ letterboxes. We’re almost lost for words. The optional accessories are nice, though. And we suppose it’s an improvement on her younger […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 14:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Barbie, Stories</media:keywords>
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<title>Some Attention For James</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/some-attention-for-james</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/some-attention-for-james</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Hi! I noticed, with very considerable amusement, your complaint last night that I hadn’t made a “substantive reply” to the SEVEN posts (totalling close to 10,000 words) of semi-coherent ranting about me that you’ve made on your site in the last seven days. (I’ll be absolutely honest, I’ve only skimmed the last few.) We both […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 13:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Some, Attention, For, James</media:keywords>
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<title>The Undertaker</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-undertaker</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-undertaker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In so far as it’s worth talking about Scottish constitutional politics at all these days, it’s worth taking a moment to analyse the bloodless, anodyne nothingness spouted by the First Minister on The Sunday Show at the weekend. ? That clip is less than three minutes long, but it’s so soul-crushingly boring and full of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 13:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Undertaker</media:keywords>
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<title>The Blindness Of Hatred</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-blindness-of-hatred</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-blindness-of-hatred</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Warning: despite the quite zingy title this is actually going to be a very dry stats post, readers. It is, however, based on a man having something disturbingly close to a complete psychotic mental breakdown, so there’s always that for a bit of colour. Because the paragraph above, and in particular the highlighted part, is […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 15:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Blindness, Hatred</media:keywords>
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<title>A Poor Example</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-poor-example</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-poor-example</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Social media was having a good chuckle at this earlier today. ? But as it turns out, it’s a bit more than just an embarrassment. There’s no law against a former First Minister and current MSP shilling for his wife’s therapy business on the internet, even if some people might think there should be. But […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 16:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Poor, Example</media:keywords>
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<title>The Last Thing They’ll Expect</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-thing-theyll-expect</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-thing-theyll-expect</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The deranged stalker who’s now posted 72 blogposts totalling 62,500 words attacking Wings in the last few years had another go last night. And as a rule we don’t bother addressing them because they’re so demented you could spend 5,000 words pulling apart all the individual strands of lunacy, and lunatics thrive on attention, but […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 18:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Last, Thing, They’ll, Expect</media:keywords>
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<title>All Or Nothing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-or-nothing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-or-nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Even by the embarrassing standards of The National, the gulf between this morning’s blaring front-page splash and the weak, watery weasel words in the actual article is a chasm so wide and so yawning (in every sense of that word) that it would put the epic planetary scar of Mars’ Valles Marineris to shame. Coupled […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 15:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>All, Nothing</media:keywords>
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<title>Let’s Make Jen Safe Again</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-make-jen-safe-again</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-make-jen-safe-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On reflection, we feel we may have not taken this story seriously enough. After all, they don’t put just ANY old guff on the front page of the Sunday Mail. So we’ve decided to make amends. Please, readers, give generously – or as we perhaps ought to say, JENerously!!!!! – to make poor frightened Jen […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 14:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Let’s, Make, Jen, Safe, Again</media:keywords>
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<title>We’ll make this quick</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/well-make-this-quick</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/well-make-this-quick</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Because it’s Trannah Rodger so you probably already assumed it’s bollocks. SPOILER: you were right. Firstly, absolutely nobody’s “FLED” to anywhere. Jen Bell – who alert Wings readers may recall recently flouncing angrily out of the Scottish Greens after becoming the racist, homophobic, misogynist, rapist-supporting fringe party’s executive co-chair last year – is in fact […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 10:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>We’ll, make, this, quick</media:keywords>
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<title>For Children Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-children-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-children-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Something very significant (and welcome) happened in Scotland today that didn’t even make it into the headlines of the stories that reported it. In fact, it barely got a line. The decision removes, for the next couple of years at least, the grotesque threat to young gay people in Scotland of being essentially forcibly transitioned […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 14:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>For, Children, Scotland</media:keywords>
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<title>The Takeover</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-takeover</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-takeover</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There comes a point when even the most liberal and tolerant have to ask questions. ? The above clip comes from a 2022 fundraising dinner celebrating the 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence. But Anas Sarwar seems to want to take things a little bit further than that. It’s a long-observed irony that Sarwar is all […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Takeover</media:keywords>
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<title>But No Cigar</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-no-cigar</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-no-cigar</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The less said about the Scottish Government’s toe-curlingly embarrassing “summit” last week, the sooner we can all pretend it never happened. We’ve got little to add to the withering assessments of Robin McAlpine and Kevin McKenna and just about everyone else who’s bothered covering this pathetic waste of everyone involved’s time. (Not that the time […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>But, Cigar</media:keywords>
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<title>Unhinged Malady</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/unhinged-malady</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/unhinged-malady</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday the Scottish media gave Green MSP Maggie Chapman what she’s never willingly given anyone else – a platform on which to make her case. Most did a very poor job challenging her on her outrageous comments about the Supreme Court, with BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime show being an especially wretched example of allowing the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Unhinged, Malady</media:keywords>
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<title>The Disgrace Of Holyrood</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-disgrace-of-holyrood</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-disgrace-of-holyrood</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At the weekend, Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman was filmed applauding as a notoriously unhinged transactivist ranted through a megaphone to a small and almost exclusively male crowd of protestors about how he was going to openly break the law by continuing to use women’s public toilets, and addressing JK Rowling with the words “We […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Disgrace, Holyrood</media:keywords>
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<title>The Peacemaker</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-peacemaker</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-peacemaker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Regular readers of Wings won’t need any reminding that Dani Garavelli of the Herald is, among some very stiff competition, one of the most contemptible pieces of nightsoil currently operating in the Scottish media. But if you’re new here, we can give you a quick illustration. If the sneering piety of that opening paragraph made […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Peacemaker</media:keywords>
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<title>Some People Try To Fuck With You</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/some-people-try-to-fuck-with-you</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/some-people-try-to-fuck-with-you</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, it’s always nice to be a landmark for free speech. But let’s start at the beginning. This is Lynsay Watson, formerly known as Alex Horwood. He’s pretended to be a woman for more than half of his life. As you might expect, then, he’s a very unwell man. In 2023 he was sacked by […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Some, People, Try, Fuck, With, You</media:keywords>
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<title>Tough Calls</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tough-calls</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tough-calls</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tough, Calls</media:keywords>
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<title>The Moral Vacuum</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-moral-vacuum</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-moral-vacuum</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scottish Greens candidate and transactivist Matt “Ellie” Gomersall, with whom Wings readers will be familiar, appeared on the Jeremy Vine show today and blundered straight into an elephant trap a myopic mole could have seen coming on a foggy night. Having just embarked on a diatribe in which he dismissed as “ridiculous” the idea that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Moral, Vacuum</media:keywords>
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<title>March Of The Ferrets</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/march-of-the-ferrets</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/march-of-the-ferrets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Get ready for a lot of this in the coming days and weeks. Obviously, don’t believe any of it. Pretty soon now, nobody in a position of power will admit to ever having thought that transwomen were women. But don’t worry. We’ll remember. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>March, The, Ferrets</media:keywords>
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<title>The Day Everything Changed</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-day-everything-changed</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-day-everything-changed</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ll be honest, readers, we gasped out loud when we saw this. That such a basic, fundamental truth of human existence should ever be front page news with capacity to shock 100,000 years after we invented language is a sign of just how insane our world has become since 2015. But magnificent as it is, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Day, Everything, Changed</media:keywords>
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<title>Learning To Cope</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/learning-to-cope</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/learning-to-cope</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We wouldn’t be Wings if we didn’t round off this evening with a representative selection of some of the more measured and thoughtful responses from transactivists across the UK to today’s Supreme Court judgment. So fetch some sort of celebratory beverage, settle down in your comfiest armchair in front of the fire (‘cos it’s been […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Learning, Cope</media:keywords>
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<title>The highlights show</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-highlights-show</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-highlights-show</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For those of you who don’t have the time or patience to read through 88 pages of judicial lingo, we’ve distilled today’s Supreme Court judgment down to its key points. Much of it, of course, can be summarised as “the bleeding obvious”. Next comes, in the restrained vocabulary of Supreme Court judges, a pretty stinging […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, highlights, show</media:keywords>
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<title>The Crushing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-crushing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-crushing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve all got a lot of extremely heavy reading and pondering to do now. But the short version of the outcome of For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers is this: ? On the face of the judgment just handed down live in the courtroom, a more absolute, comprehensive and legally momentous defeat for the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Crushing</media:keywords>
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<title>Fantasy World Dizzy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fantasy-world-dizzy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fantasy-world-dizzy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Because you certainly are a bit light-headed if you’re buying this horse-plop. We don’t normally spend much time analysing opinion polls more than a year out from an election because it’s a complete chump’s game – too much can happen. But this one’s so absolutely batshit mad that we couldn’t resist a bit of a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Fantasy, World, Dizzy</media:keywords>
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<title>A kind of freedom</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-kind-of-freedom</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-kind-of-freedom</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers will have noticed our so-far-fruitless attempts to extract information from the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator regarding the disturbing activities of the controversy-plagued LGBT Youth Scotland. We are far from the only people raising concerns about the charity – we know of at least 17 separate formal complaints against LGBTYS in the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>kind, freedom</media:keywords>
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<title>Once more the pantomime</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/once-more-the-pantomime</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/once-more-the-pantomime</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In relation to yesterday’s article, we’ve now filed the following with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. I request a review of this decision. Firstly, I wish to note that since the response I received was a wholly generic one containing no reference or relevance to any of the specifics of my case, it […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Once, more, the, pantomime</media:keywords>
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<title>The Groomer’s Shield</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-groomers-shield</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-groomers-shield</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers will recall that Wings has for the past year been attempting to establish why controversial charity LGBT Youth Scotland is being allowed to operate in primary schools across Scotland, discussing sexual matters with children as young as four, despite only being supposed to deal with young people aged between 13 and 25. Having […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Groomer’s, Shield</media:keywords>
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<title>SNP 2025 Update</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/snp-2025-update</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/snp-2025-update</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So here’s where we’re at. Fat 20 grand pay rises for themselves, taking the salary of every minister and junior minister (which is almost half of SNP MSPs) over £100,000. Nice. But Nicola Sturgeon’s still skint, so it’s £160 a skull to have a wee canape or two with her before you watch her field […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>SNP, 2025, Update</media:keywords>
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<title>The more you change nothing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-more-you-change-nothing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-more-you-change-nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ …the more everything will stay the same. The cash-strapped SNP might have slimmed down its staff roster lately, but it’s the same toxic blend of intolerance and incompetence it’s been for the last decade. Ian McCann, of course, should need no introduction. Jim Henderson, remarkably, remains in charge of fundraising despite having overseen the campaigns […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, more, you, change, nothing</media:keywords>
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<title>Empty hands and empty heads</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/empty-hands-and-empty-heads</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/empty-hands-and-empty-heads</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Now, readers, we won’t pretend to you that our expectations were high. But you may nevertheless wish to steel yourselves before you hear the “offer”. You have to wait a while for it if you read the article. The first 800 words are padding and waffle: Westminster is bad, Nigel Farage is bad, Labour are […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Empty, hands, and, empty, heads</media:keywords>
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<title>Mad caps</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mad-caps</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mad-caps</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mad, caps</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gender Of Mountains</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gender-of-mountains</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gender-of-mountains</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s increasingly common now for the Scottish news to feature another prison scandal or employment-tribunal judgment highlighting the extent of gender-ideology capture in the country’s public authorities. But it’s normally quite hard to get an overall picture of just how captured any particular public body really is, so we should offer some thanks to the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Gender, Mountains</media:keywords>
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<title>The Long Future</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-long-future</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-long-future</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As he often does, Robin McAlpine has an interesting blog post up. Now, as alert readers will know, we’ve been calling for that on Wings for at least the last couple of years. For sane people any credible hope of reforming the SNP is long gone, by the deliberate design of its leadership, and so […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Long, Future</media:keywords>
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<title>The Sacrifice</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-sacrifice</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-sacrifice</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Sacrifice</media:keywords>
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<title>The Deep&#45;Fried Banana Republic</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-deep-fried-banana-republic</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-deep-fried-banana-republic</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s 18C today in Bath, readers, so after the dentist we went out to enjoy the sunshine for the afternoon. And you know what happens when we go out. But really, what even is there to say? Two years after she was arrested and taken to a police station for questioning, where we’re reliably informed […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Deep-Fried, Banana, Republic</media:keywords>
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<title>Live chat update</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/live-chat-update</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/live-chat-update</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So as promised, and having now spent 11 months trying to get answers any other way, this afternoon we had a live chat with controversial charity LGBT Youth Scotland. Below is how it went. When you log in, there’s an optional dropdown box where you can enter your age. The only options it allows are […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Live, chat, update</media:keywords>
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<title>The Unquestionables</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-unquestionables</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-unquestionables</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In April last year we wrote to LGBT Youth Scotland asking them to explain why they were conducting activities in primary schools (and even with pre-school children) about sexual matters despite only having a remit to work with young people aged 13-25. We received no reply, so we contacted the Office of the Scottish Charity […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Unquestionables</media:keywords>
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<title>The plainest sight</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-plainest-sight</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-plainest-sight</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You know what, Surrey Live, we think you’re probably right. We DO think people will remember him. Some of those details are the sort of things that stick in the mind. And Ireland didn’t exactly keep it under wraps. ? The cover art is particularly on the nose. “Stay weird.” “Just be you.” “Be that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, plainest, sight</media:keywords>
