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<title>ScotlandSpeaks.com | Stop the world and be heard &#45; : Indy Blogs Syndicate</title>
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<title>Has Venezuela Abandoned Socialism?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/has-venezuela-abandoned-socialism</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ I interviewed a prominent academic who is a profound critic of the Venezuelan government, and in contrast a strong academic supporter. The conversations were relaxed, open and I believe worthwhile. There is no serious dispute that the Venezuelan government shifted to some degree towards economic liberalism under President Maduro. The question is to what extent […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Has, Venezuela, Abandoned, Socialism</media:keywords>
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<title>Fighting Back Against Zionist Control of the UK</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fighting-back-against-zionist-control-of-the-uk</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ I today met our legal team and instructed them to submit an application for interim relief in the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. If successful this will immediately lift the proscription in Scotland, pending the review. Scores of people in Scotland face imminent conviction for terrorist offences simply for exercising free […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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<title>Looking up at the stars</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/looking-up-at-the-stars</link>
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<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>Metro Workers of Caracas</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/metro-workers-of-caracas</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/metro-workers-of-caracas</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ President Nicolas Maduro is a working class man, a bus driver who worked his way to office through the trade union movement. Compare that to the western “elite”. In Caracas I joined a rally of his fellow Metro workers, many of whom know him personally, demanding his release after kidnap by the US. I intend […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Metro, Workers, Caracas</media:keywords>
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<title>Joy at Death and Destruction</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/joy-at-death-and-destruction</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/joy-at-death-and-destruction</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The United States and Israel are both revelling in inflicting the maximum possible death and suffering on Iran. After the genocide in Gaza, on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and the USA have a lust to kill and they revel in impunity. The Epstein files reveal the same dynamic. […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Joy, Death, and, Destruction</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>The War for Greater Israel</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-war-for-greater-israel</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-war-for-greater-israel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There has scarcely been an attempt to pretend any justification in international law for the attack on Iran and murder of its leader.  The response of the UK government, focusing almost entirely on condemning Iran for exercising its legitimate right of self defence, takes the Starmer dishonesty meter further off the scale. The RAF has […]
The post The War for Greater Israel appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, War, for, Greater, Israel</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>Rival Demonstrations in Caracas</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rival-demonstrations-in-caracas</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rival-demonstrations-in-caracas</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There are two things which are extremely difficult to find in Venezuela – government repression and opposition support. I am pretty long in the tooth and very experienced in understanding politics and people around the world, and I have found it difficult to locate either. I would particularly warn you against accepting the political prisoners […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rival, Demonstrations, Caracas</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>
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<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>Two Little Caracas Videos</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-little-caracas-videos</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-little-caracas-videos</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I hope to write a serious article shortly about the position of Venezuela, which is rather that of a hostage with a gun to their head, attempting to appease a psychopath. But for now here are a couple of small videos illustrating that it is a lie that the country is failed, starving or repressive. […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Two, Little, Caracas, Videos</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>Postpone The Celebrations</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/postpone-the-celebrations</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/postpone-the-celebrations</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On the face of it the English High Court ruling that the Palestine Action proscription is unlawful makes the decision that the proscription remains in place pending appeal utterly illogical. But what if the High Court ruling is deliberately designed to fail at appeal? I believe that it is. They chose an extremely narrow path […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Postpone, The, Celebrations</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>Is The USA Controlling Venezuela</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-the-usa-controlling-venezuela</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-the-usa-controlling-venezuela</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ My first video report from Venezuela My being her reporting is entirely possible due, as is all my journalism and activism, to your individual subscriptions and donations. We now have a Venezuela reporting crowdfunder. I have simply edited the Lebanese GoFundMe crowdfunder, because that took many weeks to be approved and I don’t want to […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, USA, Controlling, Venezuela</media:keywords>
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<title>Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer-and-cooper-lies-about-palestine-action</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer-and-cooper-lies-about-palestine-action</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft of a single guilty verdict in the case on which they relied heavily to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. I could […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Filton, Acquittals, Demolish, Starmer, and, Cooper, Lies, About, Palestine, Action</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>Trump, Pirate of the Caribbean</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trump-pirate-of-the-caribbean</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trump-pirate-of-the-caribbean</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I have now been here a week and I think that I have absorbed enough to attempt a little analysis, as opposed to the simple impressions I gave shortly after arrival. Those impressions remain valid however: this is not a repressive state. I was on the Randy Credico show live on WBAI New York on […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trump, Pirate, the, Caribbean</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>Palestine Action Judicial Review</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/palestine-action-judicial-review</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/palestine-action-judicial-review</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I attach the full decision of Lord Young’s decision granting the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine. A few points. Judicial Review can only be granted where the judge believes it has a realistic chance of success. Lord Young evidently believes that we have a realistic chance of success on our three grounds […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Palestine, Action, Judicial, Review</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>Being There – In Venezuela</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/being-there-in-venezuela</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/being-there-in-venezuela</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I have now been in Caracas for 48 hours and the contrast between what I have seen, and what I had read in the mainstream media, could not be more stark. I drove right through Caracas, from the airport through the city centre and up to posh Las Mercedes. The next morning I walked all […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Being, There, –, Venezuela</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>Resisting the Respectable Opinion on Iran</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/resisting-the-respectable-opinion-on-iran</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/resisting-the-respectable-opinion-on-iran</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Iraq. Libya. Egypt. Syria. Gaza. Somalia. No CIA and Mossad constructed regime change operation in the Middle East has ever made life better for the ordinary people of the country, nor even delivered the promised increase in personal and political freedoms. The only limited improvement that might be gained comes from the lifting of western […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Resisting, the, Respectable, Opinion, Iran</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>A Step Towards Sanity</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-step-towards-sanity</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-step-towards-sanity</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ To my great surprise, the video recording of yesterday’s Court of Session hearing on the a judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action is still active on the court’s website and you can watch it. I do not know how long this will last. https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/livestream/court-of-session/case-p1017-25/#6dcfe87a-d9b7-49ba-9f01-ad69b8ad9c45 I have been used to the ludicrous restrictions on […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Step, Towards, Sanity</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>Court of Session Tomorrow on Palestine Action</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the western world today fighting for freedom feels Quixotic, but I shall nevertheless wake early tomorrow to be at the Court of Session in Edinburgh by 9am to fight the proscription in Scotland of Palestine Action. I remain extremely concerned for the lives of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. As I predicted, Starmer’s government […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Court, Session, Tomorrow, Palestine, Action</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>Venezuela and Truth</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/venezuela-and-truth</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/venezuela-and-truth</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They many times mentioned Delcy Rodriguez, Vice President, because Trump stated she is now in charge. They never mentioned that 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of her father, socialist activist Jorge Rodriguez, by the CIA backed security services of the US aligned Perez […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Venezuela, and, Truth</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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-every-day-was-exactly-the-same</guid>
<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>Hunger Strikes and Court Cases</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/hunger-strikes-and-court-cases</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/hunger-strikes-and-court-cases</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Fighting the proscription of Palestine Action has become more urgent as eight brave activists enter the crucial period of their hunger strike. 12 January has finally been set for the court hearing on holding a Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. I am frankly terrified for the hunger strikers. Qesser Zuhrah Amu […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Hunger, Strikes, and, Court, Cases</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>The Skripal Novichok Hoax</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-skripal-novichok-hoax</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-skripal-novichok-hoax</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I did not anticipate than an open public meeting in Salisbury itself would be 95% sceptical of the official Novichok hoax – but it was. Thanks to UK Column for putting this on. I hope you find it enlightening – there is information which goes beyond my previous articles on the subject. In about a […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Skripal, Novichok, Hoax</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>Your Party, and Its Conference</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-party-and-its-conference</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-party-and-its-conference</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is probably no bad thing that health struggles have delayed my writing up Your Party’s extraordinary Liverpool founding conference. Perspective is definitely helpful to process something unique. Personally, I could not help but be struck by the number of participants who approached me as regular readers of my blog, certainly well into three figures.  […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Your, Party, and, Its, Conference</media:keywords>
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<title>The Filton Trial</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-filton-trial</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-filton-trial</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “The policewoman attacked by a sledgehammer” has been the constant refrain of the government against Palestine Action. A couple of days before the judicial review of the proscription in England, and despite fierce reporting restrictions on the trial, the prosecution released to the media highly edited video footage from the current trial in Woolwich Crown […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Filton, Trial</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>The Terrifying Case of Natalie Strecker</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-terrifying-case-of-natalie-strecker</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-terrifying-case-of-natalie-strecker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I am confident that over 2 million people in the UK have shared thoughts on the Genocide in Gaza that are stronger than anything Natalie Strecker has expressed. I am quite certain that I am one of those 2 million. Yet Natalie Strecker, an avowed pacifist and mother of young children, today faces up to […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Terrifying, Case, Natalie, Strecker</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>Resisting Authoritarianism</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/resisting-authoritarianism</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/resisting-authoritarianism</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the last three days I have been in London at the judicial review of Palestine Action and today I am in Jersey for the terrorist trial of Natalie Strecker. I made a brief impromptu speech outside the High Court, in intervening to try and stop some people in wheelchairs from being arrested as “terrorists”, […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Resisting, Authoritarianism</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>Judicial Malfeasance and Palestine Action</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/judicial-malfeasance-and-palestine-action</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/judicial-malfeasance-and-palestine-action</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action – funded so far by readers of this blog – has been simply shelved by delay tactics that plainly break the Scottish legal system’s own rules. Our case was ruled competent for us to serve the petition on the UK government. They replied in the […]
