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6 days ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
A Butterfly On Absinthe
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.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
The Flip
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, which we hitched a lift on.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
If you’re a fan of lazy, superficial political analysis, you might have read elsewhere 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 now.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
The Blackout
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 schools, pushing gender ideology onto children as young as four despite only having a remit to support 13-25-year-olds.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
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 works nowadays.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
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. But the absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the headline is that it works just as well the other way round.
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1 week ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from an anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages, 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; a vote that Yessers – people tend to forget this part too – initially had no real expectation of winning, until an inspirationally positive campaign saw the polls draw neck-and-neck.
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2 weeks ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
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 weird response, because that’s been the official stated position of both the UK government and the Conservative Party for at least the last 12 years.
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2 weeks ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
Just a couple more shots
We’re getting there, folks. Keep pushing.
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2 weeks ago | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Stuart Campbell
The Ace Attorney
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 wait to see how that pans out. As you were, folks. Sorry for the false alarm.
