Dec 29, 2024 · 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 exercis…

Jan 5, 2025 · 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 outlie…

Jan 11, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 9, 2025 · 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 Orba…

Jan 7, 2025 · 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 ef…

Dec 3, 2024 · 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 what we believe, thanks to you, our readers. And since those ...

6 days ago · 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. Read the rest of this entry →

Jan 20, 2025 · 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 S…

Sep 19, 2024 · As for the next 10 years, that’s another question. The event was thoroughly enjoyable, and definitely worth the 16 hours on trains there and back (Standard Class, by the way, despite what that shifty Salmond character tried to claim on stage. Never believe a politician.) Not least because I also got to see the World’s Best Mammy. But everyone that I met was absolutely lovely, whether ...

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