The post Judicial Malfeasance and Palestine Action appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Judicial, Malfeasance, and, Palestine, Action</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>The Beat of the War Drums</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-beat-of-the-war-drums</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-beat-of-the-war-drums</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters”. No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows the first thing about the Law of the Sea. Here are […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Beat, the, War, Drums</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>UN Reform and Scottish Independence</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/un-reform-and-scottish-independence</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/un-reform-and-scottish-independence</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scottish Independence is an extremely attractive prospect to states at the United Nations, and for reasons that you might not expect. Every state knows that the current UN structure is outdated and indefensible, with five states – US, China, Russia, UK and France – having a permanent seat and a total veto on the Security […]
The post UN Reform and Scottish Independence appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Reform, and, Scottish, Independence</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>The Four Mentors of King Charles</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-four-mentors-of-king-charles</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-four-mentors-of-king-charles</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As Godfather to Prince William, heir to the British throne, Prince Charles chose his close friend and adviser Laurens van der Post. A paedophile. Van der Post raped a 14 year old girl who had been given into his care for the sea voyage from South Africa to London. He then installed her in a […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Four, Mentors, King, Charles</media:keywords>
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<title>UK Government Opposes Application for Scottish Judicial Review of Palestine Action Terrorist Proscription</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/uk-government-opposes-application-for-scottish-judicial-review-of-palestine-action-terrorist-proscription</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/uk-government-opposes-application-for-scottish-judicial-review-of-palestine-action-terrorist-proscription</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The UK government, in the undistinguished shape of Baroness Smith of Cluny, Labour party hack, youngest daughter of John Smith and Advocate-General for Scotland, has responded to the court in our request for a Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. The Government asks that the judicial review be denied on 5 grounds: […]
The post UK Government Opposes Application for Scottish Judicial Review of Palestine Action Terrorist Proscription appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Government, Opposes, Application, for, Scottish, Judicial, Review, Palestine, Action, Terrorist, Proscription</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>Urgent – We Need a Federal Your Party</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/urgent-we-need-a-federal-your-party</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/urgent-we-need-a-federal-your-party</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The draft Your Party constitution is for a highly centralised, London based party which echoes the Labour Party. It “devolves” – they literally use the word – power from the centre to non-autonomous entities in Scotland and Wales. We need a Federal party – a completely different approach – where authority lies with the members, […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Urgent, –, Need, Federal, Your, Party</media:keywords>
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<title>I Have Joined Your Party</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/i-have-joined-your-party</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/i-have-joined-your-party</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I am taking the plunge into Your Party. My worries remain about its centralist tendencies and lack of democracy, but I will work for those from within. Your Party is not a unionist party. It does not yet have a policy on Scottish Independence. I shall of course be striving for it actively to support […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Have, Joined, Your, Party</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>A Quick Intellectual Canter</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-quick-intellectual-canter</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-quick-intellectual-canter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is more video of me than anybody would ever want to see, but here are three interviews I did over the weekend. The first covers the legal action against the proscription of Palestine Action, Starmer’s summary courts for peaceful protestors charged with “terrorism”,  UK and US efforts to legalise the Israeli occupation of Gaza […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:00:19 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Quick, Intellectual, Canter</media:keywords>
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<title>36 Minute Trials and No Jury – Starmer’s Fascist Mass Courts</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/36-minute-trials-and-no-jury-starmers-fascist-mass-courts</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/36-minute-trials-and-no-jury-starmers-fascist-mass-courts</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors. The plans are devised by Justice Michael Snow. He is the epitome of judicial prejudice. When […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Minute, Trials, and, Jury, –, Starmer’s, Fascist, Mass, Courts</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>Fight the Proscription of Palestine Action</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fight-the-proscription-of-palestine-action</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fight-the-proscription-of-palestine-action</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I have started legal action in Scotland against the UK government over the proscription of Palestine Action, in coordination with Huda Ammori and her team in England. The petition has been accepted by the Court and served on the Solicitor General. They now have 16 remaining days to respond. The rationale is well explained in […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:31 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Fight, the, Proscription, Palestine, Action</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>A Warning from Lebanon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-warning-from-lebanon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-warning-from-lebanon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon;it was supposed to withdraw completely. After a series of attacks throughout the night, the Israelis today at […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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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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<title>I’m Still Standing</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/im-still-standing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/im-still-standing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Apologies for break am very tied up with a legal case we are bringing I will tell you about in a day or two.
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:00:26 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>I’m, Still, Standing</media:keywords>
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<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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<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>What Fresh Hell is This?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-fresh-hell-is-this</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-fresh-hell-is-this</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday saw two announcements. Starmer is to introduce compulsory digital ID cards in the UK, and Tony Blair is put forward by the White House to be the colonial administrator of Gaza for five years. The political economy of the world appears locked in a vertiginous downward spiral. You don’t have to scratch very hard […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What, Fresh, Hell, This</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>Staggering Hypocrisy</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/staggering-hypocrisy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/staggering-hypocrisy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The outgoing Head of MI6 Richard Moore has formally admitted in a public speech in Istanbul that MI6 has been cooperating with HTS in Syria – a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act – for years. The government is arresting little old ladies for holding signs supporting one proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, while it admits […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Staggering, Hypocrisy</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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<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>It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-your-party-and-ill-cry-if-i-want-to</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-your-party-and-ill-cry-if-i-want-to</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There are serious threats to “Your Party” from those attempting to exter undemocratic control, and they attack as trying to destroy the party, anyone who tries to improve things. The Labour Party is now centre-right and the large majority of us to the left of it were delighted when Jeremy took the plunge to launch […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>It’s, Your, Party, and, I’ll, Cry, Want</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>Herzog and Haynau</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/herzog-and-haynau</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/herzog-and-haynau</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “President” Isaac Herzog last night entered his hotel – the  Intercontinental Park Lane – through a service door and kitchens. He did not transit any of the public areas of the hotel, where I was stationed disguised as an elderly Scottish drunk at the bar.  I carried out this role with great dedication. It also […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Herzog, and, Haynau</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>AI and the Urgent Need for a Politics of Altruism</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ai-and-the-urgent-need-for-a-politics-of-altruism</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ai-and-the-urgent-need-for-a-politics-of-altruism</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Humans are naturally cooperative creatures. The ability of people to dominate other life forms on the planet, to produce a built environment structured to their needs, to ensure food and water supply, to develop complex civilisations and produce all kinds of structures and objects designed to enhance interest and comfort, and to interact on a […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>and, the, Urgent, Need, for, Politics, Altruism</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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<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 Salisbury “Novichok” False Flag</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-salisbury-novichok-false-flag</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-salisbury-novichok-false-flag</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Here are Tim Norman, Patrick Henningsen and myself discussing the Skripal charade, at the Beautiful Days Festival near Exeter. At the start 90% of the audience said they believed the official narrative. At the end 80% had changed their mind. I am particularly proud of this because we were comparatively close to Salisbury and it […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Salisbury, “Novichok”, False, Flag</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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<title>Palestine Action and the Claim of Right</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/palestine-action-and-the-claim-of-right</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/palestine-action-and-the-claim-of-right</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In late November, a judge in the High Court of England and Wales will hear a judicial review into the legality of the proscription of Palestine Action. That court has no jurisdiction in either Scotland nor Northern Ireland and does not take into account the law of either place, which is different to English Law. […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Palestine, Action, and, the, Claim, Right</media:keywords>
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<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>Ukraine</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ukraine</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ukraine</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It will definitely be good if the war in Ukraine draws to a close. Too many have died or been maimed, too many civilian assets have been destroyed. However the cynicism with which the conclusion of the war is being driven is quite extraordinary. I am not sure there has been a sight in modern […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ukraine</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>Yvette Cooper is Lying</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yvette-cooper-is-lying</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yvette-cooper-is-lying</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is ooposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Cooper and other government ministers have repeatedly claimed: Palestine Action attacks people, not just weapons making equipment Palestine Action is funded […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Yvette, Cooper, Lying</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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<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>The Music of My Life</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-music-of-my-life</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-music-of-my-life</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The first record I ever bought, age 11, was Artur Rubinstein playing Chopin Polonaises 1 to 7. For a year I saved up the pocket money my grandfather gave me to get it. I played it on our record player, which was like a sideboard with built in speakers. I had watched, on our little […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Music, Life</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>Your Party (Working Title)</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-party-working-title</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/your-party-working-title</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If I were living in England, I would join Corbyn’s new party, and I urge people in England to do so. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are other factors, which I shall come on to. I also say this with great respect for my friend George Galloway, whose Workers Party kindly hosted my […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Your, Party, Working, Title</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>Huda Ammori Wins a Judicial Review of Palestine Action Proscription</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/huda-ammori-wins-a-judicial-review-of-palestine-action-proscription</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/huda-ammori-wins-a-judicial-review-of-palestine-action-proscription</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday we were crammed into the unsalubrious court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear the judgment from Judge Chamberlain on whether Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action would be granted a judicial review of the proscription of the organisation. Judge Chamberlain breezed in and went immediately into a summary of his […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Huda, Ammori, Wins, Judicial, Review, Palestine, Action, Proscription</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>Malicious Mischief</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/malicious-mischief</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/malicious-mischief</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Starmer regime’s attitude to the law, both domestic and international, has been diseased by the doctrine of unquestioning support of Israel. This morning the Handala became the second vessel flying the Red Ensign to be illegally seized by Israel. without a single word from the UK which has a duty to protect its vessel […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Malicious, Mischief</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>The Nestle Cadbury Fallacy and Shut Down Leonardo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-nestle-cadbury-fallacy-and-shut-down-leonardo</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-nestle-cadbury-fallacy-and-shut-down-leonardo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nestle and Cadbury are not the same organisation. They both have exactly the same purpose and extremely similar methods of achieving that purpose. Their chocolate products, retail technique, marketing, manufacturing process and ingredients are in essence the same kind of thing. Police Scotland and the famously corrupt Crown Office (the Scottish prosecution service), are treating […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Nestle, Cadbury, Fallacy, and, Shut, Down, Leonardo</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>The Big Chill</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-big-chill</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-big-chill</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The three female activists arrested on Tuesday for the direct action against the Leonardo weapons factory in Edinburgh are being treated as terrorists. They have been held now for 40 hours without charge or being brought before a judge, under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act. They are from the organisation Shut Down Leonardo, which […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Big, Chill</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>“We Accept Of Course That It Is Draconian: And Deliberately so”.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On Friday 4 July I headed back to the Royal Courts of Justice for the hearing brought by Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action,  on an application for relief from the proscription order against Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Huda had applied for judicial review of the legality of this order. There is […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:00:38 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>“We, Accept, Course, That, Draconian:, And, Deliberately, so”.</media:keywords>
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<title>Lucy Connolly Should Be Released</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lucy-connolly-should-be-released</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lucy-connolly-should-be-released</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The politicial right throughout the western world is baying to lock up all opponents of genocide. The very notion of free speech is under fundamental attack. We need to take a long hard look at the question of imprisoning people for saying things. Lucy Connolly, a 41 year old mother of a 12 year old,  […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Lucy, Connolly, Should, Released</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>Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dystopia-uk-genocidal-raf-squadron-targeted-by-palestine-action-is-owned-by-a-hedge-fund</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/dystopia-uk-genocidal-raf-squadron-targeted-by-palestine-action-is-owned-by-a-hedge-fund</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. Through a chain of […]
The post Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:00:16 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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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>
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<title>The Phantom Ceasefire</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-phantom-ceasefire</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-phantom-ceasefire</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Phantom Ceasefire is simply Trump’s off ramp. He announces a ceasefire and bows out, having been advised that regime change would only be achievable with extreme military commitment and massive cost in lives and treasure. You can never trust the Israelis – or indeed the Americans – with either a ceasefire or a negotiation. […]
The post The Phantom Ceasefire appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:00:18 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Phantom, Ceasefire</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>You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-cannot-negotiate-with-the-zionist-west</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-cannot-negotiate-with-the-zionist-west</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Israel and the USA have each attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations. Iran must not fall for it a third time. Negotiation is dead. Israel attacked Iran during negotiations between Iran and the US, with the next scheduled meeting just three days away – including assassinating the lead nagotiator. Trump then gave Iran a […]
The post You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:00:29 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>You, Cannot, Negotiate, with, the, Zionist, West</media:keywords>
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<title>War WIth Iran</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/war-with-iran</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/war-with-iran</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For 18 years, the Iranian nuclear programme has been one of the top 10 targeting objectives of the US intelligence services. In 2007 they first conducted a formal inter-agency review.  It is done every year. This is not a minor process. A great deal of input is received from dozens of Washington stakeholders, led by […]
The post War WIth Iran appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>War, WIth, Iran</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>Starmer and Lammy are Terrified</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Western governments’ abandonment of the very system of international law which they created was embodied in a tweet from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. which sought to justify the illegal Israeli attack on Iran as “Targeted strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities”. The former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority, Mohammed El-Baradei, was […]
The post Starmer and Lammy are Terrified appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Starmer, and, Lammy, are, Terrified</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>The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-uk-rebukes-the-un-and-bows-to-the-israeli-embassy-over-terrorism-arrests-of-journalists</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-uk-rebukes-the-un-and-bows-to-the-israeli-embassy-over-terrorism-arrests-of-journalists</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence prosecutions of anti-Genocide journalists and protestors, and the repudiation by the UK of United Nations querying such prosecutions.  The UK has rebuked the UN for “outside interference”. I cannot state enough how unusual it is for the […]
The post The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 07:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Rebukes, the, and, Bows, the, Israeli, Embassy, over, “Terrorism”, Arrests, Journalists</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>MI5 Take Us For Fools</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mi5-take-us-for-fools</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mi5-take-us-for-fools</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Imagine my hilarity when the front page headline new “Iranian plot”, trailed by MI5 as involving weapons stores, attacks on the Israeli Embassy and on Whitehall, turned out to be yet another faked “surveillance operation” against Iran International, the “media company” that is dodgier than Al Capone’s accountant. The BBC still made it the second […]
The post MI5 Take Us For Fools appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 11:00:13 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>MI5, Take, For, Fools</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>MI5’s Fake Terror Plots</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mi5s-fake-terror-plots</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/mi5s-fake-terror-plots</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Back in the “War on Terror” days, the UK security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers. Gordon Brown as PM hyped it as a “very big terror plot”. It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it […]
The post MI5’s Fake Terror Plots appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 20:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>MI5’s, Fake, Terror, Plots</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>The Strange Death of Social Democratic Britain</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-britain</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-britain</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system can have some remarkable results and is capable of enacting extraordinarily quick political revolution, as in the triumph then rapid fall from power of the great Liberal Party in the first quarter of the twentieth century. We are in such a moment now. The Labour Party today has a Commons […]
The post The Strange Death of Social Democratic Britain appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 10:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Strange, Death, Social, Democratic, Britain</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>Kashmir and the Indus</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kashmir-and-the-indus</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kashmir-and-the-indus</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the “terrorist attack”, most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by Western governments without evidence. False flags abound nowadays. You may recall that we […]
The post Kashmir and the Indus appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kashmir, and, the, Indus</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>Syria to Recognise Israel By End 2026</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/syria-to-recognise-israel-by-end-2026</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/syria-to-recognise-israel-by-end-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A British diplomatic source tells me that “President” Al Jolani aka Al-Sharaa has assured the UK that Syria will “normalise relations” with Israel, recognise the State of Israel and exchange Ambassadors, by the end of 2026. This is part of a deal in exchange for substantial Western financial support and the lifting of sanctions on […]
The post Syria to Recognise Israel By End 2026 appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Syria, Recognise, Israel, End, 2026</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>Trump, Tariffs and Trade</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trump-tariffs-and-trade</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trump-tariffs-and-trade</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a giant problem that commentators are ignoring. The United States’ trade deficit is of incredible proportions and is only sustainable because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency – a status it is going to lose. The US trade deficit in 2024 was approximately 1.2 trillion dollars. GDP was approximately 30.1 trillion dollars. […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trump, Tariffs, and, Trade</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>Is This The World We Created?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-this-the-world-we-created</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-this-the-world-we-created</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right wing parties and fuelled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>This, The, World, Created</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>Liberation Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/liberation-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/liberation-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It is remarkable that few would dispute that Ireland was a British colony before most of it became Independent, but to point to Scotland’s highly analagous colonial position brings howls of anger. All Empires employ the human resources of their colonies. India was conquered for the British by Indian soldiers, not by British troops. Nearly […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Liberation, Scotland</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>Starmer’s Thatcherite Economics</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/starmers-thatcherite-economics</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/starmers-thatcherite-economics</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You can only support the current manifestation of late stage capitalism, if you believe that massive inequality of wealth is necessary to wealth creation, or if you believe that the total amount of wealth is unimportant so long as a very small minority are extremely wealthy. “Trickledown economics” is at heart simply a statement of […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Starmer’s, Thatcherite, Economics</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>Artificial Intelligence vs Corrupt Judges</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/artificial-intelligence-vs-corrupt-judges</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/artificial-intelligence-vs-corrupt-judges</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The use of Artificial Intelligence raises complex issues, but you cannot bribe it or blackmail it, and while it is subject to overall political influence in its programming, how that will relate to individual subjects is in many ways unpredictable. Rather on a whim, I decided to ask easily available and free Artificial Intelligence sources […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Artificial, Intelligence, Corrupt, Judges</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>The Rot at the Core of “Democracy”</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-rot-at-the-core-of-democracy</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-rot-at-the-core-of-democracy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As 320 Palestinians were massacred last night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that Trump2 is genocidally zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so. In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Rot, the, Core, “Democracy”</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>The Curious Case of Mahmoud Khalil</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-curious-case-of-mahmoud-khalil</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-curious-case-of-mahmoud-khalil</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Two key points the discussion has mostly missed: 1) It has been a bipartisan Justice Department policy for years to attempt to establish that the First Amendment does not apply to non-US citizens 2) Why has the Trump administration chosen Mahmoud Khalil out of thousands of potential victims; about as problematic a test case as […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Curious, Case, Mahmoud, Khalil</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 Moral Balance</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-moral-balance</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-moral-balance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a logical fallacy that dominates European neoliberal “thinking” at the moment. It goes like this. “Hitler had unlimited territorial ambition and proceeded to attempt conquest of all Europe after annexing the Sudetenland. Therefore Putin has unlimited territorial ambition and will proceed to attempt conquest of all Europe after annexing Eastern Ukraine.” This fallacious […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Moral, Balance</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>Alba Activism</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-activism</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-activism</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There are two drivers behind my support for Scottish Independence. The first and most obvious is to see our ancient land restored to the place it held so long in the community of free and self-governing nations, and end the colonial exploitation of our people and resources. The second is to destroy that Imperialist rogue […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Alba, Activism</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>Ukraine, Diplomacy and War</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ukraine-diplomacy-and-war</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/ukraine-diplomacy-and-war</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When politicians in power are extremely unpopular, they grenerally turn to militarism and jingoism for a quick boost. Starmer is now the darling of the UK media for his sabre rattling over Ukraine and is busily churning out tweets of military imagery. In doing do he is attempting to pose as in defiance of Trump, […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ukraine, Diplomacy, and, War</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>Islamic Resistance Movements and Israel</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/islamic-resistance-movements-and-israel</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/islamic-resistance-movements-and-israel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Israel. Hadi knew near which village it was located but, as we drove between large expanses of fertile, well-cultivated fields, it was plain his information was vague. We pulled up at a garage to ask the way. Lebanon has not gone […]