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<title>Meet The FILTH</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/meet-the-filth</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/meet-the-filth</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It stands for “Failed In London, Try Holyrood”, of course. So enjoy The March Of The Rejects next year, as the SNP explains to you why you were wrong not to elect these candidates last year and gives you a chance to atone for your shameful error. You lucky people. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Meet, The, FILTH</media:keywords>
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<title>Signal and noise</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/signal-and-noise</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/signal-and-noise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Presiding Officer has finally reluctantly deigned to allow the Scottish Parliament to discuss the issues arising from Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife, in the shape of a debate taking place in the chamber this afternoon brought forward by the Scottish Tories. We suspect that watching it will be profound waste of time and a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Signal, and, noise</media:keywords>
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<title>The evolution of fairness</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-evolution-of-fairness</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-evolution-of-fairness</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Some of our more alert readers may recall the events of four years ago this month, when a mob of SNP representatives all suddenly raged against the idea of (perfectly legally) “gaming” the Holyrood electoral system to produce a pro-indy supermajority. Voters try to organise themselves to maximise their desired outcomes all the time (see […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, evolution, fairness</media:keywords>
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<title>Tartan Messiah 2</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tartan-messiah-2</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tartan-messiah-2</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We don’t need a cartoonist today. How could he be funnier than this? Please let us one day discover who the wailing colleague was. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tartan, Messiah</media:keywords>
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<title>The message on an ill wind</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-message-on-an-ill-wind</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-message-on-an-ill-wind</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s one of the most profoundly disappointing things about the last decade of Scottish politics that for about five minutes in 2015 we all thought that this awful dunderheaded foghorn was a bright new hope for the future. But you live and learn. At least, some of us do. When you see who’s interviewing Mhairi […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, message, ill, wind</media:keywords>
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<title>Green Eggs And Bams</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/green-eggs-and-bams</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/green-eggs-and-bams</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In April 2021, the SNP were still the undisputed masters of all they surveyed. A poll conducted by Ipsos MORI that month showed them on 53% of the vote for the Scottish Parliament, a jawdropping 33 points ahead of their nearest rivals. When the Holyrood election a month later was held, they won 64 seats, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Green, Eggs, And, Bams</media:keywords>
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<title>The tint of rose</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-tint-of-rose</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-tint-of-rose</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What with this poll apparently being such terrific news for John Swinney’s runaway popularity with the people of Scotland, readers might be wondering why SNP MSP Graeme Dey has apparently forgotten to include the actual figures or link to the source so that people can find out for themselves. Or, y’know, you might not. Because […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, tint, rose</media:keywords>
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<title>Challengers Deep</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/challengers-deep</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/challengers-deep</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Challengers, Deep</media:keywords>
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<title>Groundhog Decade</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/groundhog-decade</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/groundhog-decade</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Welcome back to what will hopefully be normal service after we’ve been spending the last few days battling off a determined and temporarily successful attempt at hacking the site. Apologies to those who had clicks intercepted and redirected to a malware site which tried to get people to download dodgy .EXE files, but our readers […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Groundhog, Decade</media:keywords>
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<title>Why I’m Never Leaving Twitter</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-im-never-leaving-twitter</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-im-never-leaving-twitter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You just don’t get this sort of quality content on Bluesky. (They’d faint, poor lambs.) And all the furry nappy porn is a poor substitute. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Why, I’m, Never, Leaving, Twitter</media:keywords>
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<title>The thickness of blood</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thickness-of-blood</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thickness-of-blood</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Much of Scotland, and indeed the rest of the UK and beyond (the story below ran in the London Standard), has been transfixed this week by the ongoing and scarcely believable trainwreck that is Sandie Peggie Vs NHS Fife. The tribunal has now overrun the time allotted to it, and will reconvene for another 10 […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, thickness, blood</media:keywords>
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<title>For Mridul And Sandy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-mridul-and-sandy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-mridul-and-sandy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This site hasn’t had much nice to say about the former CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, Mridul Wadhwa, or the (incredibly) still-CEO of Rape Crisis Scotland, Sandy Brindley. But we’re going to thank them today, because it’s hard to see how anyone else could have been chiefly responsible for this. Just four and a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>For, Mridul, And, Sandy</media:keywords>
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<title>Bricked&#45;up windows</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bricked-up-windows</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bricked-up-windows</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Readers may have noticed recent speculation in the media (based on the wording of a press release) that Police Scotland had ended their investigations regarding Operation Branchform. As it happened we’d already submitted a Freedom Of Information of request aimed at finding that out, and the response arrived this evening. You can read it below. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bricked-up, windows</media:keywords>
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<title>The Front On The Volga</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-front-on-the-volga</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-front-on-the-volga</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As alert Wings readers know, we’re fond of a WW2 analogy from time to time. The conflict is so extensively documented, and so deeply embedded in British culture (for both good and ill), that it’s a reliable tool for getting points across concisely and clearly. (It’s also one of the last major wars in which, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Front, The, Volga</media:keywords>
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<title>The End Of The Reich</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-reich</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-reich</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For 10 years in Germany between 1935 and 1945, Jewish people were not legally human. The Nuremberg Laws, drafted in large part by Wilhelm Stuckart, established the principle in law that Jews were to be denied any rights on the basis that they were untermensch, a German word literally meaning “subhuman”. It would be, to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, End, The, Reich</media:keywords>
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<title>The Joker</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-joker</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-joker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Joker</media:keywords>
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<title>The smirking scorpion</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-smirking-scorpion</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-smirking-scorpion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s take a passing moment just to reflect on how grotesque this is. When she was leader, Sturgeon forced people like Michelle Thomson and Mark McDonald – neither of whom were even spoken to by police, let alone arrested or questioned or charged – out of the SNP lest even the mere suggestion of wrongdoing bring […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, smirking, scorpion</media:keywords>
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<title>Seeding the briar patch</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/seeding-the-briar-patch</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/seeding-the-briar-patch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is the SNP’s latest messaging. Ministers, MSPs, payroll drones and the central party account were all tweeting variations on the line yesterday. And it’s quite difficult even just to count the number of different ways in which it’s not just mind-bogglingly offensive, but also clatteringly, jaw-droppingly stupid. We’re not going to list them all […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Seeding, the, briar, patch</media:keywords>
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<title>Closer To Home</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/closer-to-home</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/closer-to-home</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s a well-known truism that if a newspaper headline is phrased as a question, the answer to that question is always “No”. And nothing’s changed here. It’s a little too early to be writing Anas Sarwar’s political epitaph. It remains this site’s view that the most likely outcome of the 2026 Holyrood election is a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Closer, Home</media:keywords>
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<title>Freedom of choice</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/freedom-of-choice</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/freedom-of-choice</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s worth remembering that they didn’t have to do this. Labour had already announced their intention to abstain. There was no danger of the budget being defeated. So the SNP could have allocated however much money they wanted from their increased funding to the pursuit of independence. And maybe they did. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Freedom, choice</media:keywords>
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<title>Saying sooths</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/saying-sooths</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/saying-sooths</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ People sometimes ask us if we get bored of being right all the time. But in truth, we just wish we had to work a bit harder at it. Because anyone with a pair of eyes in their head in the last few years could see that the SNP have been gradually softening up their […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Saying, sooths</media:keywords>
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<title>The Silent Revolution</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-silent-revolution</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-silent-revolution</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Robin McAlpine published a very important piece yesterday, detailing how the SNP is about to become even more of a leadership dictatorship than it already is. You can read the article to see why this is a change of enormous importance, and a catastrophic one for the independence movement. It will make it just under […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Silent, Revolution</media:keywords>
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<title>A short treatise on stalking</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-short-treatise-on-stalking</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-short-treatise-on-stalking</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re stuck indoors waiting for a repairman today, so we had a little read-around of some of the less popular Scottish politics blogs to pass the time, and noted this: James Kelly of Scot Goes Pop, which we gather from its front page was seemingly one of the “Top 50 Left-Wing Blogs of 2011”, is […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>short, treatise, stalking</media:keywords>
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<title>The Great Hollowing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-hollowing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-hollowing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The wild thing about this poll isn’t the headline that six months after winning a massive landslide majority, Keir Starmer now trails Nigel Farage – leader of a party with five MPs to Starmer’s 411 – as the electorate’s choice for best Prime Minister. It’s the little grey numbers sitting quietly at the bottom. Because […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Great, Hollowing</media:keywords>
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<title>Poisoning The Unwell</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/poisoning-the-unwell</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/poisoning-the-unwell</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Poisoning, The, Unwell</media:keywords>
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<title>The same old tricks</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-same-old-tricks</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-same-old-tricks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Way back in the day, the Lib Dems in particular, but also other parties and the “Better Together” campaign, were infamous for the “dodgy barchart” tactic. And so degraded is the modern SNP, it’s now scraping the same barrel. Here’s a graphic the party’s MSPs have been tweeting this week, made up to look like […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, same, old, tricks</media:keywords>
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<title>A crisis of democracy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-crisis-of-democracy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-crisis-of-democracy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably democratic. Not only did Trump win under the electoral college system by a huge 312-226 margin, and secure control of both the Senate […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>crisis, democracy</media:keywords>
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<title>Nicola’s Non&#45;Truths</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicolas-non-truths</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicolas-non-truths</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Peter Murrell really ought to have seen the writing on the wall a while ago. But at least it’s in keeping with her track record. (Nicola Sturgeon resigned less than two years later.) (There was no fresh independence referendum.) (Only 1 in 10 pupils had received their free laptop when the scheme was scrapped.) (The […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Nicola’s, Non-Truths</media:keywords>
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<title>Inability To Learn</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inability-to-learn</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inability-to-learn</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Y’know, maybe we were a little harsh on the lads at Holyrood Sources yesterday when we implied that a more direct and aggressive interviewing style might have cut through John Swinney and Kate Forbes’ pathetically feeble waffling evasion on the SNP’s lack of an independence strategy in their recent podcast. But the closest thing (along […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Inability, Learn</media:keywords>
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<title>In Ruins</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/in-ruins</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/in-ruins</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Don’t watch this. You’ll only waste 12 minutes of your life making yourself angry. ? It’s our job to be angry for you. Quite aside from anything else, the title is a barefaced lie. There is nothing remotely resembling a “route to independence” aired anywhere in the interview. Despite being gently pressed by former SNP […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ruins</media:keywords>
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<title>Eyes Full Of Beams</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/eyes-full-of-beams</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/eyes-full-of-beams</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The National carried a strange article yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, about a Brussels-based political thinktank supposedly linked to the right-wing Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban. The piece actually originated on superwoke “fact-checking” site The Ferret a couple of days earlier, and professed to expose how the thinktank was “stoking Scotland’s culture war”. Alert […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Eyes, Full, Beams</media:keywords>
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<title>Dreaming Of Perfection</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dreaming-of-perfection</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dreaming-of-perfection</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Any rational assessment of Scottish (or indeed UK or world) politics at the moment tends to be negative and depressing, so since it’s a new year we thought we’d make an extra-special effort at writing something positive. Unfortunately that does require us to enter the realm of fantasy. But hey, everybody needs a little holiday […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dreaming, Perfection</media:keywords>
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<title>Safeguarding Is Not Right&#45;Wing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safeguarding-is-not-right-wing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safeguarding-is-not-right-wing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As more horrific experiences from survivors of rape torture gangs surface from across the UK, we must focus not on knee-jerk political posturing but on the root cause that led to the failure of these children by our society. ? Political inaction has now opened the door to inevitable political mileage, nurtured from stoking vengeance […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Safeguarding, Not, Right-Wing</media:keywords>
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<title>Where We Stand Now</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/where-we-stand-now</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/where-we-stand-now</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nobody really answered the question in this article from a few days ago. A few of the dimmer bulbs in the indy movement have been getting over-excited at what are still currently a couple of outlier polls from fringe polling companies, which suggest that the 2026 election could unexpectedly return a pro-indy majority due to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Where, Stand, Now</media:keywords>
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<title>Once more around</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/once-more-around</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/once-more-around</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Once, more, around</media:keywords>
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<title>And Then What?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-then-what</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-then-what</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Look, we know that mocking front pages on The National is low-hanging fruit, and this particular example could hardly be any more of a self-parody if it tried. But just for the sheer mental exercise in that stone-dead last week of December when nobody even knows what day it is, let’s imagine if it came […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>And, Then, What</media:keywords>
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<title>Bad Santa</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bad-santa</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bad-santa</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bad, Santa</media:keywords>
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<title>The Cost Of Truth</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cost-of-truth</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cost-of-truth</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Scottish Government just issued another response in the long-running Freedom Of Information battle with alert Wings reader Benjamin Harrop over its conspiracy to frame and imprison the late Alex Salmond on false charges. Here’s a genuine extract. Yeah, definitely nothing to hide here. The release came a couple of days after the Scottish Information […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Cost, Truth</media:keywords>
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<title>The Wage Thief</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wage-thief</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wage-thief</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 6 November 2024 was a normal sitting day in the Scottish Parliament, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Nicola Sturgeon spent the previous evening in London, watching a special screening of a dreadful BBC Three sitcom about – of course – drag queens. But remarkably, though she must have been puffy-eyed and weary, the 6th […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Wage, Thief</media:keywords>
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<title>Keeping the fire burning</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/keeping-the-fire-burning</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/keeping-the-fire-burning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Since it was founded back in November 2011, Wings Over Scotland has been solely financed by its readers. The site has never carried any advertising, we have no secret corporate backers, everything we do is funded by transparent voluntary donations and subscriptions, mostly of a few pounds a month. We have the freedom to write […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Keeping, the, fire, burning</media:keywords>
