BBC Scotland’s top brass in a Holyrood committee room in March 2014, above, to explain why they had reported an academic to his employer because of his research showing they had been objectively and quantitatively biased against the Yes side.

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The man they had reported, the only academic they had ever reported to his employer, Professor John Robertson, Faculty Research Ethics Chair of the University of the West of Scotland, had spoken to the committee just before.

They had been together on the train that morning, they in 1st Class, he in 2nd, before travelling from the station to Holyrood, they by taxi, he by foot and via two hostelries to first audit their whisky collections.

You can read about the events at: https://www.medialens.org/2014/scotlandshire-bbc-scotland-coverage-of-the-independence-referendum/and watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cZ04MeEAw&t=2407s

The Rev Stu of Wings, very big at the time, liked me then it seemed. See: https://wingsoverscotland.com/personalising-the-debate/

It wasn’t to last, when one of us became a wee huffyboots, after Nicola ignored us.

Today, imagine my shock when BBC Scotland post an extended piece on the Russian presence in Scottish media at that time.

I was on three times, spookily 😉 from one of the wee studios in BBC Scotland’s HQ in Pacific Quay, where you could speak to other stations online, before you could do it with professional quality from your house. They’d reported me to my boss, gone to Holyrood to attack me further and, forever after, every day, I’d slagged them rotten, yet, I’m no in this 1 500 word essay by Craig Williams who looks like he was still at school in 2014.

The do mention other keyboard warriors of the time:

The Scotland in which Sputnik landed in 2016 was going through a turbulent time. In the wake of the 2014 independence referendum, a wave of new media enterprises were making the case for independence. Established online outlets Wings over Scotland and Bella Caledonia were joined by digital news platforms CommonSpace and Broadcasting Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyplgpjepno

FFS, Wings had more followers than any, but I feel sure Talking-up Scotland, no offence to the others, was and is bigger.

Why are we no in this?!

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