The post Islamic Resistance Movements and Israel appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Islamic, Resistance, Movements, and, Israel</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>UN Peacekeepers Watch Civilians Massacred</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/un-peacekeepers-watch-civilians-massacred</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/un-peacekeepers-watch-civilians-massacred</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On 26 January, 26 unarmed civilians were shot dead by Israel and 147 wounded in a massacre observed by heavily armed UN Peacekeepers who did not intervene. I asked the UN the very hard questions which nobody else is asking them. The civilians were simply attempting to return to their homes in accordance with both […]
The post UN Peacekeepers Watch Civilians Massacred appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Peacekeepers, Watch, Civilians, Massacred</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>United Nations Censures UK Over Abuse of Terrorism Act Against Journalists and Activists</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/united-nations-censures-uk-over-abuse-of-terrorism-act-against-journalists-and-activists</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/united-nations-censures-uk-over-abuse-of-terrorism-act-against-journalists-and-activists</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written jointly to the UK government demanding explanation of its inappropriate persecution of journalists and political activists under the Terrorism Act. They state that those persecuted: appear to have no credible connection to “terrorist” or “hostile” activity The cases taken up by the United Nations are those of Johanna Ross […]
The post United Nations Censures UK Over Abuse of Terrorism Act Against Journalists and Activists appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>United, Nations, Censures, Over, Abuse, Terrorism, Act, Against, Journalists, and, Activists</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>Israel Slaughters and Destroys in Southern Lebanon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/israel-slaughters-and-destroys-in-southern-lebanon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/israel-slaughters-and-destroys-in-southern-lebanon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We could very easily – in fact more easily – have made these mini-documentaries featuring the bodies of children slaughtered by Israel and the hideous aspect of the maiming of tens of thousands, or focusing on the tears of the bereaved and orphaned. We chose to go a different way and make that unavoidably implicit, […]
The post Israel Slaughters and Destroys in Southern Lebanon appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Israel, Slaughters, and, Destroys, Southern, Lebanon</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>Israeli Atrocities in Lebanon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/israeli-atrocities-in-lebanon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/israeli-atrocities-in-lebanon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, Israel also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition). This included a 12 year old boy wounded […]
The post Israeli Atrocities in Lebanon appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Israeli, Atrocities, Lebanon</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>Real Reporting Appeal</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/real-reporting-appeal</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/real-reporting-appeal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Our new mini-documentary from the Middle East shows again the kind of reporting that no western media  either can or will do. We hope to visit Damascus where western media is giving entirely sycophantic and false coverage to the new HTS regime, praising the return of Pringles to the shops while ignoring massacres. But we […]
The post Real Reporting Appeal appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Real, Reporting, Appeal</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 Ceasefire is Not an End</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Genocide of the Palestinian people began 76 years ago. What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the Genocide. Gaza is destroyed. 92% of its housing has gone. Its water treatment and sanitation, electricity generation, food processing, farming, fishing are all now incapable of sustaining much life. Its […]
The post A Ceasefire is Not an End appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ceasefire, Not, End</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>The United States’ Pet General Appointed President of Lebanon</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-united-states-pet-general-appointed-president-of-lebanon</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-united-states-pet-general-appointed-president-of-lebanon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday I did two short video reports from outside the Lebanese Parliament – inside a military cordon that totally sealed off downtown Beirut – on the appointment of General Joseph Aoun, Head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as President of Lebanon. There is no other Western source giving any of this detail – not even […]
The post The United States’ Pet General Appointed President of Lebanon appeared first on Craig Murray. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, United, States’, Pet, General, Appointed, President, Lebanon</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>
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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>
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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>Will Section 12 Die of Shame?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/will-section-12-die-of-shame</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/will-section-12-die-of-shame</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There was absolutely nothing stopping them, but not one single member of western mainstream media ever visited a bomb site in Lebanon to verify whether Israeli claims it was a Hezbollah base or missile site were true. Because they knew the answer is negative, as I found across dozens of bomb sites, and that is […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Will, Section, Die, Shame</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>
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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>The Bank Israel Bombed</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-bank-israel-bombed</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-bank-israel-bombed</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Israel has relentlessly bombed all 38 branches of the Al Qard Al Hasan Association in Lebanon. Why is it so important to the zionist cause to specifically obliterate a savings and loan institution? I investigate in our fourth mini documentary from Lebanon. ——————————— My reporting and advocacy work has no source of finance at all […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, Bank, Israel, Bombed</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>
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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>Lebanon and Syria: My Interview for L’Indipendente</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lebanon-and-syria-my-interview-for-lindipendente</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/lebanon-and-syria-my-interview-for-lindipendente</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What’s happening in Lebanon: interview with former British Ambassador Craig Murray 11 December 2024 – 19:00 The current situation in Lebanon is more delicate than ever. Despite the entry into force of the fragile cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, the Jewish state continues to violate the terms of the agreement, claiming that it is only […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Lebanon, and, Syria:, Interview, for, L’Indipendente</media:keywords>
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<title>Costs – Much Less Boring Than You Expect</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/costs-much-less-boring-than-you-expect</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/costs-much-less-boring-than-you-expect</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You have probably noticed my frenetic and uncharacteristic appeals for donations across social media. This has been an experiment as to whether genuinely independent reporting from a colonialist war zone is possible, and the answer may be “No”. I want to explain the costs to you. Leaving aside for a paragraph or two the costs […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Costs, –, Much, Less, Boring, Than, You, Expect</media:keywords>
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<title>Imperialism is Winning</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/imperialism-is-winning</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/imperialism-is-winning</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ After six weeks in Beirut, duing which I witnessed a substantial swing in the balance of power in the Middle East in favour of the Greater Israel project, it is time to take stock. ——————————— My reporting and advocacy work has no source of finance at all other than your contributions to keep us going. […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Imperialism, Winning</media:keywords>
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<title>Abolishing Democracy in Europe</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/abolishing-democracy-in-europe</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/abolishing-democracy-in-europe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On 4 October I spoke to a meeting of the United European Left group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Arriving a bit early, I sat through a presentation by a Moldovan judge, Victoria Sanduta, who was formerly the President of the Association of Judges in Moldova. She had recently been dismissed, […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Abolishing, Democracy, Europe</media:keywords>
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<title>FOR WOMEN SCOTLAND (AGAIN)</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-women-scotland-again</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-women-scotland-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In my last blog post in August of last year I made these observations (and feel free to skip or skim the paragraphs which follow in bold if you don’t need them repeated): Paragraph 28 of Schedule 3 [of the Equality Act 2010] provides as follows with regard to single sex services: A person doesContinue reading &quot;FOR WOMEN SCOTLAND (AGAIN)&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gordon Dangerfield</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>FOR, WOMEN, SCOTLAND, AGAIN</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>Common Sense and Heat Pumps</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/common-sense-and-heat-pumps</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/common-sense-and-heat-pumps</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In discussing government proposals to effectively enforce a mass public switch to heat pumps for home heating rather than gas boilers, I venture into an area where I have no expertise. I therefore intend to set out a series of numbered propositions which appear to me incontrovertible. I follow this by a series a) b) […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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<title>Modern Life</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/modern-life</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/modern-life</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This is simply an anecdotal tale of my personal experience, but it seems to illustrate so much that is wrong with being an ordinary individual in modern late capitalist society, that I thought it was worth relating. I sit writing in my study. Water is dripping through the ceiling across the other side of the […]
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:00:06 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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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>Beware the Righteous</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/beware-the-righteous</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/beware-the-righteous</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ All of the worst atrocities in human history have been perpetrated by people convinced they were in the right. People act according to the mores of their era and group. There is nothing more dangerous that the inability to see that it is reasonable for others to have a different view or interest. The Guardian […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</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>How the Establishment Works Part 2</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-the-establishment-works-part-2</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-the-establishment-works-part-2</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This article will feature senior judges I have blogged about before, and explain how I expect the Assange case will be finally stitched up for extradition. You may recall that my article analysing the dismissal of Assange’s High Court Appeal by Judge Lewis and Judge Swift – the former government lawyer who had said the […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:00:06 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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<title>Only Human</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/only-human</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/only-human</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I apologise for the break in articles. There is only one of me and I have been taking a little time to recharge my batteries and give my wonderful family some of the attention they deserve. I shall be back to the mill in another week.