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<title>Trump’s Card</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trumps-card</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trumps-card</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trump’s, Card</media:keywords>
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<title>The Stupidity Of Vanity</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-stupidity-of-vanity</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-stupidity-of-vanity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The reality-TV let’s say “personality” Kelly Given – who Wings readers previously met on a trip to New York for Tartan Week with a raft of SNP let’s say “celebrities” a couple of months ago – has been off on another nice holiday. ? Last night she told both the viewers of BBC Scotland’s “Seven […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Part of the problem</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/part-of-the-problem</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/part-of-the-problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There was an independence rally in Ayr today. They got a fairly nice sunny day for it. But in the supposed “summer of independence”, the self-proclaimed “First Activist” wasn’t there. That’s because he was here instead. As far as we’re aware, LGBT Youth Scotland remains under police investigation for the suspected grooming and sexual exploitation […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Boab The Builder</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boab-the-builder</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boab-the-builder</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Never learned to shovel</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/never-learned-to-shovel</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/never-learned-to-shovel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Me talking about debanking on TalkTV earlier today. ? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Fears For Souvenirs</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fears-for-souvenirs</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fears-for-souvenirs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Allow us to present Exhibit C, if you know what we’re saying. Won’t someone rid them of this turbulent priest once and for all? Alert readers will recall that a couple of days ago we noted the terror visibly gripping the Unionist establishment at the resurgence once more of their bete noir of decades past, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Return Of The Fear</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/return-of-the-fear</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/return-of-the-fear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wings readers are of course the last people in the country who need any reminding of what a ditch-slithering creature Scottish Labour activist Duncan Hothersall is. And in truth by his standards these tweets are only about averagely despicable. But it’s what they don’t say that’s notable. The casual dismissal of Salmond being completely acquitted […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Drowning Man</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-drowning-man</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-drowning-man</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Electric Chair</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-electric-chair</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-electric-chair</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At least, we assume there was a sizeable current being passed through it, as little else could explain the visibly uncomfortable half-hour experienced by hapless Stonewall chair Iain Anderson with Beth Rigby last night, or the seemingly random changes every few seconds in his facial expressions, body language and accent. (Just about the only constant, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The murmur of the cottonwood trees</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-murmur-of-the-cottonwood-trees</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-murmur-of-the-cottonwood-trees</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Even not-very-alert readers will have noticed that we’re taking a little summer holiday in the complete absence of any political events. Rest assured that we’re using the time to patrol Bath diligently for bears. But we couldn’t help noticing this on Twitter today. Someone tweeted it to show that as late as summer 2020 the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Ferreting about</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ferreting-about</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ferreting-about</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>A fuse is lit</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-fuse-is-lit</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-fuse-is-lit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Those first three paragraphs. Ooft. And the rest of it doesn’t pull many punches either. Let’s hope it’s just the first crack in the dam. The opportunity for the others in the party to find their courage is fast ebbing away, and history will be unmerciful if they don’t seize it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Spare Wheels</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-spare-wheels</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-spare-wheels</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s not much to be cheerful about in Scottish politics at the moment, so let’s take a moment to be uncharacteristically positive about the future. Because you’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at this. Wings readers will be familiar with Ellie Gomersall, a delightful chap from the seriously deranged paedophile-and-rape apologist “Rainbow […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Penny Royalty</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/penny-royalty</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/penny-royalty</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Advertisement Feature</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/advertisement-feature</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/advertisement-feature</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Just for a change, let’s have a Friday-night competition! Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that former First Minister Alex Salmond is staging a show in the Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Fringe next month, from 4-13 August. You may even have seen a bit of online criticism from certain po-faced pseudonats about the fact that Salmond […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Engines Of Censorship</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-engines-of-censorship</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-engines-of-censorship</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is our sad duty to inform readers that deranged, shovel-handed Scottish Greens member and known associate of rapists and paedophiles Scott “Heather” Herbert has taken the hump at a Wings article from yesterday in which he was satirically featured. He filed a malicious false copyright claim with YouTube which resulted in a silent video […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Doing it for the kids</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doing-it-for-the-kids</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doing-it-for-the-kids</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Although we’ve only mentioned him in passing in articles about other people, serial Labour and Green election failure Heather Herbert is one of the creepiest and most irresponsible men in Scottish transactivism. (We don’t know whether Herbert is his birth surname or if he chose it in tribute to the paedophile “Herbert the pervert” character […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ruined In A Day</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ruined-in-a-day</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ruined-in-a-day</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Hannah Graf MBE (below, right, receiving the decoration from Prince William in 2019 for his “work updating LGBTQ policy in the British Army”) is a very strange fella. And not just for the obvious reason. After joining the army straight out of university in 2009 and spending several years in it as a (gay) man, including […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>News Roundup</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/news-roundup</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/news-roundup</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Here are three recent newspaper stories. This one’s from two weeks ago: A wealthy businessman, related to an SNP MP, is alleged to have donated tens of thousands of pounds in envelopes to the party which it is claimed have unlawfully not been recorded with the Electoral Commission. Here’s one from yesterday: The SNP has […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Now You See It</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/now-you-see-it</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fun with numbers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fun-with-numbers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fun-with-numbers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As a corollary to this piece from earlier today, here’s a nice simple picture. Alert readers will already have spotted the problem with it. Because what it appears to show is that over the last six years the SNP’s income from membership fees went down when its supposed number of members went up, and vice […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fun with words</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fun-with-words</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fun-with-words</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is, strictly speaking, semantically, true: It is, however, as the famous phrase goes, not the whole truth. Because what the auditors actually said: …in fact constitutes a STATEMENT – not a “suggestion” – that the auditors DO NOT KNOW whether the accounts present an accurate picture of the party’s financial position or not. (Which […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Unserious People</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/unserious-people</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/unserious-people</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”. Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Burning House</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-burning-house</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-burning-house</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This one goes out to all the “rebel” MSPs at the SNP desks in Holyrood. ? Because it’s nearly time for you to choose whether you want to fight, or die meekly. We don’t mean literally die, of course. We’re not threatening anyone. But the 316-year campaign for Scottish independence is tied to a stake […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Cassandra Crossing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cassandra-crossing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cassandra-crossing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 24 hours on, pretty much everyone seems to have come to the same conclusion (with the assistance of briefings from the FM himself) about Humza Yousaf’s “independence strategy” as the one Wings saw immediately yesterday, namely that he’s taken Nicola Sturgeon’s flawed version of a de-facto referendum and made it even less credible. In as […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Final Burn</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-final-burn</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-final-burn</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The word “packed” is working very hard here. Because the video Riddoch tweeted tells a rather different story. The Caird Hall in Dundee seats 1200 people in its main stalls, and another 800 if you include the gallery and balconies. So if the upstairs sections are almost totally empty and there are a significant number […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Going Nowhere</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/going-nowhere</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/going-nowhere</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kiss With A Fist</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kiss-with-a-fist</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kiss-with-a-fist</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve seen some hilarious demands for “unity” in the independence movement in the last couple of years, almost all of them from the most divisive figures ever to wave a wee plastic Saltire (Pete Wishart, Neil Mackay, Wee Ginger Dug etc etc). But this effort from the SNP’s new airhead mascot takes the shortbread. Because […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The queen is dead</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-queen-is-dead</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-queen-is-dead</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Winnie Ewing, who has sadly passed away a few weeks short of her 94th birthday, was the second SNP politician I ever heard of. My dad met her, and would speak of her with Billy Wolfe, the party leader who was also his employer at a forest machinery company in Bathgate (and our family friend), […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Spoiler Alert</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spoiler-alert</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spoiler-alert</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Still wondering what Humza Yousaf’s going to say to the SNP’s pretend “conference” on independence strategy this coming Saturday? Well, wonder no longer, because this morning he told Sky News. ? In other words, he’s waving the white flag and praying for a miracle. “To be frank, there is no rabbit to pull out of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Yellow for timewasting</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yellow-for-timewasting</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yellow-for-timewasting</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, no wonder they’re having trouble shifting tickets. Because that’s all your getting for your tenner, SNP members. Billing the above as a “conference” is stretching the definition of the word to breaking point. You get to listen to a few speeches from the party leadership and the most timid and tame “grassroots” voices possible […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Hostile takeover</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/hostile-takeover</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/hostile-takeover</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Inspired by this tweet: We thought we’d try the idea out. We took the latest widely-used version of the so-called “Progress Pride” flag from here, which has an even more dramatic effect on the Stars And Stripes: And we found that much to our surprise, there IS a way to make the Union Jack uglier: […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Mixed messaging</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mixed-messaging</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mixed-messaging</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A man hears what he wants to hear</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-man-hears-what-he-wants-to-hear</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-man-hears-what-he-wants-to-hear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This quote: Does not say this: No matter how much we’re all desperate for a story. Humza Yousaf has clearly learned one thing from Nicola Sturgeon – the delicate art of saying meaningless things in the full knowledge that other people will interpret them to mean something far more significant. Her high point was the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Humza Yousaf’s Last Week</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/humza-yousafs-last-week</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/humza-yousafs-last-week</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So this is pretty embarrassing. The Scottish National Party’s primary and defining purpose is Scottish independence. Next weekend’s “special conference” will at least notionally determine its policy on that subject for years to come. On the face of it it’s the most important congregation of party members in the SNP’s history. The Caird Hall can […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kirsty-blackmans-genitals</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kirsty-blackmans-genitals</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Some of you still won’t have seen them, er, we mean “this”: ? While it may have been the funniest – and Joanna Cherry silently spoke for every sane person in the nation as it went on – remarkably it wasn’t even the stupidest or most offensive part of her speech to yesterday’s Parliamentary debate […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Queen Of All The Cretins</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-queen-of-all-the-cretins</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-queen-of-all-the-cretins</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nicola Sturgeon has not been charged with any crime. Yesterday she was arrested, questioned and released without charge pending further investigation. We do not even know which specific suspected crime or crimes she was questioned in connection with, so it is manifestly impossible to meaningfully speculate on her innocence or guilt (save of course for […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The topical news quiz</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-topical-news-quiz</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-topical-news-quiz</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Your first question, Ian Murray: who is the First Minister and leader of the SNP? ? Ooh, sorry, zero points. Let’s just look at that quote again, in some confusion. “She will be the first Prime Minister or First Minister in history to be arrested by the police, and indeed the first current or sitting […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Now it’s all out</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/now-its-all-out</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/now-its-all-out</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ ? Welcome to Cell Club, Nicola. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Developing a complex</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/developing-a-complex</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/developing-a-complex</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wings two days ago: “The SNP wants to do a devo-max deal with Labour”. The SNP today: “We’re prepared to do a devo-max deal with Labour”. Which is a bit of a departure from last year: But then the SNP is getting awfully predictable. ? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The heavy lifting</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-heavy-lifting</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-heavy-lifting</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Next Government Of Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-next-government-of-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-next-government-of-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Is pictured below. We’re putting it here for the record. And if you think that’s absurd, that we’re just exaggerating for clicks, no problem – just tell us which of the bits below you disagree with us about. (1) There is zero credible chance of a pro-indy majority at the next Holyrood election. All the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Surrender when you’re winning</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/surrender-when-youre-winning</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/surrender-when-youre-winning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s start with what we know. The SNP tell us that independence support is currently at 53%. They tell us that most Scots want a referendum within the next year: And we know that it’s absolutely unequivocally possible for the SNP and Greens to trigger a Holyrood election which would serve as a de facto […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Far beyond the pale horizon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/far-beyond-the-pale-horizon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/far-beyond-the-pale-horizon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In fairness, on one level it’s really funny. Assuming you’ve already resigned yourself to independence never happening, that is. Because this really is a joke. Having had eight years to come up with an indy strategy, and having already delayed the “special conference” (tickets £10, SNP members only) for three months, we’re now told that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Carrying the cans</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/carrying-the-cans</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/carrying-the-cans</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Even for Lorna Slater this is jaw-droppingly dumb: It takes Olympic-class stupidity to publicly put a figure to how much your staggering incompetence has cost Scottish businesses in the middle of an economic crisis. Either the Scottish Government knew the DRS wasn’t compliant and was hoping the UK government would shut it down, so that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Spin the bottle</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spin-the-bottle</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spin-the-bottle</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Scouting For Bears</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scouting-for-bears</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scouting-for-bears</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There’s still nothing happening in Scottish politics, so inspired by the Hieland Coo from yesterday’s godawful Economist front-page story, and for those of you who don’t use Twitter, and by reader request, meet some of my new friends from the last couple of weeks of strolling around Bath, guarding against ursine incursion. Because VIGILANCE MUST […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>High on the groundhog</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/high-on-the-groundhog</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/high-on-the-groundhog</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is a wretchedly boring time to be writing about politics for a living, readers. Parliamentarians in Edinburgh and London haven’t technically checked out for the summer yet – Holyrood still has a month to go before taking two months off, while Westminster is currently having a couple of weeks off for “Whitsun”, whatever the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Appearance Of Propriety</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-appearance-of-propriety</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-appearance-of-propriety</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wait, has Nicola Sturgeon died? We didn’t see anything on the news. Because there are only a limited number of possible reasonable explanations for why police wanting to find out what Nicola Sturgeon knew about something would ask people who aren’t Nicola Sturgeon. (1) It simply hasn’t occurred to them to ask her directly. (2) […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 12:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Cod&#45;father</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cod-father</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s a bit disappointing to see an Italian-born man play into Mafia stereotypes. “Nice indy movement you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything… happened to it.” Perhaps aware that the carrots they’ve been feeding Yes supporters for years are