He took us from nowhere, by force of will, political acumen and sheer courage, to the edge of freedom. His principled stand against the UK establishment’s war agenda in the form of the Blair regime, the frankly awful human being that is Alistair Campbell and the security services, brought upon him their revenge in the form of a brutal legal process based on minor alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour against a few women. His repeated mediated humiliation by the likes of that other awful human being, Kirsty Wark, shocks in the light of her colleagues long neglect of the Jimmy Saville case, that … Continue reading What this man and this woman have wrought Together can be improved upon

By Alasdair Galloway, the Thinking Mans’s Galloway Earlier today, Wings triumphantly posted extracts of a piece in his newspaper, the London Evening Standard, by George Osborne, basically saying that the only “legal way to independence” is through a referendum, voted by the House of Commons, and since, for now at least, the best way not to lose this is not to approve one. Simple really. Or maybe its not. First of all, I suspect the dogs in the street know already that when the Section 30 question is put to Johnson, assuming the SNP win a majority in the assumed … Continue reading The Thinking-Man’s Galloway: ‘If only it were so simple’

A Panelbase poll funded and scripted by Wings over Scotland suggest that 68% of Scots think that Nicola Sturgeon should resign if it is found that she lied to Parliament. My quick twitterpoll is not intended to be taken as reliable evidence, especially given its self-selecting sample method akin to that favoured by the BMA, but in a sample of 1 250 from 5 200 following Talking-up Scotland, the lack of trust in the results of the Wings poll does seem interesting, perhaps surprising. Like the four Survation polls for Scotland in Union, showing support for staying in the UK, … Continue reading Do only 3 in 10 believe poll suggesting 7 in 10 believe First Minister should resign?

I DO BELIEVE that the Scottish Government has been infected, penetrated, by a few individuals, more loyal to the UK and probably placed there by forces such as MI5 and the Civil Service heads. That would be a normal thing for them to do, given their task of protecting the UK. I DO BELIEVE they have done some damage, abetted by the police and the judiciary. The attacks on Salmond, Murray and Campbell, are evidence. I DO BELIEVE that the First Minister, in the maelstrom of her professional life and perhaps too driven by her understandable commitment to women’s rights … Continue reading Infected but still strong enough to cross the line into a place where ‘a better nation’ can be formed

I thought the SNP agenda was supposed to be against the Rangers? You know like this: What’s happened? Has anything happened? Are these all faked? Steven Bonnar MP Oh wait, is this the reason, he’s upset? First, she moans about the fans singing without masks on, now the players sunbathing without them on. She must be a Gers fan. Continue reading Idea of SNP agenda against Celtic causes mirth

When I saw the Herald headline below, I smelled a rat. I didn’t expect it to be a winged one. After a quick search, it became clear that the poll had been paid for and scripted by Wings over Scotland. In a strange report, Stuart Campbell writes: In addition to the Survation poll that was in the field last week and which we’ve been reporting on, there was also a Panelbase one going round at the same time. (It’s as yet unpublished, and having been sent a few of the… interesting questions in it by some people who took the poll we’re very excited to find out who … Continue reading I smell a rat

An informative piece in the Herald and missing only two things. A headline that clarifies just what is going on here, done above, and some indication of the scale of Scotland’s resilience in transferring huge amounts of power to England would help. Note in the Herald’s headline ‘Scottish grid premium charges’ to refer to what are, of course, UK grid’s charges imposed on Scotland. From David Bol today: A LEADING energy company has warned that Scotland will not be able to scale up wind farms to meet climate targets without an overhaul of charging regimes that “penalises” projects north of the border. … Continue reading Feeding England’s demand for power and paying for the ‘privilege’

As NHS England suffers a real crisis with infection and death rates surging to the highest in the World and whole regions on the very edge of being overwhelmed, the BBC Health Correspondent, Lisa Summers, pounces gleefully on a report from James Cook on one of Scotland’s more hard-pressed areas, Monklands in Lanarkshire. You might remember Summers, a few weeks ago, excited about a small rise in hospital-acquired Covid infections in Scotland but not mentioning that they were only at 2% and at that, a tiny fraction of the rates in NHS England. Or, back in 2019, when she decided … Continue reading Desperately seeking the same as England

From BBC Scotland’s Glenn Campbell at 06:27am and no doubt all day, we hear, headlined again, of Scotland’s drug deaths, the highest in Europe allegedly and watch an attempt to pin something on the First Minister. Writing the tabloid headlines for them, Campbell notes that deaths have doubled in the years since Nicola Sturgeon took over. The Conservatives get to demand a big expansion in services but escape without any reference to their role in denying the permission at UK-level, for the safe injection rooms that could save many lives. As for the historical background linking the high death rate … Continue reading Shielding the Tories from drug deaths and pinning the blame on Nicola

They’ve been busy at BBC Scotland News. There’s a lot to cover so I’ll just do this one for them. Maybe someone will be interested. More than twice as many cases of infection in England and Scotland has the lowest rate in the UK? No, really? What about deaths? Didn’t Andrew Marr say it’s worse in Scotland? Fiona Bruce too? What twice as high again in England and Scotland has the lowest death rate in the UK? That can’t be right. We’d know all about if it was true. I know, vaccines! Ah hah! Gotcha! Scotland is behind the curve, … Continue reading Lowest infection AND death rates? Nah, there’s no interest in that