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:00:06 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</dc:creator>
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<title>Has Western Democracy Now Failed?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/has-western-democracy-now-failed</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/has-western-democracy-now-failed</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Keir Starmer’s determination to use his refusal to alleviate child poverty as the issue with which to demonstrate his macho Thatcherite credentials, has provided one of those moments when blurred perceptions crystallise. A Labour government in the UK under Starmer will bring no significant changes in economic or foreign policy and will make no difference […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Craig Murray</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>Harvie moves to kill off more votes. Greens wrecking of Independence continues.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/harvie-moves-to-kill-off-more-votes-greens-wrecking-of-independence-continues</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/harvie-moves-to-kill-off-more-votes-greens-wrecking-of-independence-continues</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Originally published in the Herald. Patrick Harvie is set to penalise owners of fossil fuel boilers in a shake-up of energy efficiency standards under a “massive transition” to how people heat their homes. The Greens minister has insisted that millions of homes will need to clean up heating systems “at a pace and scale thatContinue reading &quot;Harvie moves to kill off more votes. Greens wrecking of Independence continues.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>LETTER FROM SWEDEN</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letter-from-sweden</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ from Peter Young of IndyScot News in Denmark. Letter from Sweden: A Twenty Minute Crossing “Velkommen ombord Forsea færgen Aurora. Overfarten tager tyve minutter.” The voice on the ferry tannoy is read out in three languages. The first is in Danish: The welcome is repeated in Swedish: “Välkommen ombord på Forsea-färjan Aurora. Överfarten tar tjugo minuter.” AsContinue reading &quot;LETTER FROM SWEDEN&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SARA’S SPEECH TO THE STIRLING DIRECTIVE RALLY.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/saras-speech-to-the-stirling-directive-rally</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This should be read in conjunction with the full text of the Stirling Directive which is also going to be published on this site. Check against delivery. It goes without saying, I hope, that Salvo is committed to obtaining international recognition of Scotland’s rights. Scotland has rights? Really? What a radical idea. But unlike rainbow unicorns, the rights ofContinue reading &quot;SARA’S SPEECH TO THE STIRLING DIRECTIVE RALLY.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stirling Directive full text.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ EMBARGOED UNTIL 22ND JULYon behalf of the Scottish electorate Stirling Directive 22.7.23DirectiveThe Sovereignty of the People of Scotland over their government, whether at Westminster or Holyrood, is a fact of the Constitutional Settlement of the Union. (See Appendix I.) The right of a people to self-determination is both a fact of international law and aContinue reading &quot;Stirling Directive full text.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>MARJORIE JOINS THE LETTER BARRAGE.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/marjorie-joins-the-letter-barrage</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ YOU COMING THIS SATURDAY? Sir This Saturday will be the 317th anniversary of the Act of Union. As with any anniversary one looks at the past but thinks about the future. During this period, proportionately more Scots have sacrificed their lives in ‘British’ wars than any other part of the so-called United Kingdom. Nuclear weaponsContinue reading &quot;MARJORIE JOINS THE LETTER BARRAGE.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Drowning Man</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Electric Chair</title>
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<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>
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<title>STIRLING DIRECTIVE ADVANCE PRESS RELEASE.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/stirling-directive-advance-press-release</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The #StirlingDirective –  Advance Press release On Saturday 22 July, exactly 317 years to the day when the details of the disastrous Treaty of Union were agreed, a group of writers, speakers and activists from across Scotland’s Independence movement will launch a new, national campaign, the Stirling Directive.  The Directive represents a radical departure from the old, worn out approachContinue reading &quot;STIRLING DIRECTIVE ADVANCE PRESS RELEASE.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The murmur of the cottonwood trees</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-murmur-of-the-cottonwood-trees</link>
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<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>
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<title>LIBERATION’S FIRST LEAFLET</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here is the printer’s copy of Liberation’s first leaflet. It was inspired from a Independence leaflet from a successful Independence campaign organised in a close neighbouring country to Scotland around 100 years ago. Hubs can order quantities from Salvo.Scot or they can request a printer pdf to arrange printing locally if that is more suitable.Continue reading &quot;LIBERATION’S FIRST LEAFLET&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>LEAH TURNS ON LABOUR BETRAYING THE NHS.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leah-turns-on-labour-betraying-the-nhs</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ To understand why Keir Starmer has abandoned every pledge he made to become Labour leader, ‘follow the money.’ This reveals with surprising accuracy the motivation for his political decisions (U-turns) in this plutocratic age.  Last week, shadow Chancellor Reeves sent personal letters to Tory donors inviting them to one-on-one breakfast meetings.[1] Since becoming leader, Starmer hasContinue reading &quot;LEAH TURNS ON LABOUR BETRAYING THE NHS.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>HOW ROLES CAN BE REVERSED.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Reproduced from an Iain MacWhirter article published originally in The Times. It deserves a wide audience in Scotland as the process described in my headline still has some distance to travel. Sunday July 16 2023, 6.00pm BST, The Times As Alex Salmond rose to deliver the eulogy to the late Winnie Ewing in Inverness CathedralContinue reading &quot;HOW ROLES CAN BE REVERSED.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ferreting about</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>TAKE BACK YOUR OWN PARTY!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/take-back-your-own-party</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This notice was sent yesterday to SNP MEMBERS. The key date here is the date for branches to submit resolutions for the National Conference. As the SNP MEMBER WROTE WHEN HE SENT ME THIS “So less than two weeks notice if we wanted to put up a motion when most branches probably don’t meet inContinue reading &quot;TAKE BACK YOUR OWN PARTY!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leah on fire here!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leah-on-fire-here</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jill Stephenson says that Scotland not joining the EU would mean being cast adrift in a cold and lonely world. She should check out Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Iceland, the EFTA member countries who are doing very well outside the EU.  She implies that Scotland wouldn’t qualify for EU membership should it seek it post-independence,Continue reading &quot;Leah on fire here!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>More from Leah.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dear Editor, Let me explain to David Smith why Scotland must leave the UK to have a chance at a thriving economy. As long as we remain, we’re captive to the Bank of England and UK economic policy that has landed us in this hole. We can’t set our own economic policy, interest rates, controlContinue reading &quot;More from Leah.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A fuse is lit</title>
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<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>
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<title>JIM SILLARS URGES UNITY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jim Sillars This article is based on a speech I made at an ALBA public meeting in Edinburgh on Friday 7th. July. The other speakers were Alex Salmond and Marjorie Ellis  Thompson.  Among the large attendance were not only ALBA supporters, but, like me, members of the SNP. I harbour no ill feelings towards ALBA, my regretContinue reading &quot;JIM SILLARS URGES UNITY&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Spare Wheels</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-spare-wheels</link>
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<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>
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<title>A UNIONIST EXPERTLY TAKEN DOWN.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-unionist-expertly-taken-down</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is a letter to the Scotsman from John Brown, another member of the SCOTTISH National Congress Steering Group. Sooner or later Unionists are going to realise that trying to put a spin on ancient and outdated Westminster legislation no longer works as we now have our own team of researchers pouring over the opportunitiesContinue reading &quot;A UNIONIST EXPERTLY TAKEN DOWN.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 10:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leah highlights the Freeport ruse</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leah-highlights-the-freeport-ruse</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The dire implications of the ‘green’ freeports are sinking in. Despite warnings, the Scottish government agreed to auction off more of Scotland.  Freeports are tax havens or secrecy jurisdictions. They’re tax-free and regulation-lite zones where adherence to whatever rules remain, is up to the private companies operating in them. Companies police themselves and no oneContinue reading &quot;Leah highlights the Freeport ruse&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Penny Royalty</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Advertisement Feature</title>
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<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>
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<title>The UK’s Dysfunctional Private Equity Ownership and Regulation Model</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The UK’s Dysfunctional Private Equity Ownership and Regulation Model Alf Baird Recent problems with Thames Water demonstrate some of the weaknesses with the private equity ownership and regulation model. The inherent weaknesses of this financing approach also impact many other sectors of the UK economy and what are, or were previously regarded as public utilitiesContinue reading &quot;The UK’s Dysfunctional Private Equity Ownership and Regulation Model&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/declaration-of-independence</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This article was sent to me by a Scottish friend who lives in the USA. Britain was ruthless against those who sought Independence. I am sure they would still be in the 21st century. Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured byContinue reading &quot;DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Engines Of Censorship</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-engines-of-censorship</link>
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<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>
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<title>TWO RIP OFF’S</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/two-rip-offs</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ TWO RIP OFF’S As I survey the Scottish political ground  it can be a very disturbing scene. The SNP have made a huge mess of things with not even a flicker of light indicating anything other than complete darkness ahead. The missing £670,000 was bad enough but now stories of tens of thousands of pounds inContinue reading &quot;TWO RIP OFF’S&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Doing it for the kids</title>
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<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>LEAH HAS A FRIEND CALLED MARJORIE</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/leah-has-a-friend-called-marjorie</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Leah’s friend Marjorie is also a great letter writer and I feature today a quick selection of her recent output. Sir Last night on Question Time SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black claimed water had not been privatised ‘because of devolution.” I realise that devolution only happened when she was 4 years old but inContinue reading &quot;LEAH HAS A FRIEND CALLED MARJORIE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ruined In A Day</title>
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<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>
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<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>Letter from Denmark..EXILE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Another fine article from Peter Young of IndyScot News in Denmark. Letter from Denmark. Exile. By Peter Young. “The police were here today,” my London landlady said. “They wanted to see you and Liam.” “The police?” “It’s okay. When we told them you were Scottish they said they didn’t need to speak to you.” ItContinue reading &quot;Letter from Denmark..EXILE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>WE MUST DEFEND OUR WATER.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/we-must-defend-our-water</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ SAD FACT I have just learnt that on the day it was privatised Thames Water was debt free. It has now run up £14 billion worth of debt largely through dividends for shareholders and by paying huge bonuses to its executives. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Now You See It</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fun with numbers</title>
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<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>
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<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>Angus faces challenge from Leah on behalf of Salvo/Liberation</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/angus-faces-challenge-from-leah-on-behalf-of-salvoliberation</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/angus-faces-challenge-from-leah-on-behalf-of-salvoliberation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Dear Angus Robertson, I listened to your June 28th speech to the Scottish Parliament during the debate on a Scottish constitution. You seem to misunderstand what popular sovereignty means in Scotland. Popular sovereignty comes from the Scottish Crown, the People, the Community of the Realm and is profoundly different from English social contract sovereignty. The ScottishContinue reading &quot;Angus faces challenge from Leah on behalf of Salvo/Liberation&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Unserious People</title>