beginning to lose their power, the beleaguered SNP are now reaching for the stick. The […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The conscious uncoupling</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Battered Can</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When I was a boy at Balbardie Primary School in Bathgate in the mid-70s, football was banned in the playground. Of course we were all fitba-daft laddies, so we sought ways around the prohibition. Occasionally someone would bring in a tennis ball, but those were difficult to control in school shoes and also apt to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 12:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Infinite Idiot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ He just can’t grasp anything, can he? Because no, they don’t. Alert readers will recall the last time the SNP lost a lot of Westminster seats – the snap election of 2017, when the party shed a third of its votes and almost 40% of its MPs, almost the exact same number last night’s Times […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 11:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ If you’re still falling for this idiot-fodder after seven years, give yourself a shake. Because for the love of Christ, an orangutan would have twigged by now. And we’re not talking about the long-suffering fans of Dundee United. In today’s Sunday Times, it’s revealed that Humza Yousaf would actually TURN DOWN a second indyref if […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>In your face</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The SNP now seem to be involved in some sort of competition where they dare each other to come up with the most blatant insult to their own members and/or the wider independence movement and see just how much they can get people to put up with. First up was this drivel: Humza Yousaf is […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Small Good Hamster</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-small-good-hamster</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Full ahead backwards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just slightly under four weeks ago, this site told you “It seems very much as though the strategy has reverted to ‘Beg the UK government for a Section 30, and when they refuse, wait a while then beg them again&#039;”. Once again, we’re dismayed to report that we called it right. Because last night SNP […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Well Ye Huv Noo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/well-ye-huv-noo</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just over a year ago, Shona Robison – then the Cabinet Secretary For Social Justice, now the Deputy First Minister – told the Scottish Parliament this: There now follow some quotes from the media regarding the case of Andrew Miller, aka Amy George, who yesterday admitted the kidnap and repeated sexual abuse of an 11-year-old […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 12:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Someone tell us the rules</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/someone-tell-us-the-rules</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ As we told you on Tuesday, this happened today: And we just can’t tell how it works any more. Andrew Miller aka Amy Miller aka Any George is, like Adam Graham aka Isla Bryson, a transwoman. He has lived as a woman, in so far as that phrase has any meaning, for several years. He […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 18:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The King Of Wishful Thinking</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-king-of-wishful-thinking</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ We had to check this wasn’t Photoshopped. It isn’t. Here’s the actual quote. And, y’know, the questions don’t so much line up as stampede at you. (1) What’s the definition of “future”? (2) How is a second referendum going to happen when despite being leader for seven weeks you haven’t even talked about convening any […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Running interference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers will have noticed some interesting stories recently. The Scottish Sun’s scoop on Monday evening – a few hours after we tweeted information from a very well-informed source about the Crown Office’s continued attempts to obstruct Police Scotland’s investigation into the SNP’s finances – would have come as no great surprise to Wings readers […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Battle Of The Rejects</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is where Scottish politics is now. And it’s a properly grim state of affairs, readers. Though you wouldn’t know it from the Scottish media, there is in fact no by-election in Rutherglen And Hamilton West at all. The sitting MP, Margaret Ferrier (formerly SNP, now independent) has not resigned, is currently appealing her 30-day […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 15:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A standard progression</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It begins: It continues: Plaid’s vote at the election fell from 164,000 to 153,000. And today, the inevitable punchline: Failure and corruption are contagious. The price of victory is eternal vigilance. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 16:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>If you tolerate this</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-tolerate-this</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-tolerate-this</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Below is a clip from last night’s ITV News West Country. ? It really needs a wider audience. It’s hard to adequately convey in moderate language just how disturbing the segment – part of a wider series on the channel called “Proud To Be Me”, ironically featuring people pathologically unable to even admit what sex […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 16:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>In A Hole</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/in-a-hole</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Quid Pro Nihilo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/quid-pro-nihilo</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/quid-pro-nihilo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When Humza Yousaf was campaigning to be elected leader of the SNP, he pledged that he would be not only the First Minister, but also the “First Activist”. It transpired that this in fact meant chapping a few doors in Dundee, just down the road from his home in Broughty Ferry (and on the way […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Hole Story</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-hole-story</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Officially Missing You</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/officially-missing-you</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/officially-missing-you</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wings always likes to correct any inadvertent errors as quickly as possible, so we were pleased to hear from an alert reader with a correction to this morning’s article in which we claimed that “we’re supposed to be less than six months away from a second indyref, but [Humza Yousaf] hasn’t even admitted that that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sideways In Reverse</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sideways-in-reverse</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Humza Yousaf has now been the First Minister of Scotland for a month. “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, as they say in Kirkcudbright. In that month there hasn’t been a single word that we’ve heard of the SNP’s “Special Democracy Conference” to take forward the plan for independence, originally planned for five […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Vulnerability Olympics</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-vulnerability-olympics</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-vulnerability-olympics</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last week the property-porn TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp described severely disabled people requesting same-sex care as “demonising male nurses”, although the statistics suggest that they’ve demonised themselves. That charities have had to develop a way for severely disabled children who may have mental ages of six to eight to say “willy”, “hard” and “squirt’’ evidences […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Let’s Get Tattoos</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-get-tattoos</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ You really have to go some to stand out as a proper grade-A scumbag in the ranks of trans activists, readers, but let’s be fair and commend some serious effort when we see it. Everyone, meet Beth (no, not that one). Beth is a nasty little grifter trying to monetise “transphobia”, although it’s not going […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The perfection of the moment</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-perfection-of-the-moment</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Oily SNP MP John Nicolson – a man who was pompous and condescending even as a teenager presenting Open To Question in the 1980s – this week posted an extended and theatrical Twitter rant at the fine Herald and National columnist Kevin McKenna. ? It was quite the performance. Using all his skills as a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Big Sister Isn’t Watching</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/big-sister-isnt-watching</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Something to hide</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/something-to-hide</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers may recall our last foray into Freedom Of Information requests, when a couple of weeks ago we belatedly received a peculiarly evasive response from Police Scotland with regard to a meeting in February between the then-Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and the justice secretary Keith Brown. We duly followed it up with an […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Putting our foot in it</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/putting-our-foot-in-it</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Goodness knows we could all do with some cheering up at the moment, so let’s have a momentary change of tone and kick today off with a chuckle or two. We’ve been working a bit too hard lately, and yesterday’s Wings post went to press with an unprecedented FOUR errors in it, including an “is […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>And so far yet to go</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-so-far-yet-to-go</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Almost every day is now a new crisis for the SNP. But it better get used to it. Because while Wings makes no comment on either Colin Beattie’s or Peter Murrell’s innocence or guilt, it is extremely difficult to credibly imagine how the ongoing criminal investigation into the party’s finances can possibly unfold without several […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>At close of day</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/at-close-of-day</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some years ago while working in the NHS I investigated a situation where a group of very senior staff colluded in an attempt to cover up the misdeeds of a colleague, in the full knowledge of the devastating effect their dishonesty would have. Yet in amongst that betrayal of professional ethical values one person’s integrity […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fashion And Crisis Hits New York</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fashion-and-crisis-hits-new-york</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ As the SNP burns down around their ears, nothing stops the gravy bus. But even as they gallivant gaily around another “Tartan Week” junket in the USA, one might have thought the Constitution Minister would have shied away from this particular photo-op. Let’s find out why. Although we’re only human, so first let’s just enjoy […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>An unforeseen emergency</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-unforeseen-emergency</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A reader has sent us an interesting follow-up to yesterday’s article. Let’s just check what we’re being told there. Progress Scotland was incorporated in November 2018, although its existence was not announced until the following February. Its first accounts – for November 2018 to November 2019 – were published in May 2020. But the next […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Clearing the bar</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Progress to nowhere</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/progress-to-nowhere</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers may be familiar with the market research and polling company Progress Scotland. Readers of The National certainly will be, as the semi-newspaper has run over 120 stories about it, most of them around the company’s creation in early 2019. The company was formed by Angus Robertson, at the time an unemployed former SNP […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>When you’re already gone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-youre-already-gone</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ So it turned out there was very little new information in this story. But the tiny bit there was raises an extremely disproportionate number of issues. The vast bulk of the piece was lifted straight from the Mail On Sunday’s big story at the weekend, with the addition of a few lines from an unnamed […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Also Humza Yousaf</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/also-humza-yousaf</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 7 April 2023: “Your priorities will be my priorities.” 1 April 2023: “Here are our priorities.” Now for the surprise! Enjoy the next couple of years, everyone. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Standing On Quicksand</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/standing-on-quicksand</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ So let’s just recap where we are with this. Because it really doesn’t look very good. It was revealed today that the firm auditing the SNP’s accounts, Johnston Carmichael LLC, resigned in September last year. The fact of their resignation only became public a few days ago, but until today it had been believed it […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>From the mouths of idiots</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-mouths-of-idiots</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Readers with any modest working knowledge of Scottish politics in recent years would naturally assume at first sight that the illiterate, corrupt, self-serving, gravy-hoovering drama student with whom the SNP hilariously replaced experienced KC Joanna Cherry as shadow justice secretary simply couldn’t spell “final straight”, a term meaning the easy last stretch of a horse […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Party’s Over</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-partys-over</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-partys-over</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On a day like today, all an honest person can really do with the Scottish National Party is make like Pontius Pilate and wash their hands of it. Because there ain’t no resurrection from this. Whatever was left of the SNP gets well and truly crucified in today’s papers. Business as usual, right? But the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>That Sinking Feeling</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/that-sinking-feeling</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stranger Things</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/stranger-things</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/stranger-things</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, what an odd day that’s been. Because for a start, if you’re the one person in Scotland who believes the above, please drop us a line. We’d love to have a chat with you. And so far a chat is all the police have had with Peter Murrell, who was released this evening without […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lipstick On Your Collar</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lipstick-on-your-collar</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lipstick-on-your-collar</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Until a few weeks ago Calum Steele was the chief of the Scottish Police Federation, so as due-credits go we particularly appreciate this one. So let’s remind ourselves of a few things. Firstly is that Peter Murrell is entitled to the presumption of innocence like any other suspect, even if he wasn’t so keen to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Two separate facts</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-separate-facts</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-separate-facts</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Presented without comment. And a bonus one, from two years and one day ago: ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>At the edge of the deep blue sea</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/at-the-edge-of-the-deep-blue-sea</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/at-the-edge-of-the-deep-blue-sea</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So a week and a bit after the deadline, this arrived. And it’s not quite what you were told before. According to the Sunday Mail nine days ago, the CC and DCC did visit Holyrood, but did NOT meet with the former First Minister. But we cannot think of a reason, if that were true, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inside The Cult</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inside-the-cult</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inside-the-cult</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In June of last year, I started work at Transport Scotland. It wasn’t the best job I’ve ever had. It was pretty much an entry-level post and it was only a temp gig through an agency, but after spending almost six years out of the workforce following a bout with cancer, two frozen shoulders, and […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Whatever else may change</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/whatever-else-may-change</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/whatever-else-may-change</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scottish politics might be a binfire floating down an overflowing sewer, but it’s nice to know there are at least a few things that are reliable constants, and one of them is that George Foulkes is an idiot. But while his tweet is wrong, it’s not VERY wrong. Foulkes refers to a new Savanta poll […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>As you were</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/as-you-were</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/as-you-were</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Minority Report</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/minority-report</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/minority-report</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s not often we have to correct the figures of an esteemed KC like Joanna Cherry, but she’s made a straight-up mistake in her column for The National today. Because of course Ash Regan and Kate Forbes did rather better than that. Regan got 11.1% of first-preference votes and Forbes got 40.7%, which combined is […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Before the storm</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/before-the-storm</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/before-the-storm</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ To be honest, Humza Yousaf’s new Cabinet satirises itself – everyone’s picking on the absurdity of noted idiot Shona Robison becoming Finance Secretary but the funniest is surely omnifailure Shirley-Anne Somerville as Trans Rights – sorry, “Social Justice” Secretary – so rather than waste our breath on it today we’re going to catch up on […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Better living through higher prices</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/better-living-through-higher-prices</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/better-living-through-higher-prices</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, we’re off to a flying start. This is certainly what the public want. So let’s see his plans. Oh. Everything that doesn’t come packaged in organic Fair Trade hemp is going to get significantly more expensive overnight – something which has a proportionately much bigger impact on budget brands and the people who rely […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The beginning of the end</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-beginning-of-the-end</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-beginning-of-the-end</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The beam on Kate Forbes’ face was quite something. She’d clearly been exhausted by the contest some time ago, and must have been dreading winning and having to continue fighting the assault from within her own party. Her evident delight and relief at her own failure was a revealing moment. The great unknown in this […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Hollow Crown</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-hollow-crown</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-hollow-crown</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Today is the last day of Nicola Sturgeon’s record-breaking reign as First Minister of Scotland. In a few hours we’ll know who is to succeed her in the role. She was only the second SNP occupant of Bute House, and the legacy she bequeaths compared to the one she inherited from Alex Salmond is a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Smell Of It</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-smell-of-it</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-smell-of-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is the second time Wings Over Scotland has asked Police Scotland a question through the proper official channels, only to read the response in the tabloid press before we’d heard it firsthand (which we still haven’t, incidentally, several days after the 28-day deadline expired). But the sidebar piece in today’s Sunday Mail raises more […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Empty Space</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/empty-space</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/empty-space</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Humza’s Sneaky Peek</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/humzas-sneaky-peek</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/humzas-sneaky-peek</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wait what now? And how would he know that, exactly? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Spinning the wheel</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spinning-the-wheel</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spinning-the-wheel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve been thinking about it since last night, and we’re not sure if Humza Yousaf now still has ANY of the policies he started the leadership election with. But this one‘s got us extra-specially perplexed, since at the start it was pretty much the main unique selling point he was hanging his whole campaign on. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Fantasy Island</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fantasy-island</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fantasy-island</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We can’t even satirise this stuff. We might have a day off. If you believe any of the above, please contact a Mr H. Yousaf courtesy of the Scottish Parliament. He’s built a bridge he’d like to sell you. