So let's just think about what this means.

(1) The Greens, we're asked to believe, will back the government/abstain on the confidence vote DESPITE THE GOVERMENT NOT HAVING A FIRST MINISTER. archive.ph/L80zQ (2) The SNP will then conduct a leadership election under a sword of Damocles, knowing that if they pick someone the Greens don't like they'll immediately face another confidence vote, and looking indescribably pathetic for the next few months.

This is from LGBT Youth Scotland and Scottish Trans' document "Supporting Transgender Young People", published in 2017, funded by the Scottish Government and endorsed by 16 of Scotland's 32 local authorities.



Basically, it instructs schools that if there is any conflict between a "trans" child and a non-trans child, the trans child's wishes should always come first.

A thread of more Scottish primary schools signed up to LGBT Youth Scotland's indoctrination scheme.

Broomhill Primary, Glasgow

blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/broomhillpr… Portlethen Primary, Aberdeenshire

portlethen-pri.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/pupil-groups/p…

Here is the "context" of Humza Yousaf's "WHITE!" speech, and a link to the whole thing so you can read it yourself: parliament.scot/chamber-and-co…
Yousaf asserts that Scotland is beset with racism and horrific racial injustice in many forms. His evidence? Someone on TV was asked why they stay in Britain if they don't like it here, something Yousaf claims would never happen to a white person. (Trivia fact: Afua Hirsch was born in Norway.)

This is a really shockingly bad piece of partisan Pollyanna apologism from @PeatWorrier for an astonishingly poorly-constructed Act that's opposed by such hysterical extremist loonballs as [checks notes] the Scottish Police Federation. archive.is/AJ4y2 It might be strictly semantically correct to say that *the Act* doesn't say that, but Police Scotland have been extremely clear about how they'll be interpreting it.

It's clearer and clearer now that what actually happened five years ago was the SNP declaring war not on a tiny handful of social-media extremists, but on the entire grassroots Yes movement, which was then at the height of its power. wingsoverscotland.com/at-midnight-al…




The Wings fundraiser that year, which was running when that Herald piece went up, ended on a staggering £170,000. AUOB had just put 100,000+ people on the streets, again. But Neil Mackay and the SNP teamed up to attack them both. wingsoverscotland.com/last-call/

The Presiding Officer apologises to the Parliament on behalf of Shona Robison for her having revealed the decision on GRR on telly last night. Shirley-Anne Somerville stands up and lies about what Robison said. Somerville is now making a "reduced" statement based on the parts of the statement that Robison didn't already blab.

@MForstater All and every aspect. The destruction of women's rights, the mutilation of children, the attack on gay people and lesbians in particular. But the key driver for me is much simpler: the truth. We should fight lies wherever we find them, because they are the root of all evil. @MForstater Sooner or later, if you allow lies to take hold, if you enshrine lies in law, if you hound and persecute the people who resist the lies, absolutely everything will turn to shit. Because eventually the truth will assert itself, with the brutality of nature.

What IS the story with Business For/Believe In Scotland? The former has nine directors but only £3,790 in assets. The latter is a "dormant company" with assets of £1. How can this also be the self-proclaimed "grassroots Yes movement"? What happens to all the cash they raise?



BiS sure does tweet a lot for a "dormant" company. And didn't it just hold a big glitzy fundraising dinner at £1,800 a table with no less than the First Minister in attendance? How is that "dormant"?

I promise you're going to be surprised by the source of this paragraph (which is not in any way taken out of context), and the whole piece contains some uncomfortable food for thought. Link below. effiedeans.com/2023/09/wings-…

Not so much a dead-cat bounce as a dead cat being thrown down a flight of stairs. https://t.co/SoWt6dTLFpwingsoverscotland.com/the-ultimate-j…
What's interesting about that graph, of course, is that it shows the collapse was already well under way when Nicola Sturgeon resigned, it wasn't a result of it.

Robin McAlpine speaking for everyone with a brain here. I suspect the SNP's position is going to be very significantly worse by the end of this month, never mind 100 weeks into the future. https://t.co/T5Vh5pEEanrobinmcalpine.org/scotland-backw…
I share Robin's editorial frustration too. I'm bored writing what is essentially the same article- the SNP are malicious, incompetent and uninterested in independence - repeatedly. I might even follow his example and take this week off. But until people see it, we're stuck.

So, @firstdirect are a bunch of dickbags. I've banked with them for 25+ years, but last week I was in Sainsbury's buying some milk during a Bear Patrol and my card got declined. I rang them up, and after over an hour on hold, they told me all my accounts had been cancelled. These were my personal current and savings accounts, not the Wings one, which is with a different bank. It obviously came as something of a shock - this was ALL my money - so I asked why on Earth such a thing would have happened, and they point-blank refused to give any reason.

There's STILL no report from yesterday's NEC meeting on the SNP members' website. Usually up almost immediately. Screenshot taken two minutes ago. I mean, it's not like they get much info - it's usually one paragraph saying "Squealer praised Napoleon for the successful delivery of the Eighteenth Glorious Three-Year Plan", but if they can't manage even that then things are looking grim.

I met Ruth Wishart, fleetingly, once, at a Yes event in Shawlands a few days before the indyref. Having grown up reading her in the Daily Record, I went up and introduced myself, saying what a fan of her work I'd been. Reader, she looked at me like something she'd trodden in.

https://twitter.com/ruth_wishart/status/1646220937820241927

There are a lot of people who REALLY don't like me, for one reason or another, and I've met many of them in person. But I swear to God I've never seen a look of such horrified distaste on anyone's face as I did that day.

TRY Scotland! Back in the lead, 10-6. 12-6 and a man up for the next 8m 👍

I'm afraid this is a load of shite. Funnily enough, just yesterday I'd noticed that the last few issues of FHM (2014/15) were still available on Readly, and I had a look over them with a committed feminist of my acquaintance.

https://twitter.com/TheMoominmama/status/1636681404623798272

FHM's motto was "It's great to be a man", and it did its best to uphold it. And that certainly did involve a lot of scantily-clad ladies on the front cover. (Compare to modern-day Esquire, which is an almost totally female-free zone.)

I mean, how would this - going ahead with "the big players" only - work? Would you still have to pay the deposit in wee shops, but only be able to reclaim it at big ones? That's a disaster for the wee shops.

https://twitter.com/WingsScotland/status/1635807092228386817

Or would you NOT have to pay it at wee shops, in which case you could buy stuff cheap at the corner shop but then claim the non-existent deposit back at Tesco? Massive wealth redistribution, I like it! Tesco not so keen.

@RoddyQC @holyroodmandy @theSNP @HumzaYousaf @_KateForbes @AshReganSNP I don't think they're bought or sold, or directed by sinister foreign owners. But as a professional journalist of 32 years' experience, I feel qualified to assert that they are almost all abysmal at their jobs - lazy, complacent, groundlessly arrogant, and incurious. @RoddyQC @holyroodmandy @theSNP @HumzaYousaf @_KateForbes @AshReganSNP There are of course exceptions (Mandy included), and I draw no political distinctions. There are terrible, terrible journalists, and a handful of good ones, on both sides of the constitutional divide.

Told to expect a significant story on Sky News in 20 minutes, gang. No more info. Now told it's 4.30 and downgraded from "significant" to "interesting". Stand down 🕵️‍♂️

Yousaf first up, delivers a slick but content-free speech. Forbes is next up, and the sound on the stream immediately cuts out. Seriously. Sound back on. Forbes claims to have started as an activist when she was 17, which I think would have been 2008. Hmmm.