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<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>ROUTES TO INDEPENDENCE</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/routes-to-independence</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/routes-to-independence</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ An article from our legal eagle Ewan Kennedy. He wrote this in August 2021. Routes to Independence I am offering this as my contribution to the discussion about how we Scots can advance from the position we find ourselves in, nearly  seven years since the Referendum. What are the routes open to us? Only aContinue reading &quot;ROUTES TO INDEPENDENCE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:00:33 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CHURCH REPLIES, SORT OF, TO LETTER ABOUT CHARLES 111</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/church-replies-sort-of-to-letter-about-charles-111</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/church-replies-sort-of-to-letter-about-charles-111</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Dear Mr Lawson, Thank you for your letter to the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Revd Sally Foster-Fulton.  The Moderator has seen your correspondence and asked me to respond on her behalf. Mrs Foster-Fulton notes your concerns about the Honours of Scotland, but has asked me to clarifyContinue reading &quot;CHURCH REPLIES, SORT OF, TO LETTER ABOUT CHARLES 111&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Popular Sovereignty in Action – the Swiss Example </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Delighted to publish this very informative article by Henry Ferguson. Henry is the latest addition to the Steering Committee of the Scottish National Congress. He is already making a mark with his long life experience and knowledge of how Governments function. This article was originally published in the National. Popular Sovereignty in Action – the Swiss Example  By HenryContinue reading &quot;Popular Sovereignty in Action – the Swiss Example &quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>PARTY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/party-before-independence</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ An article written by regular contributor Bill Clark who hails from Fort William The SNP’s continuity First Minister Humza Yousaf has made a pledge that at next year’s General Election “vote SNP for independence.”  What does he think we have been doing for the past eight years despite any progress being made towards that goal?  The newContinue reading &quot;PARTY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Burning House</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-burning-house</link>
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<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 National Church is challenged over Charles lll</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-national-church-is-challenged-over-charles-lll</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is the letter I sent to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland on the date shown. I had hoped to publish both this letter and any reply but regretfully no answer has thus far been received and I am concerned, given the topic involved, that officialdom may prefer to ignore rather than replyingContinue reading &quot;The National Church is challenged over Charles lll&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:00:03 +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>
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<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>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You are not legally King here!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-are-not-legally-king-here</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The start of what will be regular podcasts from Salvo/ Liberation. Here Leah and myself discuss how the use of the CROWN has been fraudulently used by England to plunder Scotland’s resources. Please watch then share so people across Scotland become more informed on why Charles 111 will never be King of Scots legally. BEATContinue reading &quot;You are not legally King here!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kiss With A Fist</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/kiss-with-a-fist</link>
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<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>
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<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>Salvo, Liberation, SNC Press release.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ PRESS RELEASE Statement from Salvo, Liberation and the Scottish National Congress Steering Committee. Iain Lawson, the chair of the Scottish National Congress Steering Committee and Liberation Scotland stated, “We were delighted to learn of the expert legal opinion obtained by the Alba Party on the legality of the Supreme Court Ruling last November as toContinue reading &quot;Salvo, Liberation, SNC Press release.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Spoiler Alert</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/spoiler-alert</link>
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<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>WHO ARE THE SCOTS?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/who-are-the-scots</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ WHO ARE THE SCOTS? By Lynda and Alf Baird In adequately ‘confronting our history’, which is always distorted by the invader, whoever that happens to be, we perhaps need to probe a little deeper into the archaeological record to get a more accurate picture of ‘wha we are’. That record first tells us that theContinue reading &quot;WHO ARE THE SCOTS?&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CONFRONTING HISTORY</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/confronting-history</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Frances McKIE refutes Dr Young’s article in last week’s Sunday Herald. Dear Sir, Neil Mackay’s article last Sunday presented Dr John Young’s perspective on the (extended) Plantation of Ulster. While asserting that historians have an “obligation to tell the truth” Dr Young did not hesitate to use his personal, extremely selective version of this particularContinue reading &quot;CONFRONTING HISTORY&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Yellow for timewasting</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/yellow-for-timewasting</link>
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>ANOTHER CRACKER FROM LEAH</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Unionists love to argue that Scotland is dependent on England for its survival via the Barnett formula.   But occasionally their mask slips and they make the slam dunk case for Scotland’s independence, as Murdo Fraser did a year ago in an interview with GB News.    “If Scotland leaves the UK, we lose roughly a thirdContinue reading &quot;ANOTHER CRACKER FROM LEAH&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals</title>
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<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>THREE EXCELLENT LETTERS FROM LEAH</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dear Editor, The UK corporate media’s gaslighting of Scotland underscores our colonial status within this supposedly united kingdom. There is no Scottish-owned media outlet which explains the uniformly anti-Scottish and pro-unionist coverage to which Scots are subjected daily.  The powerful right-wing tax-allergic corporate owners are happy to subsidise failing media businesses because they can buyContinue reading &quot;THREE EXCELLENT LETTERS FROM LEAH&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:00:04 +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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>LETTER FROM DENMARK CONSTITUTIOUNE.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letter-from-denmark-constitutioune</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letter-from-denmark-constitutioune</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Another article from popular correspondent Peter Young of IndyScotnews in Denmark. You Say You Want a Constitution?  The Fifth of June is a bank holiday in Denmark. It’s also one of those many ‘flag days’ when the buses have two small ‘Dannebrog’ on them. If you have a flagpole in your garden, and a remarkable number of Danes do, you’re expected toContinue reading &quot;LETTER FROM DENMARK CONSTITUTIOUNE.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Developing a complex</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/developing-a-complex</link>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>The 79th Anniversary of D Day.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-79th-anniversary-of-d-day</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday was the 79th Anniversary of D DAY. I was born less than ten years after this crucial event. I went to school in Clydebank, a town that was flattened by the Luftwaffe in March 1941. I remember many years later going to school through the bombed out tenements that were still visible, along withContinue reading &quot;The 79th Anniversary of D Day.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:00:03 +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>UPDATE ON THE OBAN HEARING.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/update-on-the-oban-hearing</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/update-on-the-oban-hearing</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The SLAPP case brought by fish farm giant MOWI against the lone activist Don Staniford has been recognised by the international organisation CASE Europe and their latest report can be accessed here:  Iain asked me for a report on the legal debate in the case, as he knew I would be watching the proceedings inContinue reading &quot;UPDATE ON THE OBAN HEARING.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:00:04 +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>
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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>PEASANTS IN OUR OWN LAND?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/peasants-in-our-own-land</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/peasants-in-our-own-land</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A guest comment from Willie Hutchison highlighting how our colonial status impacts our country in sector after sector. Farmed Salmon is only a small part of the wholesale rape of Scotland’s assets The £2 billion industry marketed around the world as Scottish is virtually all owned by investors in Norway, Switzerland, Cyprus, Canada and otherContinue reading &quot;PEASANTS IN OUR OWN LAND?&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:00:04 +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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-cod-father</guid>
<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>Faroese Friends</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/faroese-friends</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/faroese-friends</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A particularly powerful article contrasting the status of the 54,000 population of the Faroe Islands with the 5.5 million Scots. It throws up multiple embarrassments that we need to learn from and sort out. Faroese Friends We were in the staff room when I suddenly realised I hadn’t a clue what was being said acrossContinue reading &quot;Faroese Friends&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The conscious uncoupling</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-conscious-uncoupling</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>BREEKS VIEWS ON FARMED SALMON.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/breeks-views-on-farmed-salmon</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Fish farming seems to me the archetypal British business in Scotland; capitalising on Scotland’s hard won reputation for having a high quality salmon, but utterly trashing that reputation on the way to short term profits, followed by ever diminishing returns, as people realise the salmon on their menu is the equivalent of a battery henContinue reading &quot;BREEKS VIEWS ON FARMED SALMON.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>WANT TO KNOW THE PLAN?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/want-to-know-the-plan</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/want-to-know-the-plan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scotland’s Liberation Movement Aims and Objectives of Salvo and the Scottish National Congress of Liberation Scotland The aim of Liberation Scotland is to restore the political sovereignty of the people of Scotland, remove the British state’s ‘administrative’ control of the assets owned by the Scottish people and obtain for our nation the restitution owed by the British state for its fraudulent appropriation of Scotland’s natural resources overContinue reading &quot;WANT TO KNOW THE PLAN?&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Battered Can</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-battered-can</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-battered-can</guid>
<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>LIBERATION DIRECT DEMOCRACY..THE PREMIERE!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/liberation-direct-democracythe-premiere</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Since the inception of Salvo and Liberation we have been plagued with opponents saying how could the people be sovereign in the 21st Century? They said it can’t be done, the “best” that can be done is for the people to handover all that power to the elected politicians. Well I have news for you,Continue reading &quot;LIBERATION DIRECT DEMOCRACY..THE PREMIERE!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Scotland is getting SLAPPed!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-is-getting-slapped</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-is-getting-slapped</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ An important article from my legal friend Ewan Kennedy, now retired and living in Argyll. Scotland is getting SLAPPed! At the end of last year Iain was kind enough to publish my introduction to the curious world of SLAPPs, “Strategic Litigations Against Public Participation” and my article can be accessed here: As discussed in moreContinue reading &quot;Scotland is getting SLAPPed!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 10:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Salvo Launch for West of Scotland Euro Area.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/salvo-launch-for-west-of-scotland-euro-area</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/salvo-launch-for-west-of-scotland-euro-area</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Please feel welcome to join Salvo/ Liberation. These meetings and new hubs are being set up across the country. Change of meeting agenda You are invited to an informal members meeting which will be held on 26th of May in the Walkinshaw Community Centre, 11 Walkinshaw Street, Johnstone, PA5 8AF (entrance opposite the Post Office) at 7.00pm.Jim Fairlie will beContinue reading &quot;Salvo Launch for West of Scotland Euro Area.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 17:00:57 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>The Infinite Idiot</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-infinite-idiot</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-infinite-idiot</guid>
<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>IMPORTANT INFORMATION.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/important-information</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/important-information</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ This post is for Subscriber Type your email… Subscribe ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>YOU ARE NOT KIDDING ANYONE ANY MORE!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-are-not-kidding-anyone-any-more</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ You are not kidding anyone any more! The latest announcement from the SNP has been met with a shrug of resignation throughout the entire YES MOVEMENT as the realisation that this is just the latest appearance of another scabby carrot as this “ convention” is more likely to bury the fight for Independence rather thanContinue reading &quot;YOU ARE NOT KIDDING ANYONE ANY MORE!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 01:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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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>NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 01:00:09 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Someone tell us the rules</title>
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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>NOTHING IN THE NATURE OF A SECOND CORONATION.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/nothing-in-the-nature-of-a-second-coronation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A very interesting article from well known journalist Dr. David Torrance. It was originally published by the UK CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION ON THE 16th May 2023. David Torrance: “Nothing in the Nature of a Second Coronation” On 23 April 2023 the Sunday Telegraph carried a striking headline: “Scotland to host its own Coronation for the King with StoneContinue reading &quot;NOTHING IN THE NATURE OF A SECOND CORONATION.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Battle Of The Rejects</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/battle-of-the-rejects</link>