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Final Insult</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-final-insult</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-final-insult</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ According to SNP President and acting CEO Mike Russell, SNP members are too thick to understand the concept of changing their vote, and integrity is “disruptive”. ? We’re not very clear on why a revote would be susceptible to “hacking” in any way that the original vote isn’t, but we’re sure there’s a great explanation. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Casting Vote</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-casting-vote</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-casting-vote</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There can surely be no credible dispute that the SNP leadership election – and therefore that of Scotland’s next First Minister – is, to put it very mildly, under a cloud. The list of let’s call them “irregularities” is almost endless. The artificial truncation of the contest, against the SNP constitution; the packing of the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cleaning the stables</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cleaning-the-stables</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cleaning-the-stables</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So we were a couple of days early on this one. In fairness to the Scottish press, it’s had a lot of stuff to fit in recently. But the story finally did appear in today’s Sunday Mail. It’s a bit grim. But because there are still a handful of elected SNP representatives who AREN’T creepy […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Astronomical numbers of boots</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/astronomical-numbers-of-boots</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/astronomical-numbers-of-boots</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP having a fondness for lying about their membership wouldn’t have come as quite such a shock to the Scottish press if they paid a little more attention to this website. Because we were pointing it out two and a half years ago. It was in October 2020 that we told you how the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Quiet Times For Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/quiet-times-for-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/quiet-times-for-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You might think that Scottish political journalists would all be in a shark-like frenzy of excitement at the events of the last few days. But not over on The Guardian. Apparently it’s all a bit too much for the delicate wee flowers. Carrell last tweeted five days ago. And it’s not that he’s been too […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>If you find that you just can’t trust them</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-find-that-you-just-cant-trust-them</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-find-that-you-just-cant-trust-them</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve just been leaked this footage, apparently taken by an alert traveller, of Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport, reacting badly to receiving news that Peter Murrell has been “unavoidably detained” and won’t be making their rendezvous to Rio. ? So what now, readers? What now? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Patsies</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-patsies</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-patsies</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The mainstream Scottish political media may not have many professional standards, but there’s one it’s still pretty diligent about upholding. And that’s that if a political party’s press office starts really taking liberties and making them look like fools, all bets (and gloves) are off. So when SNP chief of comms Murray Foote (one of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>From a stone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-a-stone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-a-stone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The decline and fall</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-decline-and-fall</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-decline-and-fall</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ …of the SNP has been in the post for quite some time. Because no party can prosper for long when it’s stuffed full of complete dum-dums. In Adam and Tweed’s defence, their audaciously creative approach to arithmetic was also backed up by a cough cough cough cough cough “pro-indy” newspaper columnist: But these are uncomplicated […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The truth will come out</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-truth-will-come-out</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-truth-will-come-out</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ How it started: And how it’s going: But it’s quite a lot worse than it looks. Because in fact the SNP has lost a breathtaking 53,505 members in just over three years since it started adopting the policy of gender self-ID. According to the party’s own accounts, it had 125,691 members on the 1st of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Rogue Trooper</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rogue-trooper</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rogue-trooper</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Hats off to the SNP. Every time we think that the party’s leadership election can’t get any more absurdly farcical, they pull something extra-mad out of the bag. After this happened yesterday, it suddenly become “known” across the Scottish media that the SNP NEC was going to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to authorise […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>There Are No Rules</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/there-are-no-rules</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/there-are-no-rules</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is the SNP members’ website tonight. ? Looks like anything goes, folks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Gauntlet</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gauntlet</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-gauntlet</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, this has set the cat amongst the pigeons. Because the SNP leadership election is now a full-blown four-alarm skip fire. With exquisite timing, Pete Wishart breenged in with his sturdiest slippers to dismiss the whole thing as a wild-eyed lunatic Trumpian conspiracy theory. …having tragically failed to notice Humza Yousaf’s team claiming just minutes […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Human Torpedo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-human-torpedo</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-human-torpedo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Two obvious things arise from this clip from last night’s BBC leadership debate. ? Don’t worry, this won’t take long. Firstly, absolutely nobody is proposing to “roll back” any rights held by trans people, who already have exactly the same rights everyone else does and some extra ones on top, so that claim is a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Wrong Answer</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wrong-answer</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-wrong-answer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ He’s not our man in the contest, but a free bit of advice for Humza Yousaf anyway. When just about everyone with eyes and a brain in their head thinks the vote’s being rigged in your favour, and there’s tangible evidence of its dodginess, and the party’s track record in this area is in fact […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Crossing swords</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/crossing-swords</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/crossing-swords</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Tonight’s debate on Sky News between the three SNP leadership candidates was yet another inconclusive low-scoring draw, with each contender taking a few hits (almost all from host Beth Rigby) and also landing the odd blow on each other. The most notable of the latter was probably when Ash Regan gave Humza Yousaf a rather […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Yoons For Yousaf, Fascists For Forbes</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yoons-for-yousaf-fascists-for-forbes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yoons-for-yousaf-fascists-for-forbes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Unionist media in Scotland (ie all of the media in Scotland) usually keeps up a pretty united front when it comes to the subjects of independence or the SNP. So it’s been fascinating in these last couple of weeks to see a genuine schism develop between them on the subject of the party’s leadership […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sight unseen</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sight-unseen</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sight-unseen</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Since you’d barely know that Ash Regan existed from reading or watching the Scottish media, here’s a chance to get to know her a little bit better before voting opens in the SNP leadership election tomorrow. ? We hope Pete Wishart’s not too upset. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Pension Grifters For Devo Max</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/pension-grifters-for-devo-max</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/pension-grifters-for-devo-max</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve been telling you for quite some time now that after eight wasted years of doing absolutely nothing with endless mandates, the SNP establishment want to back away from the party’s defining goal of Scottish independence and settle in for some lovely cosy lifelong careers at Westminster and in the devolved Holyrood, with well-paid staffer […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>All That Ever Mattered</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-that-ever-mattered</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-that-ever-mattered</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In fairness, you can’t really accuse them of hiding it any more. The faint hearts and pension-seekers of the SNP think that their time has come – the moment when the party’s pursuit of independence can be quietly downgraded to a vague long-term aspiration that will ensure their seats on the gravy train for decades. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Take a stand, and deliver</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/take-a-stand-and-deliver</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/take-a-stand-and-deliver</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is growing domestic and international attention on my plan to use the ballot box to decide whether Scotland becomes an independent country. I have the only plan that has historic precedent, can be delivered legally by Scotland alone, moves us beyond the referendum stalemate, and today I can confirm that this plan is supported […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Letters from the country</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letters-from-the-country</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letters-from-the-country</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ While idly browsing Twitter this morning, we made a startling discovery triggered by the SNP leadership election, and it was this: nobody in Scotland really knows what the nation’s law on abortion is. It was triggered by these two tweets, both of which appear to be true: The thing they agree on is that Humza […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Yellow on yellow</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yellow-on-yellow</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yellow-on-yellow</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The crumple zone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-crumple-zone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-crumple-zone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wings has backed Ash Regan in the SNP leadership election, because she’s the only one with an actual plan for independence and the only one who doesn’t immediately start talking about something else if you bring the subject up. But until this morning we’d regarded Kate Forbes as a decent consolation prize – no plan […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Bearers Of The Crown</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-bearers-of-the-crown</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-bearers-of-the-crown</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The great unknown in the SNP leadership contest is an extremely significant one: who are the voters? Nobody but Peter Murrell really knows how many members the party has, but almost nobody believes the claimed number of over 100,000. (Our guess, based on pretty much nothing but a gut feeling, is 75,000 plus or minus […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>In the frame</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/in-the-frame</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/in-the-frame</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Humza Yousaf will not be the next First Minister of Scotland. We’re calling it now. His trainwreck of a performance on last night’s leadership election debate on STV dealt a blow to his chances that we can’t see him recovering from, and the SNP establishment is now under such intense scrutiny over the electoral process […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A cock and ball story</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-cock-and-ball-story</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-cock-and-ball-story</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s all about the D, readers. If you’re talking about “transwomen”, you’re almost always talking about people with a fully intact and functional penis. More than 95% of people who identify as trans have NOT undergone any genital surgery, and that’s a fact that’s still not widely understood. So in our most recent and double-size […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mike Russell declares for Ash Regan</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mike-russell-declares-for-ash-regan</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mike-russell-declares-for-ash-regan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We must admit it’s a shock – we were expecting the SNP President to remain neutral in the leadership election – but it’s hard to reasonably interpret this any other way. (We’re not aware of Russell giving any media interviews last night so we assume from the timing that these comments were made at the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Boys Who Rape</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boys-who-rape</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boys-who-rape</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last month this site ran an article entitled “All The Nice Greens Love A Rapist”, and two days ago the Scottish version of the party officially confirmed it. But just like their counterparts in England and Wales, the Scottish Greens’ fondness for turning a blind eye to rape isn’t new. The Occupy movement of the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The words SNP members long to hear</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-words-snp-members-long-to-hear</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-words-snp-members-long-to-hear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “We’re working with GCHQ on the election.” We don’t know about you, folks, but we’re not all that reassured. Full story: To be honest, we’d probably rather Putin counted the votes than Peter Murrell. Out of the two he’s definitely the more neutral. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Manchurian Candidate</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-manchurian-candidate</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-manchurian-candidate</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Cinderella Waltz</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cinderella-waltz</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cinderella-waltz</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s take a moment off, folks. In our latest Panelbase poll, we also threw in a question just for fun, with genuinely no agenda at all, simply because we were curious to know what the answer was. Here it is: Some of the detail, though, might intrigue you. We weren’t, for example, expecting to find […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Last Days Of Saigon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-days-of-saigon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-last-days-of-saigon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By now many of you will have seen last night’s article on Craig Murray’s site, in which a current SNP branch convener revealed how the party machine is setting fire to all its own rules in a desperate attempt to secure the succession of Humza Yousaf. Yousaf is the party establishment’s last hope of keeping […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Leave The Kids Alone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leave-the-kids-alone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leave-the-kids-alone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last month Wings broke a story about a “survey” being conducted by dozens of primary schools in the Aberdeen area in which children as young as nine were being asked about their sexual orientation and “gender identity”. After we revealed it and national press picked up the story, the survey was swiftly pulled by the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Thin Pink Line</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thin-pink-line</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thin-pink-line</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade. So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right? Rather than, say, ALLOWING A GROUP OF ITS OFFICERS TO ACTIVELY RAISE MONEY FOR THEM […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>If the shoe fits</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-the-shoe-fits</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-the-shoe-fits</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Fingers on the pulse</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fingers-on-the-pulse</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fingers-on-the-pulse</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ BBC NEWS: [abysmal, unprofessional disgrace to broadcasting] ITV NEWS: Hold our beer! (Still not deleted/fixed seven hours later.) Meanwhile: TEAM REGAN: [no video online nine hours after the speech] Screw this idiot show, we’re off to get drunk. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Old Ways</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-old-ways</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-old-ways</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this. ? The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Losing the plot</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/losing-the-plot</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/losing-the-plot</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is beyond insane. Like, obviously Rangers aren’t better than Celtic. But also, just in case anyone DIDN’T already think the SNP leadership election was going to be a massive stitch-up, it seems the party’s 64 MSPs – roughly 0.03% of its membership – are now attempting to blackmail the other 99.97% by saying that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Tears Of Terror</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tears-of-terror</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tears-of-terror</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine. Steel yourselves, folks. Unsettling images follow. Amber Roberts holds multiple offices in the Edinburgh Western SNP. (We hear from […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sunk costs</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sunk-costs</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sunk-costs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We got up this morning intending to do a funny little piece about how Humza Yousaf’s attempt to fiddle an online poll on The National had spiralled into farce last night, with rival teams of bots spamming the poll with over 400,000 extra votes in 12 hours. But then something a bit more significant happened. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The feather&#45;light touch</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-feather-light-touch</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-feather-light-touch</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, readers, we told you that “online newspaper polls are self-selecting and vulnerable to manipulation”. Here’s what that looks like in practice. Let’s crunch some numbers. Just over 24 hours ago, the National’s poll (which launched on Monday afternoon and is incredibly sloppily coded, allowing anyone to vote multiple times simply by refreshing the page) […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The White Flag Gang</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-white-flag-gang</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-white-flag-gang</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all. Smith, of course, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A time of fear</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-time-of-fear</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-time-of-fear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Indian Council of Scotland and the Muslim Council of the United Kingdom have this morning issued an extraordinary joint statement regarding their serious concerns about the SNP leadership contest. We reproduce it below at their request. The Indian community in Scotland would live in fear if Humza Yousaf becomes First Minister. Neil Lal, Chairman and President […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A change of tone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-change-of-tone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-change-of-tone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alex Cole-Hamilton, December 2022: “I want to thank Beth, who’s compered and did that amazing speech at the start. Beth was with us in the public gallery of the Scottish Parliament throughout all of those late night sessions before Christmas, and you know, in the really dark hours and the really dark times we’d look […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Hand Of The State</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We’ve already noted how the Unionist press appears to be trying to influence the outcome of the SNP leadership election, but last night the big beast of Scottish media – the BBC – waded into the fray. A major piece by the Corporation’s Scotland editor James Cook focused on interviews with two of the three […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Three Fates</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-three-fates</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ So this is interesting. Last week we were about to release some results from our latest Panelbase poll when events intervened. Naturally we’d asked a few questions about gender issues, and one of them concerned the Scottish Government’s potential legal challenge to the UK government’s use of a Section 35 order to block the Gender […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>If you want to know</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-want-to-know</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/if-you-want-to-know</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ …always stick with Wings, readers. If you need clueless guesswork, that’s what the Scottish MSM is for. