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The inclusion of two long term haters of all things SNP, Brian Wilson & Susan Dalgetty, in their newspaper speaks volumes as to their agenda as a newspaper.
Both of these columnists have former political links connected to the Labour party and so their inclusion, as columnists in The Scotsman, is so very obvious as they often contribute what is expected by this newspaper .
Which as contributions mostly consists of both of them highlighting how terrible Scotland is and also how it’s all the SNP’s fault.
Does any reader of their newspaper ,who is aware of both Wilson’s & Dalgetty’s political links to the Labour party, then think as readers, that their opinions as columnists are without any bias, are totally non partisan and thus ultimately not driven by a desire to see the SNP lose more seats in both Holyrood and WM, see the SNP ousted as the Scottish government and be replaced by the Labour party and also both are desperate to try and stop independence for Scotland ever happening.
If you ever (have the misfortune to) read a succession of Brian Wilson columns in The Scotsman you would be tempted to think that he should consider ‘Changing the record’. His anti SNP obsession sees him constantly target the SNP who he insists are, as a government, those totally responsible for all of the ills that he states exist in Scotland. So that is a common theme that often dominates most of the columns he writes in The Scotsman. Big Yawn.
The fact that Scotland is not an independent country is ,for for both of these columnists , not worthy as a crucial fact for either of them mentioning or emphasising in their many written critiques of our government and our country.
Therefore the fact that the SNP, as a government , do not have all powers and monies to run Scotland as an independent country , well that hugely significant factor is conveniently and deliberately ignored in both Wilson’s (and Dalgetty’s) columns.
As that would then totally destroy most of their arguments that they try (and fail) to make against both the SNP and also against Scotland as a country, where as a country, we are crippled and severely limited by us being a part of their UK. (something else both of them choose to ignore).
The same UK that is controlled by a UK government who restricts, imposes and prevents so much good and positive being done by our Scottish government and also while they , as a UK government, steal the resources sourced from our country that as resources, would be more than sufficient to sustain our country, Scotland, as a thriving independent country in the World.
Dalgetty left the Labour party as a member because of Jeremy Corbyn , then upon him being ousted as their leader , she then re-joined them so that she could “be in time to vote for Starmer as the new leader” (her own words in an open letter she wrote to Keir Starmer in 2021) she did this even though she is opposed to Keir Starmer’s position on what she sees as her campaigning for “Women’s sex based rights”.
In that open letter in 2021 that she wrote to Keir Starmer where she also stated that “she was not ready to give up her membership (of the Labour party) again” but apparently she was still passionate about continuing the fight for women under the campaign “Wheesht for women” which she accused him of not supporting via his, and the Labour party’s , position on this.
So proving then that her strong passion for this cause on women’s rights does not extend to her ‘giving up her Labour party membership’ which surely would send more of a strong message to Starmer than just her writing an ‘open’ letter to him in 2021 stating how disappointed she was in him.
Wilson and Dalgetty adopting Labour in Scotland’s constant position of PARTY before COUNTRY (as in Scotland )
Or in Dalgetty’s case we also have PARTY before PRINCIPLES.
As to The Scotsman well they will welcome anyone as a columnist in their newspaper who is prepared to adopt the same type of anti SNP and anti independence position as some of their current columnists like say Wilson and Dalgetty.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
There are no words. Hasbeens the journalists and the paper. The Scotsman is finished. Edited for the south. Massive unstructured debt. Just a matter of time.
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I am struggling to remember anything positive that Brian Wilson ever did as a politician to counter his obvious bile of anything Scottish.
As for Brian Wilson being a columnist / journalist for the Scotsman! Aye, that will certainly help along the demise of the Scotsman!
I don’t really know anything about Susan Dalgetty. She sounds like a real charmer.
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I much prefer the title, ‘The Hootsmon’, awarded to it by a journalist with a sense of humour.
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This shows utter desperation from that rag mag . It’s had falling sales year on year and they go out and hire two Labour sympathisers to try and push sales up. Another expensive mistake that will do nothing but feed the propaganda they already feed the few that still read it.
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The fact is that The Scotsman is part of a media monopoly within the UK that is sympathetic to and supportive of Scotland remaining within the UK and so they, like others within the UK media, are then openly resistant to both independence and also to political parties , like the SNP , who support it. This is then reflected in who they choose as columnists in their newspaper and also to much of the kind of content within their newspaper.
This then impacts the SNP as we see much of the mainstream media coordinate their political attacks against the SNP so obviously those members of the public , who are not politically engaged , are then confronted with a succession of negativity about the SNP as a party and as the current Scottish government. (As they, as members of the public were also confronted in 2014 by a succession of negativity about independence from that same mainstream media).
As we see , hear and read the Tory supporting media in England challenging the Labour party in England you will see that in Scotland their negative attention will mostly be directed towards the SNP as opposed to the Labour party, for now that is, until the worst case scenario happens and God forbid Labour wins in Holyrood in 2026.Then they, that same Tory friendly media, will refocus their attention towards the Labour party as the new Scottish government.
People in Scotland need to stop believing what they read in the papers.
They need to realise what is behind such negativity that the press direct at the SNP.
They also need to wonder why they , as the public in Scotland, are not confronted daily with any similar successive negative news in the Scottish media that relates to the Labour party, Lib Dems or the Tory party when they hear negative news, via the UK (English) media , about these three political parties who are supportive of the UK as a state.
It does seem as if some people’s voting patterns are based upon unreliable sources, such as the UK MSM, who , as a UK MSM, have a vested interest in promoting those parties supportive of the UK while simultanously it suits them, the media, to also attack those parties supportive of Scottish independence such as the SNP.
If newspapers , like The Scotsman, are tanking in sales in Scotland then they only have themselves to blame. As that is what happens when you constantly promote and support a lost cause , as in the UK as a state, it would also perhaps be better that they consider changing their newspaper name. As which “Scotsman” do they pretend to represent in the news they present as a paper. I think they need to alter their name to a more ‘British’ sounding title which then would accurately reflect who they were as a media outlet and also reflect the content of their newspaper and it’s pro British constitutional position.
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Warning ! Sexist comment upcoming .
Susan Dalgety has the look of a wife whom you wouldn’t , as her husband , want to bring home a broken paypacket to – whereas Mr Wilson looks just like said husband !
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Faces only their mothers could love. Sour.
The ‘Scotsman’ – a misnomer if ever there was one – on its way out.
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‘The ‘Scotsman’ – a misnomer if ever there was one’
This is a newspaper that for some reason has long propounded positions antithetical to legitimate concerns and progressive movements in Scottish communities. The following historical example concerns the period of the so-called ‘Crofters’ War’, the protests against landlordism and the campaigning for land reform in the Highlands and Islands.
Source: Hanham, H.J. (1969) The Problem of Highland Discontent, 1880-1885. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 19, pp. 21-65
‘From the first the press recognized that events in the Highlands
were news in a way in which events in Ireland were not. The
Highlander had long been a sort of romantic folk hero, and though
The Scotsman was bitterly hostile to the crofters’ cause, Liberals generally, and many Tories, felt towards the crofters a sympathy which they did not feel towards the Irish.’
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