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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>LEAH’S LETTER OF THE WEEK.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dear Editor, Sir Keir has flip flopped on renationalising energy, first pledging to do so, then not, and now vowing to create a public company, GB Energy, powered with Scottish renewables. And Ian Murray, his faithful Scottish minion, claims Scotland will prosper under a Labour government.  It’s the same old story. The UK feasts vampiricallyContinue reading &quot;LEAH’S LETTER OF THE WEEK.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 20:00:02 +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>
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<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>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>BUILD THE DEFENCE, THEN ATTACK!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A guest comment from regular contributor Breeks. I think the problem in Scotland isn’t acceptance of sovereignty, our detractors will always find something to gripe about, but the mechanism through which we can empower ourselves. The Constitutional arguments in my opinion are adequately persuasive and robust, the provenance is very well documented, and Scotland’s statusContinue reading &quot;BUILD THE DEFENCE, THEN ATTACK!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>BEADS AND MIRRORS</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/beads-and-mirrors</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A comment by regular Willie Hutchison. Willie has a Civil Engineering background was a chartered engineering surveyor involved predominately in the delivery of major infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, power generation and transmission.   Quite quite astounding to look back at what Scotland has been at the forefront of over the years. Sadly that hasContinue reading &quot;BEADS AND MIRRORS&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 15:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Letter from Denmark: Procession for the Crown</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letter-from-denmark-procession-for-the-crown</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Another delightful article from regular correspondent Peter Young of IndyScot News which is based in Denmark. A very talented writer. Letter from Denmark: Procession for the Crown There’s a sea of flame gathering in the twilight. It started with only one torch, but each newly lit passes the flame to two or three others. SoonContinue reading &quot;Letter from Denmark: Procession for the Crown&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SOME MYTHS DESTROYED</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ SOME MYTHS DESTROYED It also amazes me how some people are all too ready to dismiss potential solutions to very serious problems by giving too much credibility to the “knockers” in politics. They exist in all countries, indeed they are a serious and deliberate component of political life across the World. It’s just here inContinue reading &quot;SOME MYTHS DESTROYED&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2023 12:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SORRY CHARLES..ITS A BUMMER!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sorry-charlesits-a-bummer</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Sara Salyers May 2023 In the December, 1984 issue of the ‘Scots Magazine’, an article appeared entitled ‘Where is the Real Stone’. It electrified nationalists across Scotland. The author was Archie, ‘A C’, McKerracher, FSA whose 2001 obituary in the Herald described him as a, “Scot – author, historian, writer, storyteller, and legend investigator, known to an enormous audience at homeContinue reading &quot;SORRY CHARLES..ITS A BUMMER!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 08:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A shameful move that aids us no end….thanks</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-shameful-move-that-aids-us-no-endthanks</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A shameful move that aids us no end….thanks I am sure when James Cleverly issued his instructions worldwide that no meetings involving Scottish Ministers should happen without a senior member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office being present he thought he was striking a blow in defending the Union. The bottom line was it wasContinue reading &quot;A shameful move that aids us no end….thanks&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Quid Pro Nihilo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/quid-pro-nihilo</link>
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<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>How the Union has robbed the Scottish people. </title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-the-union-has-robbed-the-scottish-people</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This week Leah Gunn Barrett was speaking at the opening of the new Salvo hub in Edinburgh, what follows is much of the content of her speech. Since the 1707 Treaty of Union, Scotland’s wealth has been stolen and exploited by our larger “partner” in an ongoing act of colonisation.  Colonialism is economic exploitation by a dominant power that exercises political control over itsContinue reading &quot;How the Union has robbed the Scottish people. &quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Hole Story</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>HAS THE SNP GONE MAD?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ HAS THE SNP GONE MAD? There can surely be no debate that the SNP are in trouble, serious trouble. They need to improve the level of competency in Government, avoid controversy and above all not gift to the Unionist media and opposition new policies that will allow them to rerun all the previous mistakes thatContinue reading &quot;HAS THE SNP GONE MAD?&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>HOW MUCH TROUBLE ARE THE SNP IN UP IN SCOTLAND</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-much-trouble-are-the-snp-in-up-in-scotland</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ I took part in this programme and thought it a decent discussion. I particularly enjoyed shooting down Sir John Curtice’s view that Labour would benefit, not easy given the mess the SNP are making of things currently. BEAT THE CENSORS Regretfully there are some among us who seek to censor what others read. Sadly withinContinue reading &quot;HOW MUCH TROUBLE ARE THE SNP IN UP IN SCOTLAND&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Officially Missing You</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/officially-missing-you</link>
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<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>
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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>HERALD  THIS COMMENT</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/herald-this-comment</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Scotland. The only country in the world incapable of controlling our own finances, according to London. The country that gave the world Adam Smith, the Father of Economics, yet can’t run its own economy. The country that gave the world sociology, ecology, field intelligence, aircraft design, universal standard time, first textbook on surgery, logarithms, hypnotism,Continue reading &quot;HERALD  THIS COMMENT&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Vulnerability Olympics</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-vulnerability-olympics</link>
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<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>Cannonballs, Kingdoms and Unions</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cannonballs-kingdoms-and-unions</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ ‘Raadmand Davids Hus’ is one of the oldest and best conserved houses in Helsingoør. It was built by David Mellvin, a second-generation Scottish exile in 1694. He was a high-standing member of the city administration. Today his house is a cosy lunch cafe — and I’m here with my own second generation Scottish exile. It’sContinue reading &quot;Cannonballs, Kingdoms and Unions&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The perfection of the moment</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-perfection-of-the-moment</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-perfection-of-the-moment</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/big-sister-isnt-watching</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>LETTERS OF THE WEEK</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letters-of-the-week</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/letters-of-the-week</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Two great letters from Leah Gunn Barrett, one of my colleagues on the Scottish National Congress Steering Group. Dear Editor, Scottish politicians talk endlessly about eradicating poverty (April 18, Scots living in very deep poverty), but don’t acknowledge the root cause – that Scotland’s wealth is controlled by Westminster. Take North Sea Oil, 90% ofContinue reading &quot;LETTERS OF THE WEEK&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Something to hide</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/something-to-hide</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/something-to-hide</guid>
<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>This is truly excellent…from Liberation.Scot.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/this-is-truly-excellentfrom-liberationscot</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/this-is-truly-excellentfrom-liberationscot</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A short video with a powerful message. I hope you enjoyed that, I did, particularly as I knew nothing about it. It was a very good example of Liberation members taking the ball and running with it purposely towards goal. You get that with a genuine People’s Movement. We saw it in 2014 and weContinue reading &quot;This is truly excellent…from Liberation.Scot.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>“The Declaration of a Sovereign Scot” initiative</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-declaration-of-a-sovereign-scot-initiative</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-declaration-of-a-sovereign-scot-initiative</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A statement from Mike Fenwick. I post this as part of my ongoing commitment to supporting all possible routes to Independence. “The Declaration of a Sovereign Scot” initiative … Post 3 of 3. This is the last post in this series and the most important. If, like me, you are wholly committed to playing yourContinue reading &quot;“The Declaration of a Sovereign Scot” initiative&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>STRANGE BEHAVIOUR</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/strange-behaviour</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/strange-behaviour</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is so much I could write about the behaviour and choices of the new First Minister but I just want to write a few lines which in my view highlight the abysmal lack of commitment by Scottish politicians to the fight for Scottish Independence. Across the country many hundreds of thousands support Independence. TheyContinue reading &quot;STRANGE BEHAVIOUR&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Putting our foot in it</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/putting-our-foot-in-it</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/putting-our-foot-in-it</guid>
<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>What caused the SNP CRISIS? The removal of accountability throughout the entire Party!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-caused-the-snp-crisis-the-removal-of-accountability-throughout-the-entire-party</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/what-caused-the-snp-crisis-the-removal-of-accountability-throughout-the-entire-party</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What caused the SNP CRISIS? The removal of accountability throughout the entire Party! Yes this was always going to happen. It was obvious to anyone with a background in politics and business. Now this is not being clever after the event I have been forecasting the SNP were cruising for a bruising for some years.Continue reading &quot;What caused the SNP CRISIS? The removal of accountability throughout the entire Party!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>And so far yet to go</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-so-far-yet-to-go</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/and-so-far-yet-to-go</guid>
<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>UNDERSTANDING THE JUDICIAL REVIEW PROCESS</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/understanding-the-judicial-review-process</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/understanding-the-judicial-review-process</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Our resident legal eagle Ewan Kennedy has helpfully put together an explanation of how the process works. Thanks to Humza’s decision to commit significant Scottish taxpayers resources to this it is worth understanding the process and likely timescale. I think it may be helpful for me to offer a brief explanation of the system ofContinue reading &quot;UNDERSTANDING THE JUDICIAL REVIEW PROCESS&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>At close of day</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/at-close-of-day</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/at-close-of-day</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fashion-and-crisis-hits-new-york</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-unforeseen-emergency</guid>
<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>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/clearing-the-bar</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/clearing-the-bar</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SARA’S ON THE MARCH!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/saras-on-the-march</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/saras-on-the-march</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On the international spectacle of Scotland’s Kidnapping, plunder and not merely forced, but fake marriage, (or union) Sara Salyers Gaslighting. Force your victim to swallow the opposite of the truth, then teach your victim to parrot the opposite and to do so while the truth stands, naked, in plain sight. Once you can do that,Continue reading &quot;SARA’S ON THE MARCH!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>ALBA CONDEMN GREENS</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-condemn-greens</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-condemn-greens</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For immediate release: Friday 14 April 2023 ALBA CONDEMN GREEN MSPs CALL FOR RAPIST ISLA BRYSON TO BE RECOGNISED AS A WOMAN ALBA Party Westminster Group Leader Neale Hanvey MP has launched an attack on the Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman for her statement that convicted rapist “Isla Bryson is a trans woman” and should be entitledContinue reading &quot;ALBA CONDEMN GREENS&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>Progress to nowhere</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/progress-to-nowhere</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/progress-to-nowhere</guid>
<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>HOW CAN WE TRUST YOU</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-can-we-trust-you</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/how-can-we-trust-you</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I was sent this letter from Iain Bruce who lives in Nairn. It was sent to both his local MP and MSP. Dear Messrs. Hendry and Ewing The forensic tents have now been dismantled from Mr and Mrs Murrell’s front garden but unfortunately ‘out of sight out of mind’ doesn’t work in the sphere ofContinue reading &quot;HOW CAN WE TRUST YOU&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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<title>When you’re already gone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-youre-already-gone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/when-youre-already-gone</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/also-humza-yousaf</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/standing-on-quicksand</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/from-the-mouths-of-idiots</guid>