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The racecard</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-racecard</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-racecard</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So we finally have two official competitors. And to be honest, we’ve never had an easier decision to make since that time we caught fire while standing next to the sea. If you’re in a hurry, these next pics should be all you need to know. Need any more? Humza Yousaf’s priority is keeping the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Road Not Taken</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Your enemy’s friends</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-enemys-friends</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-enemys-friends</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When assessing who might be the best choice for the next leader of the SNP, and by extension of the independence movement, it’s a pretty good rule of thumb to beware of anyone being bigged up by the Unionist media. (Not only because they don’t have the SNP or Yes movement’s best interests at heart, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The road ahead from here</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-road-ahead-from-here</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-road-ahead-from-here</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Can you spot the subtle change between these two National stories, readers? Now, as they’re both in The National the standard of journalism is obviously completely dreadful, and so neither of them actually explains their headline. Nobody is named or quoted even anonymously, and there’s no elaboration other than that “[a member of] the NEC […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Third Rock From The Sun</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/third-rock-from-the-sun</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/third-rock-from-the-sun</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP constitution states that a leadership election should take place over a period of four and a half months. Having not had one in almost 20 years, the SNP are now to conduct one from start to finish in the space of four and a half weeks. The voting period of two weeks (who […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Great Beyond</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-beyond</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-beyond</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So here we are, the morning after the morning before. ? The thing that had to happen happened. What happens now? Curiously, the pro-indy “new media” has been almost silent on yesterday’s bombshell. Among the SNP super-loyalist sites, Bella Caledonia offered not a word of commentary and still doesn’t as we write this, while Wee […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Tell me something I don’t know</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tell-me-something-i-dont-know</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tell-me-something-i-dont-know</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Firstly, some of you owe us money. But much more importantly, why now? ? Nicola Sturgeon told Scotland’s press this morning that despite her weariness, she could have managed a few more months or even a year as First Minister, which would at least have got her halfway to keeping her promise to serve a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Ship That Died Of Shame</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-ship-that-died-of-shame</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last night we tweeted this: We did so because we’d just been told – by a completely random source – that Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney would both resign today, and Brown would be the interim leader while a replacement was elected. We’d never spoken to this person before, but the manner in which they […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Confirmation Bias For Beginners</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/confirmation-bias-for-beginners</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/confirmation-bias-for-beginners</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve just had the results back from some very interesting new polling, and the first snippet is a particularly instructive one. When challenged on questions of gender, the reflex response of politicians of most parties in the Scottish Parliament is to bang on about how overwhelmingly MSPs voted for the Gender Recognition Reform bill. Curiously, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Normal Person’s Political Dictionary</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-normal-persons-political-dictionary</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-normal-persons-political-dictionary</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There are terms beloved of politics activists and commonly used on social media which are a baffling mystery to the general public. We’ve spoken several times of the word “gaslighting”, which is understandably used as shorthand for quite a complex thing that’s difficult to describe concisely, but nevertheless acts as a barrier to understanding for […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Calling Of The Bluff</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-calling-of-the-bluff</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-calling-of-the-bluff</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It might not look like much. But this, readers, is the moment of truth. Because what you see above is the reckoning Nicola Sturgeon can’t run from. The amendment laid by SNP MP Angus MacNeil for the party’s “Special Democracy Conference” in March couldn’t be any simpler. It calls for Sturgeon’s promise of an (effective) […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A Tale Of Two Men</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-tale-of-two-men</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-tale-of-two-men</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Below are two news reports from the Scottish Sun this week: Both of the people arrested were male-bodied individuals who identify as women. As far as we’re aware, neither of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. They are both the same sex, biologically and legally, and both describe themselves as female. Yet in giving statements […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A chance to begin again</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-chance-to-begin-again</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-chance-to-begin-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The press watchdog IPSO, which is responsible for the language used by the media with regard to transgender issues, is reviewing its policies. We urge readers to participate in the consultation. The new draft guidance can be read here. In our opinion it is woefully inadequate and unhelpful. Our submission to the consultation can be […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Augean Stable Doors</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/augean-stable-doors</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/augean-stable-doors</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, it’s hardly before time. But isn’t that the Scottish Greens co-leader in that picture, in the bunnet, between his colleague Ross Greer and Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, all enthusiastically clapping Douglas just a few weeks ago? Isn’t this former co-leader Maggie Chapman, enjoying a celebration with Douglas as recently as late December […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Apropos of nothing in particular</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Some sage advice from one of your elected representatives. Let’s all be careful out there, folks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Nicola Sturgeon’s Identity Crisis</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicola-sturgeons-identity-crisis</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicola-sturgeons-identity-crisis</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The title of this article might sound a bit like the name of a band making their debut at Glastonbury this year, but in fact it’s something infinitely more serious. News broke late last night that the person we must presumably now refer to as an “individual” who had been arrested in connection with the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Plan A Final Final FINAL 3</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/plan-a-final-final-final-3</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Diligently alert readers may have noticed that the SNP MP, former vomit-mopper and permanent embarrassment to braincells Stewart McDonald has an article in today’s National about the best way to secure independence that doesn’t risk him losing his cosy lucrative job in glamorous London with all his fancy MP pals. (McDonald is also one of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The thing that never happens</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thing-that-never-happens</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ People from all over Scotland breathed a sigh of relief this morning when the missing Galashiels 11-year-old Kaitlyn Esson was found safe and well after a multi-service search. The police have arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with her disappearance, named by the Daily Record as Andrew Miller, a local butcher. This was one of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sleeping in thunder</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sleeping-in-thunder</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sleeping-in-thunder</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The First Minister has gotten herself into quite a pickle. ? But worse, there’s no way out of it. She spent perhaps two-thirds of today’s press conference frantically dodging the question of double rapist Adam Graham/Isla Bryson’s sex. She tried to continue last week’s pantomime of calling him “the individual”, but slipped up a couple […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Different cultures</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/different-cultures</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/different-cultures</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Meet Támara, readers. She likes learning and teaching through humour. She’s also passionate about “uniting us all in these weird times”. So that’s nice. Oh. Stirling University. Imagine our surprise. What’s happening to our country? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Furry Friends Forever</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/furry-friends-forever</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ After Wings’ investigation into the disturbing world of “furries” earlier this week, the mainstream press picked up on the quite extraordinary decision by SNP MSP Christina McKelvie to endorse a “counter-protest” being organised by the costume fetishists against a women’s-rights event in Glasgow tomorrow. Because it appears the SNP are more and more openly throwing […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>No Exit</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/no-exit</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/no-exit</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>All The Nice Greens Love A Rapist</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-the-nice-greens-love-a-rapist</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Wings readers are by now familiar with the face of Jack/Beth Douglas, the transgender Scottish Greens activist with a long history of abuse and advocating violence against women who is nonethless feted and worshipped by most of the Scottish Parliament. Yet even after our extensive revelations about his past last week, not a single MSP […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Third Sex</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-third-sex</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-third-sex</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Get ready to curl your toes, readers, as the excellent journalist and author Ella Whelan puts economy-grade script-reading robot Jenny Gilruth of the SNP on the spot during tonight’s Question Time. ? Despite having watched Nicola Sturgeon be tied in embarrassing knots by Douglas Ross on the same question hours earlier, Gilruth was powerless to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Nicola Sturgeon is a transphobe</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicola-sturgeon-is-a-transphobe</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This afternoon’s FMQs was a new low in the career of the First Minister, in which she haplessly let herself be comprehensively humiliated by Douglas Ross, of all people. Worse than that, though, is that she must surely now be expelled from the SNP. Hey, we don’t make the rules. Because Sturgeon’s comments could not […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Fury Of The Furries</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-fury-of-the-furries</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-fury-of-the-furries</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On January 22nd the violent, abusive transgender activist Jack Douglas, who now uses the name Beth and the Twitter username “pickle_bee” (slang for “somebody who likes dick”), threatened that feminist campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s imminent “Standing For Women” event in Glasgow was going to be disrupted by the “furry” community, who happen to be hosting a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bear Toilet Update</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bear-toilet-update</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/bear-toilet-update</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a SHOCKING REVELATION that NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED, it turns out that the people of Britain think that putting criminals with penises into women’s prisons maybe isn’t the absolutely best idea. Just 24% of respondents supported the idea of intact males who’d committed even non-violent and non-sexual crimes being housed alongside women, while a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Round the mulberry bush</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/round-the-mulberry-bush</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ We’re very busy today, but there’s always time for a chuckle. ? She’s going to need to buy a ticket to get back into the stadium after that. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A betrayer of women and a disgrace</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-betrayer-of-women-and-a-disgrace</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-betrayer-of-women-and-a-disgrace</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re not experts in the field, but we think this is what an actual feminist looks like. ? Julie Bindel wasn’t the only authority who didn’t miss Sturgeon and hit the wall today. But when the UN Special Rapporteur For Torture – that’s Torture, folks – is giving your country a public kicking, just weeks […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Don’t you think she looks tired?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s been a rough old week for the First Minister. And next week’s not looking much better. Because Nicola Sturgeon’s incredible arrogant hubris over the Gender Recognition Reform bill has finally achieved what feminists have been trying to do for years – push the toxic issue of gender right to the front of the media […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Safe as houses</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safe-as-houses</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safe-as-houses</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Doublethink, Expert Level</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doublethink-expert-level</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doublethink-expert-level</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is incredible. We couldn’t put it better than Alba MP Neale Hanvey, who said: “A cunning plan… let’s fight to preserve a law we’ve just done a major U-turn on, completely undermining our claims it was ‘safe’. Remember when Scottish Labour played opposite sides of the argument? Well, even they didn’t argue both sides […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Doublething, Expert Level</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doublething-expert-level</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/doublething-expert-level</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is incredible. We couldn’t put it better than Alba MP Neale Hanvey, who said: “A cunning plan… let’s fight to preserve a law we’ve just done a major U-turn on, completely undermining our claims it was ‘safe’. Remember when Scottish Labour played opposite sides of the argument? Well, even they didn’t argue both sides […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Scotland’s Dregs Problem</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-dregs-problem</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-dregs-problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Man, we wish we hadn’t used this headline up two days ago. BBC Scotland’s Debate Night programme last night was most peculiar. It took place in a mostly-empty studio, but clearly not due to COVID precautions because the people who were there were all jammed tightly together in the middle. (In fairness, given BBC Scotland’s […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Upside Down</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-upside-down</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-upside-down</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Sorry readers, been a bit busy with research today. But here’s a news: Now the Catholic Church loves all The Gays and Stonewall hates them. It’s 2023, and welcome to whatever the Hell this is, everyone. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The joke isn’t funny any more</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-joke-isnt-funny-any-more</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-joke-isnt-funny-any-more</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last night we couldn’t help chuckling at this. Because as someone else on Twitter mocked, what’s actually laughable is the idea that criminals would never engage in any kind of deception in order to commit crimes, and that someone like Peter Tatchell would be so idiotic as to suggest such a thing. But tonight it’s […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>An inexplicable silence</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-inexplicable-silence</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-inexplicable-silence</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ More than a day on from our disturbing exposé of how the Scottish Parliament has been captured by a tiny, sleazy nest of pornographers, drug addicts, fetishists and abusers, there still hasn’t been a single comment distancing themselves from the group by any of the MSPs identified in the article, including Patrick Harvie, Ross Greer, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Sometimes there are no words</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sometimes-there-are-no-words</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sometimes-there-are-no-words</guid>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Grooming Of Holyrood</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-grooming-of-holyrood</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-grooming-of-holyrood</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s been hard to avoid the puffy, perpetually-smirking face of Edinburgh transactivist Beth Douglas, the co-convener of the Rainbow Greens, recently. He’s been all over the media, from Glasgow Live and Edinburgh Live to The National (print and podcast) to Penis News to various national TV bulletins, and interviewed by Owen Jones. Last week he […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>They Saw Nothing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/they-saw-nothing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/they-saw-nothing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Our favourite of many amusing responses on Twitter today to the string of SNP MPs, MSPs and assorted other apparatchiks falling over themselves to say that they walked around yesterday’s anti-feminist protest in Glasgow with their eyes wide shut: Wings will have a major article related to the subject dropping tomorrow morning, put together in […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>A better offer</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-better-offer</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-better-offer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Look, no elephants</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/look-no-elephants</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/look-no-elephants</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Our sinister network of shadowy agents informs us that the document below has just been sent by Murray Foote to all SNP Parliamentarians. (Click to enlarge.) It would appear that the SNP is feeling some heat. Because while dismissing the notion of triggering an early Holyrood election to act as a de facto independence referendum […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>A virus with shoes</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-virus-with-shoes</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-virus-with-shoes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Footage from tonight’s glamorous dinner for the captains of the independence industry. ? See you same time next year for the same speech again, gang. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>What you’re willing to hear</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-youre-willing-to-hear</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-youre-willing-to-hear</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The final result of our Twitter poll from yesterday was pretty conclusive. (It was also by a distance the biggest response we can ever remember getting for one – normally our Twitter polls get around 3,000 votes.) But of course Twitter polls aren’t scientific – they’re self-selecting and they draw from a biased sample, in […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The more that I saw you burning</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-more-that-i-saw-you-burning</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-more-that-i-saw-you-burning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The recently-restored Wings Twitter account has a little over 56,000 followers, the vast bulk of them accumulated at a time when this site had far less reason to criticise the SNP or the Scottish Government. So while this poll isn’t scientific, the nature of the respondent base makes it pretty interesting. Those numbers closely mirror […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The lowest of the low</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-lowest-of-the-low</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-lowest-of-the-low</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ …by which we mean “IQs in the history of the Scottish Parliament”. ? Put a cushion on your desk before you start listening to this, gang, or you might hurt your jaw. Because surely nobody quite as paralysingly, catastrophically thick as this clueless, bumbling, deranged and dangerous imbecile has ever been allowed to make the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The short version</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-short-version</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-short-version</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Saw this on Twitter this morning. It’s pleasingly concise. One day, even the diehards will see the pattern. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The endless road</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-endless-road</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-endless-road</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Okay, folks, time to put our hands up and admit it: we got this one wrong. We thought they’d be subtle. The proposal revealed in today’s Times, which will be discussed at today’s meeting of the SNP’s tame, dissent-purged NEC, is the most abject capitulation imaginable, a scarcely-believable kicking of the can still further down […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Constructive talks</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/constructive-talks</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/constructive-talks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The process of softening up</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-process-of-softening-up</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-process-of-softening-up</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’ve been meaning to talk about this for a few days, but other stuff kept coming up. (Click pic to enlarge.) Alert readers won’t have failed to notice a steady drip of stories being fed to the media in recent weeks from SNP figures talking down the idea of the next general election as a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Pete’s New Programming</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/petes-new-programming</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/petes-new-programming</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A few months ago, we all had a good chuckle at Pete Wishart’s screeching 180-degree turn on the subject of using a plebiscitary election for independence, a strategy which switched overnight from “suicidal, disastrous fringe lunacy with no hope of success” to “genius plan Nicola herself came up with”. But after that crude ad-hoc field […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Rorschach Test</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-rorschach-test</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-rorschach-test</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The release of some early 2021 census statistics relating to gender was greeted with glee and elation by Nancy Kelley, CEO of Stonewall in the UK. Vindication at last! (Kelley declined to mention that her figure of 262,000 was substantially less than half the number of trans and non-binary individuals – 600,000 – that her […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>From The Twitter Archives #2</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-twitter-archives-2</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-twitter-archives-2</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For what these are about, see here. This one’s from 23 August 2019. ————————————————————————- I’m going to talk about this story for a bit, and I’m sorry because I’m as sick of this subject as everyone else is but it’s really really important. Tune out for 10 minutes if you must. I’ve never been a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The C&#45;word</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-c-word</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-c-word</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>From The Twitter Archives #1</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-twitter-archives-1</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-twitter-archives-1</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We don’t know how long our Twitter account will survive for this time. But even if it does, there are some threads which Twitter hides from its Search function, for reasons unknown. Try it yourself – search Twitter for any phrases from the text below. You won’t find them. (Also, some of you don’t use […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The suggestion of blueberries</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-suggestion-of-blueberries</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-suggestion-of-blueberries</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers of Wings will know that I have a fondness for sweet and fruity things, and a particular favourite of mine are Tropical Vibes still lemonades. (NB Other drinks are available, this site is in no way sponsored by or financially affiliated to Tropical Vibes.) I especially like their Ocean Blue variety, a deliciously […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>There are no ships</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/there-are-no-ships</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/there-are-no-ships</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The response to our post of last night has been astonishing. (Although we’re not sure how “new followers” is being calculated there. We actually have more than 500 extra followers since 8pm – we can only assume that it’s only counting those who right-clicked and followed from that specific tweet.) And part of the reason […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Raise all of the flags</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/raise-all-of-the-flags</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/raise-all-of-the-flags</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw attention to a worthwhile but intrinsically dull subject. At other times, you find yourself in the strange position of having to talk […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Pleasant Valley Monday</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/pleasant-valley-monday</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/pleasant-valley-monday</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alert readers may have noticed that our Twitter account has returned again. Hopefully this time it’ll last longer than a week under the inevitable barrage of attacks from transactivists and SNP MSPs. (We haven’t had any contact from Twitter about it, people just noticed the account was live again last night and told us about […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Victims of circumstance</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/victims-of-circumstance</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/victims-of-circumstance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In May 2016, this site published one of the most unfortunately prescient articles in its history. It didn’t actually use the words “woke” or “cancelled”, which weren’t yet in common parlance, but its purpose was very much to warn of the puritan, censorious, hyper-intolerant and catastrophically destructive culture they came to embody. At the time […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Song For The Yes Movement, 2015&#45;2022</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/song-for-the-yes-movement-2015-2022</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/song-for-the-yes-movement-2015-2022</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Things change very slowly, then very suddenly. Here’s to better days, readers. Past and future. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wings Over Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Low resolution</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/low-resolution</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/low-resolution</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A bunch of cults</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-bunch-of-cults</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-bunch-of-cults</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s manifestly obvious to anyone paying any amount of attention to Scottish politics that the current Holyrood chamber is stuffed to the gills with otherwise-unemployable dum-dums. When we recently had cause to go through the entire roster of 129, the number who leapt out as either vaguely honourable or just halfway-competent didn’t require us to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The short walk to stupid</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-short-walk-to-stupid</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ It was already quite bold/crass to equate “letting rapists change their legal sex so their victim has to refer to them as ‘she’ in court” with the life’s work of Nelson Mandela. But the punchline was still a chef’s kiss to treasure. Technically, of course, the SNP’s newly legislated gender reforms don’t grant men the right […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Church And State</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/church-and-state</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/church-and-state</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is a most peculiar intervention. Religious figures normally restrict their political commentary to matters within their obvious remit, such as poverty and inequality, for which they can cite plentiful scripture about rich men and the eyes of needles and whatnot. We’re unaware of any passages in the Bible relating to the constitutional implications of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The end of innocence</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-innocence</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-innocence</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>All out of words</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-out-of-words</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-out-of-words</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I’ll be honest, readers, I’m so exhausted from despising the sickening nonce-panderers of the SNP this week that I can’t summon the energy to write any more about them. So I’m going to hand over to some other people. All pics are links so that you can read full threads, see context and access any linked […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>On the hush&#45;hush</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/on-the-hush-hush</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/on-the-hush-hush</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The last few days have been perhaps the most turbulent in the entire history of the modern Scottish Parliament. Proceedings have been suspended repeatedly, members of the public thrown out and threatened with arrest, filibusters attempted, carol services cancelled, tempers frayed and sittings going on until the wee small hours. All of this has happened in […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Disgraces Of Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-disgraces-of-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-disgraces-of-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last night this happened. The events marked simply and unquestionably the most shameful and contemptible moment in the history of the Scottish Parliament since 1707. As well as somehow ceding the moral high ground to the Scottish Conservatives, the 64 SNP/Green/Lib Dem MSPs who voted down the amendment managed to cede the intellectual high ground to, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>When farce becomes horror</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-farce-becomes-horror</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-farce-becomes-horror</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the most memorable lectures I had as an undergraduate student at university was on Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros”, a defining work of the Theatre Of The Absurd genre. It is both a timeless and timely text, on a par with 1984 or The Crucible. During the opening scene, the everyman protagonist Berenger sits […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why do SNP voters hate women?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-do-snp-voters-hate-women</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/why-do-snp-voters-hate-women</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The newest Panelbase poll, which shows a narrow lead for independence, was an “omnibus” one with questions provided by multiple clients, including Wings and the Sunday Times. The questions we’re about to show you were asked by the ST rather than ourselves, but their results are deeply disturbing on multiple levels. The first one is perhaps […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>True faith</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/true-faith</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/true-faith</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is a quite extraordinary thing for a grown adult to say. When a reader quoted it in a comment earlier today we were reluctant to believe it. Googling the words produced only a broken Facebook link and a Scottish Daily Express story (and the Wings reader’s comment), which obviously did little to disperse the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Lies without end</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lies-without-end</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lies-without-end</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP is now almost entirely incapable of telling the truth. Let’s just check the above by way of example. (1) The SNP is NOT holding a “special conference” next March. In fact it’s holding its usual spring conference, like it did in March 2015 and March 2016 and March 2017. (2018’s got bumped to […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Nine&#45;Month Emergency</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-nine-month-emergency</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-nine-month-emergency</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ At this point you really just have to laugh. The Lord Advocate’s reference to the Supreme Court was filed on 28 June 22. The court delivered its judgement unexpectedly early on 23 November, but that still gave the SNP five months to plan for the various possible outcomes and be ready to spring into action. But perhaps […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sugar Daddy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sugar-daddy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sugar-daddy</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Pete’s Big Win</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/petes-big-win</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/petes-big-win</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The National must have been enormously proud when it successfully fought off all the other newspapers to secure this stunning exclusive today. We must admit, when we had a good look in the “Pete Wishart Victories” section of our extensive archives we drew a blank. So we were excited to read on and find out. The […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>On the run</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/on-the-run</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/on-the-run</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Boris Johnson infamously once hid in a fridge to avoid any awkward questions. Nicola Sturgeon prefers a different kind of small rectangular space, but it’s the same move. Well done to the Times for attempting to ask one of the obvious questions arising from the events – do the Murrells have a joint bank account? […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Invalid Women</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-invalid-women</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-invalid-women</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In February this year this site asked whether disabled children should be used as props to make men with sexual fetishes feel better. Just before Christmas, it appears the Scottish courts have indirectly given their answer. An important ruling for women, girls and the disabled was passed in the judicial review of the Gender Representation on Public […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The first sighting of the kite</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-first-sighting-of-the-kite</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-first-sighting-of-the-kite</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ From tomorrow’s Herald. We’re calling it now, folks. The SNP will not conduct the next general election as a de facto referendum. There’s a reason they’re stalling. They know they’re going to have to let you down gently. The softening-up starts here.   ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Lady</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-lady</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-lady</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Situation Vacant</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/situation-vacant</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/situation-vacant</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is real. Sounds right up our street, frankly. We’ve got some pretty exciting ideas. (The position evidently doesn’t pay enough to be able to afford putting the heating on, but luckily the SNP have some handy advice for struggling by on just £85,000 a year plus expenses so we should be okay.) We think we’ve made […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Adult Human Female</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/adult-human-female</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/adult-human-female</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ To its eternal disgrace, the University Of Edinburgh is trying to prevent this excellent film from being shown in Scotland, as part of a systematic campaign of suppression and censorship that starts from the highest offices of the Scottish Government and works its way down through academia, the arts and the civic sector. It deserves […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Nobody does it better</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nobody-does-it-better</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nobody-does-it-better</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There has of course been a lot of chat since last night about the latest Ipsos Mori poll putting independence on 56%, with the usual suspects getting over-excited. It remains to be seen whether the figures represent a short blip of anger over the Supreme Court decision, a more sustained but still temporary period of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Tally&#45;ho for the final chukka</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tally-ho-for-the-final-chukka</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tally-ho-for-the-final-chukka</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Same energy. Although to be scrupulously fair to General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmany Melchett, he did at least actually launch an offensive from time to time, rather than just putting out occasional half-arsed discussion papers and press releases about it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>For English Gold</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-english-gold</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-english-gold</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP has for quite some time been a hollow shell of a political party. Like the Conservative Party, its members have been systematically stripped of all policy-making powers, with decisions of conference on major issues simply ignored and other policies pushed through (most notably “gender reform”) which have never been put in front of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Brace yourselves, everyone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/brace-yourselves-everyone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/brace-yourselves-everyone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s THAT day again. Try to feign some interest, it’s only polite. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The way time flies</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-way-time-flies</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-way-time-flies</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Can this really be six and a half years ago? We suddenly feel very old. Perhaps Ian Blackford does too, hence this unfortunate Freudian slip. Even allowing for the Prime/First Minister gaffe, we’re reasonably sure that it’s NOT the role of SNP MPs at Westminster to “support the government”. If it’s the UK government they’re meant […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A Great Loss</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-great-loss</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-great-loss</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Fear Of Failing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fear-of-failing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fear-of-failing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Word reaches us, readers, that Nicola Sturgeon was “furious” when she joined the most recent meeting of the SNP’s Westminster group by Skype. Her rage was driven by the suggestion that the party should trigger a Holyrood election to act as a de facto independence referendum, a policy we’re reliably told is supported by a […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Triumph Of The Won’t</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/triumph-of-the-wont</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/triumph-of-the-wont</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You can’t move on social media today without tripping over effusive tweets from SNP MPs and MSPs singing the praises of departed Westminster leader Ian Blackford and admiring all his achievements in the position over the last five years, although weirdly nobody has actually listed any of them. Wings Over Scotland would like to pay […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>One more to go</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/one-more-to-go</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/one-more-to-go</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Until we can all start actually trying to achieve independence again. (Unless they replace him with Kirsty sodding Blackman or something, obv.) We have no idea yet who might stand to replace Blackford – the absolutely awful Stephen Flynn is clearly likely to throw his hat in the ring, but we don’t know if there’ll […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Let’s go round again</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-go-round-again</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lets-go-round-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Left: February 2020. Right: November 2022. Or possibly the other way round, we’re not sure. All we know is that we’re always surging upwards and forwards but somehow never actually getting anywhere. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The end of the process</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-process</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-end-of-the-process</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Five and three quarters years ago. If anyone knows when “this process” will have ended and we’ll get our choice – or indeed what she achieved for Scotland in the Brexit negotiations – do let us know. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How you do it</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-you-do-it</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-you-do-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s more than two years now since we published this article, but it’s worth quickly going over it again, because there’s nothing on Earth more tedious than boneheads on social media going “Oh, you slag off the SNP but what’s YOUR plan if you’re so clever?”, who haven’t bothered to read any of the dozen […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Afraid to lose</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/afraid-to-lose</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/afraid-to-lose</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP are impotent, fearful, useless and liars. As someone once said: “He either fears his fate too much/Or his deserts are small/That puts it not unto the touch/To win or lose it all.