<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>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/that-sinking-feeling</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>THE SNP NEED TO BURY UNITY TO SURVIVE.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-snp-need-to-bury-unity-to-survive</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-snp-need-to-bury-unity-to-survive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ THE SNP NEED TO BURY UNITY TO SURVIVE. The SNP are on the wrong road. They have been on it for years. There has been only one driver and she was working with no map, no direction, no plan, secret or otherwise. Now she has retired. It could be called forced retirement as she knewContinue reading &quot;THE SNP NEED TO BURY UNITY TO SURVIVE.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yours for Scotland</dc:creator>
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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>A Liberation/Salvo Special Broadcast</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-liberationsalvo-special-broadcast</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ POVERTY AND PLUNDER IN SCOTLAND A truly explosive explanation of the shocking exploitation of Scotland and how the elected politicians of Scotland over many generations have become the colonial administration enabling Scotland’s assets to be plundered in front of our eyes. BEAT THE CENSORS Regretfully there are some among us who seek to censor whatContinue reading &quot;A Liberation/Salvo Special Broadcast&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ A guest article from Bill Clark who lives in Fort William. All political parties centralise their power but elected highland SNP MPs and MSPs could and should have helped to increase the highland power base by encouraging members to vote for Kate Forbes, a local MSP, to be SNP leader and Scotland’s First Minister.   After all,Continue reading &quot;A HIGHLAND VIEW&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inside The Cult</title>
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<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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<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>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Minority Report</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>ITS TIME FOR A HOLIDAY!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I have been running the Yours for Scotland blog pretty much full time for three years with very few days off. I have felt for a while now I need to take a break and recharge my batteries. It’s not easy to do. I am involved in so much of what is happening across ScotlandContinue reading &quot;ITS TIME FOR A HOLIDAY!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The beginning of the end</title>
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<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>
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<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>HEALTHY DEMOGRAPHICS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ HEALTHY DEMOGRAPHICS By  Sally Hughes Scotland’s National Health Service was created in 1946, at the same time as the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  They are all separate entities, fully funded by the taxpayers in the host nation. They came into being on the back of 2 World Wars, and a Flu Epidemic, thatContinue reading &quot;HEALTHY DEMOGRAPHICS&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:00:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Smell Of It</title>
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<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>PARANOIA AND VANITY:THE STURGEON YEARS</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/paranoia-and-vanitythe-sturgeon-years</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This article first appeared on RobinMcAlpine.org on the 22nd March 2023. I was going to write an article along similar lines but Robin’s article is very good and I have got a bag to pack for my holidays which start tomorrow! I thought this article was just right to mark Nicola Sturgeon’s last day asContinue reading &quot;PARANOIA AND VANITY:THE STURGEON YEARS&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 08:00:02 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Empty Space</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>BREEKS ARGUES SALVO IS THE WAY AHEAD.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/breeks-argues-salvo-is-the-way-ahead</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ An excellent commentary from regular contributor Breeks. For as long as I can remember, I have known that Scotland was sovereign, but it was a notion to hold on to. I now have a much firmer grasp that it isn’t merely a notion, but something real and terrestial. Something, a principle, which the Union EstablishmentContinue reading &quot;BREEKS ARGUES SALVO IS THE WAY AHEAD.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Humza’s Sneaky Peek</title>
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<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>SCOTLAND’S CHOICE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What follows is a programme put together by TRT World the Turkish Public Service Broadcaster about the SNP LEADERSHIP RACE. It will be shown all over the World it’s a bit like the BBC WORLD SERVICE and as the presenter explained to me at the beginning of the programme, the introduction at the beginning withContinue reading &quot;SCOTLAND’S CHOICE&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ANOTHER MAJOR LIE REVEALED</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/another-major-lie-revealed</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In Right of the Crown? Sara Salyers In 2022, while ‘the nation(s) mourned’ the death of Queen Elizabeth, officially anyway, Scotland had another reason for mourning. Along with the mortal remains of Elizabeth Windsor, the dazzling but entirely English royal pageant, representing an ancient but entirely English, constitutional monarchy, effectively buried the Crown of Scotland.  “This is your heritage and history!” The spectacle proclaimed. “Behold its glory, its continuity and its power!” AndContinue reading &quot;ANOTHER MAJOR LIE REVEALED&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>FULL DISCLOSURE IS NEEDED.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/full-disclosure-is-needed</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A statement from Ewan Kennedy on the need for full disclosure on the Salmond plot. Ewan is a retired lawyer who lives in Argyll and is a frequent correspondent on Yours for Scotland. Three years ago this week there ended a show trial of the sort we used to rightly deride when we saw itContinue reading &quot;FULL DISCLOSURE IS NEEDED.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Spinning the wheel</title>
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<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>You thought it could not get worse? It just did!</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/you-thought-it-could-not-get-worse-it-just-did</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ You thought it could not get worse? It just did! The SNP today is a pale shadow of the SNP after the 2015 General Election. Then a United Party and Yes Movement enjoyed all the momentum and a determined electorate anxious to sort out the disappointment of the 2014 Referendum. The result was 56 outContinue reading &quot;You thought it could not get worse? It just did!&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Fantasy Island</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/fantasy-island</link>
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<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>AS THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT POUR MILLIONS MORE INTO BUILDING THE WRONG FERRIES.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/as-the-scottish-government-pour-millions-more-into-building-the-wrong-ferries</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ SUBMISSION TO NET ZERO, ENERGY &amp; TRANSPORT COMMITTEE From Professor Alf Baird, 20th March 2023 SYNOPSIS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ‘CATAMARANS FOR INTER-ISLAND NAVIGATION’ SEMINAR Held at Strathclyde University, 12 May 2022 The presentation summarized Dr. Ballantyne’s design and evolution of catamaran ferries since the 1980s to today. This included the development and testing ofContinue reading &quot;AS THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT POUR MILLIONS MORE INTO BUILDING THE WRONG FERRIES.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Final Insult</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-final-insult</link>
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<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>SPECIAL REPORT</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/special-report</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ An excellent production from Lukewarm Dave sets the scene for more, much more to follow. MY COMMENTS It’s great to see this being produced. This is how to deal with injustice. Don’t let it go, be persistent, never forget. This is how you get justice and provide the evidence that corrupt behaviour never pays inContinue reading &quot;SPECIAL REPORT&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>TAK TENT</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/tak-tent</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ TAK TENT By Sally Hughes Like a great many folk in Scotland just now, the recent drama’s surrounding Nicola Sturgeon, her husband Peter, and the Leadership Contest for First Minister, have caught my attention, like the worst soap opera ever. If I may however, I’d like to wind the clock back a week or so,Continue reading &quot;TAK TENT&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Casting Vote</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-casting-vote</link>
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<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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<description><![CDATA[ TAC TENT By Sally Hughes Like a great many folk in Scotland just now, the recent drama’s surrounding Nicola Sturgeon, her husband Peter, and the Leadership Contest for First Minister, have caught my attention, like the worst soap opera ever. If I may however, I’d like to wind the clock back a week or so,Continue reading &quot;TAC TENT&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cleaning the stables</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/cleaning-the-stables</link>
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<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>
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<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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<title>Quiet Times For Scotland</title>
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<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>Letter from Denmark: The Dubliner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is another excellent contribution from Peter Young of IndyScot News who writes with such obvious concern about Scotland. He clearly thinks we should learn from both Ireland and Denmark. I agree. Enjoy! Letter from Denmark: The Dubliner “Hey, it’s Gus here, you called?” The voice is unmistakably Scottish. “Aye, we’re showing the game by theContinue reading &quot;Letter from Denmark: The Dubliner&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>If you find that you just can’t trust them</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The decline and fall</title>
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<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>Much of UK law may be fraudulent</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A guest post by Xaracen, who is a regular reader and occasional contributor to this site. He is a retired IT engineer and Manager. . Decisions made by England’s MPs cannot be considered UK decisions unless and until Scotland’s MPs agree them, and Westminster has no business pretending otherwise. Because the Union is a binaryContinue reading &quot;Much of UK law may be fraudulent&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The truth will come out</title>
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<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>THE SEVEN LIES</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A excellent discussion between Sara Salyers and fellow Salvo member Leah Gunn Barrett discussing some of the key lies Westminster spins and how they impact on Scotland. Well worth a watch. MY COMMENT I think this format is very effective and educational, much easier to appreciate and enjoy than listening to a lecture. I am,Continue reading &quot;THE SEVEN LIES&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Rogue Trooper</title>
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<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>HERE IS THE REPLY TO STEVE’S LETTER TO THE ICJ AND WHAT IT MEANS.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What follows is the reply received from the International Court of Justice in reply to Steve Norris’s letter seeking guidance on how Scotland could seek a judgement from the Court. Initially the reply might seem negative but take the time to read the explanation Sara Salyers of Salvo/ Liberation has added which confirms that theContinue reading &quot;HERE IS THE REPLY TO STEVE’S LETTER TO THE ICJ AND WHAT IT MEANS.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>There Are No Rules</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>Steve Norris letter to the ICJ over the Supreme Court Ruling.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/steve-norris-letter-to-the-icj-over-the-supreme-court-ruling</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is the letter Steve Norris sent to the International Court of Justice seeking information on how Scotland could challenge the ruling from the Supreme Court in England. Tomorrow I will publish the response he received from the ICJ. I am a senior Scottish journalist investigating possible legal and political steps open to Scotland following the NovemberContinue reading &quot;Steve Norris letter to the ICJ over the Supreme Court Ruling.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Steven Norris letter to the ICJ over the Supreme Court Ruling.</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/steven-norris-letter-to-the-icj-over-the-supreme-court-ruling</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is the letter Steve Norris sent to the International Court of Justice seeking information on how Scotland could challenge the ruling from the Supreme Court in England. Tomorrow I will publish the response he received from the ICJ. I am a senior Scottish journalist investigating possible legal and political steps open to Scotland following the NovemberContinue reading &quot;Steven Norris letter to the ICJ over the Supreme Court Ruling.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Roger Mullin Speaks Out.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I have reproduced this from the National. He has been a personal friend and colleague for many decades. He is a man of the utmost decency, honesty and worth. I, and I hope you will be interested in how he determined his vote in this election. HAVING just cast my vote to elect the seventhContinue reading &quot;Roger Mullin Speaks Out.&quot; ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Wrong Answer</title>
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<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>HUMZA’S REMARKABLY UNENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A guest post from Gordon Millar. HUMZA’S REMARKABLY UNENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS From the first minute of Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation speech, her departure and the election of her successor have been covered by a cloak of dishonesty. For example, while people certainly do resign because of burn out, they don’t normally do it via a midweek emergencyContinue reading &quot;HUMZA’S REMARKABLY UNENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS&quot; ]]></description>
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