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>But not yet, Lord</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-not-yet-lord</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/but-not-yet-lord</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP have been all over the place since Wednesday’s judgement of the Supreme Court. Astonishingly, the party hadn’t prepared an agreed line in the event of the Court ruling against it, with the result that various party figures had popped up with all sorts of different versions of what a supposed plebiscite election would mean. The closest […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The snake that ate its own tail</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-snake-that-ate-its-own-tail</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s nice to see the British media (and perhaps, if we might be allowed to dream for a moment, the law) catching up with Michelle Mone. It’s such a shame nobody did any proper investigative journalism into what a crooked, venal chancer she is before now – seven years ago or even four years ago, say – or the country […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Great Unmasking</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-unmasking</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Where there isn’t a will</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/where-there-isnt-a-will</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/where-there-isnt-a-will</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s get straight to the point: this is a straight-up categorical lie. Since Wednesday’s events there’s been a lot of chatter and confusion on social media about whether the Scottish Government has the ability to trigger a snap Holyrood election and use it as a de facto plebiscite on independence. The short answer, as we told you […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The real deal</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-real-deal</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-real-deal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 18 minutes of your time well spent. The contrast with Nicola Sturgeon’s platitudinous sloganeering yesterday is stark. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Scotland’s Day Of Shame</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-day-of-shame</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-day-of-shame</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This legendary soliloquy never rang more true than on 23 November 2022. Let’s be methodical about it. THE SUPREME COURT A panel comprising a majority of Scottish judges ruled definitively for the first time that Scotland was erased as a nation 315 years ago, and subsumed into England as a colony. Remarkably, the panel did so while […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Thief Of Time</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thief-of-time</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-thief-of-time</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So it’s official – Scotland is not a partner in the UK, but a prisoner. Supposedly equal signatories to a treaty, we were in fact captured in 1707, with no hope of release other than at the whim of our jailer. Nicola Sturgeon could have put the matter of Holyrood’s authority to the Supreme Court […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Waiting for engines</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/waiting-for-engines</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/waiting-for-engines</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ So what are we expecting at 9.45am tomorrow, folks? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>For Karen and James</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-karen-and-james</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-karen-and-james</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A week ago, readers, I had not the slightest interest in bringing Wings Over Scotland back full-time. I had my Twitter account again and was having fun and I was happy with that. It scratched the itch of being able to engage with politics (and people) without the depressing business of wading in it for work. […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Eight Years A Failure</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/eight-years-a-failure</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/eight-years-a-failure</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Well, it looks like Wings is coming back, then. Blimey. So let’s see where we’re going to be picking things up from. Exactly eight years ago today, Nicola Sturgeon took over as First Minister from Alex Salmond. How has it gone? Salmond became First Minister with support for the SNP at 32% (just 1 point ahead […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Recharge And Revolt</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/recharge-and-revolt</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/recharge-and-revolt</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The response to yesterday’s post was pretty unanimous. So let’s find out for real. Wings Over Scotland has been produced for free for the last three and a half years. Our last operational fundraiser was in May 2019. Then again, we’ve been retired for nearly half that time, with only occasional new posts. But Scottish […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Great Burning</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-burning</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-great-burning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Good heavens, readers. We’re afraid we’ve rather been forced into yet another post this month on our decreasingly-dormant website. As many of you have already noticed, just a week after being unsuspended by Twitter (to surprisingly unanimous approval in the media from friends and enemies alike, and from some startlingly unexpected sources), early this afternoon the @WingsScotland […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Distant colours</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/distant-colours</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/distant-colours</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It appears the Scottish Parliament – the great and mighty engine of a proud nation’s democracy, with a declaration carved onto its very walls that it’s a place built for the people to peeble their representatives wi’ stanes should they displease them – is now such a fragile, cowering, timorous house of straw that polite middle-aged women are being […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Challenge accepted</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/challenge-accepted</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/challenge-accepted</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As a rule I try not to respond to the literally dozens of deranged attacks on this site that are posted by James Kelly of Scot Goes Pop, but I really dislike being called a liar so I’m going to take a moment for this one. James appears to have taken extraordinary offence to a two-paragraph stats […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Warning Forever</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/warning-forever</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/warning-forever</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Stop us if you think you’ve heard this one before, readers. Because you won’t be wrong. We’re already looking forward to Series 6. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The depths of madness</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-depths-of-madness</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-depths-of-madness</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday we watched the first day’s proceedings of For Women Scotland taking the Scottish Government to court over its definition of what a woman is. The topic is really very niche but will affect us all if the judge rules for the government (we won’t know the outcome for at least a month or two), […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Traitor Pete</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/traitor-pete</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/traitor-pete</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As you might expect, our return to Twitter yesterday caused quite a commotion among the more sensitive flowers on the social media platform. At the head of the pouting mob was of course our dear old pal SNP MP Pete Wishart, who was clutching his pearls as usual about such terrible elements as ourselves – “vile […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>An unfortunate misunderstanding</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-unfortunate-misunderstanding</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-unfortunate-misunderstanding</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ All cleared up in slightly under three years. How long this situation will last is unknown – New Improved Elon Musk Twitter is still stuffed with all the same activist moderators it was before, and we don’t doubt that the SNP’s purple-haired sturmjugend will even as we speak be engaged in an obsessive frenzy of malicious reporting […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Eleventh Hour</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-eleventh-hour</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-eleventh-hour</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Someone had to remind us that today is Wings Over Scotland’s 11th birthday. In a grim indictment of Scotland’s once-vaunted political new media, a site that’s been officially closed since May 2021 is still far and away the most-read in the country, despite that readership now being mostly angry overgrown children squabbling with each other […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Safeguarding is universal</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safeguarding-is-universal</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/safeguarding-is-universal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last week Nicola Sturgeon’s government introduced the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (GRRB) at stage one. Cabinet Secretary Shona Robison’s introductory speech sounded reasonable and fair, but those words do not match the deeds of the SNP leadership and they do not reflect reality. The behaviour of the SNP leadership towards anyone with even the most […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The silent coup</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-silent-coup</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-silent-coup</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, the Scottish Greens received just 4.7% of all the votes cast. (255,314 of 5,419,544). The SNP got 44% – almost 10 times as many. So we’re not sure how the Greens – a party that well over 90% of Scots don’t support – suddenly appear to be in charge. Nor, perhaps […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>They’re taking you for fools</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/theyre-taking-you-for-fools</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/theyre-taking-you-for-fools</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This was blue-haired brain vacuum Kirsty Blackman in Westminster yesterday, during the SNP’s big showpiece “let’s pretend we’re doing something about independence” debate. So presumably she’s made it her priority since she was elected seven years ago, right? But you already knew that, didn’t you? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Serial Failure Fails Again</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/serial-failure-fails-again</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/serial-failure-fails-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Kezia Dugdale, the hapless leader who took Scottish Labour to 14% in the polls, is one of the most extravagantly-paid people in Scotland who has no discernible talent or significance to public life whatsoever. As well as being the Director of the John Smith Policy Centre (a job with no known responsibilities but which nevertheless […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Truth in numbers</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/truth-in-numbers</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/truth-in-numbers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A year and a quarter ago, we contrasted the performance of the SNP’s last two leaders in terms of building support for independence. As the First Minister crows about how much better she’s been at staying in power than a succession of UK leaders, it seems only proper to bring the stats up to date. (Click pic […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>I see you’ve had a change of heart</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/i-see-youve-had-a-change-of-heart</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/i-see-youve-had-a-change-of-heart</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Do you remember, readers, how the next UK election was supposed to be a single-issue de facto referendum on independence if the Supreme Court ruled Holyrood didn’t have the power to hold one itself? Well, it appears that policy has been abruptly and quietly ditched. Because just a couple of hours ago SNP Westminster leader […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Anarchy In The UK</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/anarchy-in-the-uk</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/anarchy-in-the-uk</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The only major prediction this site has gotten wrong in the last decade is that we didn’t think Theresa May would be so stupid as to call a general election in 2017. And while the prediction itself wasn’t vindicated, the reasoning behind it certainly was, because she duly lost her majority just as we said […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Squealing for fame</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/squealing-for-fame</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/squealing-for-fame</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The National has an “EXCLUSIVE” story today. We think you’re meant to be outraged. We’ve got 60 seconds to spare, so let’s do the sums. – Measuring by the most generous possible criterion available (counting Holyrood list votes, rather than constituency ones, hybrid totals or Westminster ones), the Scottish Greens are supported by 8.1% of […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The totally normal country</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-totally-normal-country</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-totally-normal-country</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Between recesses and the mourning period for the Queen, the UK Parliament has been sitting for just four weeks since the 1st of July this year. In that time the government has somehow managed to lose three Chancellors Of The Exchequer and is about to engage its fourth in the alarming form of Jeremy Hunt, a man […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Nothing but surrender</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nothing-but-surrender</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nothing-but-surrender</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Sometimes even fools and liars and charlatans speak the truth. Thing is, we rather liked it when the horses south of the border were frightened. Things happened in those days. But to coin a phrase, those days are past now. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Cursed By Stupidity</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cursed-by-stupidity</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cursed-by-stupidity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Honestly, readers, swear to God, all joking and sarcasm aside, when we saw this tweet yesterday we were wondering how on Earth some clever satirist had managed to hack Anas Sarwar’s account to insert the screenshot into it. Because we didn’t believe that even Scottish Labour’s low-watt-bulb of a branch manager would willingly post something that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Neverending Mandate</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-neverending-mandate</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-neverending-mandate</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This probably merits more attention. Because the SNP are now openly, publicly telling you that they’re never going to achieve independence for Scotland, nor even make any meaningful attempt at it. Let’s look at that statement for a moment – bearing in mind it comes from someone very close indeed to Nicola Sturgeon. The last sentence […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The meaning of tolerance</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-meaning-of-tolerance</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-meaning-of-tolerance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SNP have just revealed the agenda for their conference next month. As expected, and hilariously, it includes a proposal for a “code of conduct” as proposed by the Twitler Youth sturmjugend of the Aberdeen Independence Movement. We can only salute their timing. Because today is also when we found out (via Yours For Scotland) that […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Nicola Sturgeon: In Her Own Words</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nicola-sturgeon-in-her-own-words</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You WILL mourn, peasants</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-will-mourn-peasants</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ An incomplete list of TV channels showing the royal funeral today follows. BBC1 BBC2 BBC News BBC Parliament ITV1 ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 ITVBe CITV Channel 4 Sky Showcase Sky Atlantic Sky Witness Sky Max Sky Documentaries Sky Crime Sky History Sky History 2 Sky Nature Sky Arts Sky Replay Sky Comedy Sky Sci-Fi Sky Cinema […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Getting nowhere slow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On the 8th anniversary of the indyref, and 16 months after closing down (although in fact averaging 1 post a week since then), Wings Over Scotland is once again getting more traffic than the next five biggest indy sites put together. This isn’t a good thing. It just puts numbers to something that’s been obvious […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fire Water Burn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Robert Burns was well known for liking a wee dram. He grew up in the aftermath of the failed rising of 1745, living through the harsh and brutal consequences inflicted on Scotland by the Act of Proscription. In “Earnest Cry and Prayer” the Bard was responding to the UK Parliament’s Scotch Distillery Act of 1786, […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>This what now?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ At least try to keep your story straight, lads. (Properly oldschool batshit-mad Telegraph article here, by this guy. Trailer here.) ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The mess we’re in</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ News update: Alexandria Adamson has been suspended from the SNP and deleted his Twitter account after our article on Tuesday. But in case anyone thought sanity had broken out in the party, this person, and many more like him, are still on its payroll. And you really should be worried about that. Not just because […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Home Of The Deranged</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s not exactly a secret that Nicola Sturgeon’s grotesque and diseased perversion of the SNP is home to a motley collection of fundamentalist lunatics allied with the most extremist wing of the Scottish Greens, whose only interest in independence is to use it as a tool to facilitate the “queering” of society. For anyone with the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Great Terror</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ To be honest, I was amazed my most recent Twitter account lasted three months. I set it up for the sole purpose of a rude reply to Darren McGarvey and Kenny Farquharson, then suddenly it had thousands of followers and I figured I might as well have some fun with it for however long it […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Little Country That Lost Its Mind</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ So this just happened. Which even in the hopelessly politically-debased world of the modern Scottish judiciary might be one of the most extraordinary miscarriages of justice in the nation’s history. Because what Dave Llewelyn actually did was quote George Galloway’s own words. He didn’t just say it once, either. He then went on to found […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Cracking the code</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cracking-the-code</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ First of all, congratulations to the Herald for only being eight days behind a retired website on this story. Unusually fast work, lads. Now let’s deal with the spin. Gillian Martin is an Aberdeenshire MSP who’s had her own run-ins with the SNP’s Tranish Inquisition and has absolutely no excuse for not knowing what the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 04:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Little Respect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Readers, meet SNP councillor Fatima Joji. As you can see, she’s from the hyperwoke “Aberdeen Independence Movement” faction which recently took upon itself to issue a “code of conduct” for independence campaigners, demanding that everyone in the Yes movement should debate things “in a respectful and tolerant manner, agreeing to differ where necessary but always […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>On their fat behinds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By now Wings readers will likely have already seen today’s events in the House Of Commons, where Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle completely lost his rag at Alba MPs (and Wings contributors) Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey for protesting against the UK government’s refusal to respect Scotland’s mandate for an independence referendum. ‘Get them out’ demand […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Trying Not To Think About Time</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A quick schedule for the future. BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2022 According to Joanna Cherry, we should expect some sort of outcome from the Lord Advocate’s referral of proposed indyref legislation to the Supreme Court by no later than the end of this year. Possibly the SC will refuse to adjudicate on the matter at all, but more […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Free beer tomorrow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ You know how the SNP are always going on about how bad the Tories are and how urgently we need to get rid of them? Well, it turns out they don’t want that to happen for at least a couple of years. They just want a different Tory as Prime Minister, even though they keep […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 03:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The trouble with remembering</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ One might almost imagine that once every Parliament, a drawing of lots is conducted at The Times’ offices in Scotland and the loser is obliged to write this column, on pain of a ceremonial debagging and a jolly good paddling with an old cricket bat from all the other chaps in the newsroom. Perhaps the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 19:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Catch 2022</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A few days have now passed since Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of the supposed routemap to an independence referendum, and we’ve had some time to analyse it properly. You’re not going to like it much. As yet, nobody knows why the Lord Advocate referred the matter directly to the Supreme Court before the passing of the […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Brave New World</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We were sent something disturbing recently. It’s from a training course which new civil servants are sent on by the Scottish Government. As you can see, one of the sites staff are directed to is something called The Trans Language Primer. We thought you should see some of its content. Brace yourselves, gang, there’s a-gonna […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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