It's yet another epic fail in court for psychotic madman and disgraced ex-cop Lynsay Watson. (Hi Lynsay, I know you're reading.) judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl… Ooft.

Relevant to the thread I posted yesterday: Malcolm is a good guy and his contribution to the gender wars has been invaluable, but this really is the most ridiculous parade of utter bollocks. Good people say stupid stuff sometimes.

https://twitter.com/twisterfilm/status/1956423587730276354

This, for example, is obvious shite. “Mainstream SNP strategy” was cuddly to a fault. The party never endorsed Wings, for example, even though we were almost its only journalistic voice, because we were perceived by some as too aggressive.

https://twitter.com/twisterfilm/status/1956423590728856055

How many times do you read a story of woke censoriousness or trans capitulation in Scotland and the person responsible looks exactly like this? Sturgeon stuffed every position of influence in the country with them. The chief constable:

It’s so weird that half of Twitter is talking about the Peggie tribunal but only 30 of us are allowed to watch it. It’s a lot of responsibility. For some reason the witness is sitting with her back to the camera today.

Full judgment in Linzi Smith vs Northumbria Police: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… Ouch. (The Defendant is the Chief Constable.)

Uh, no. It’s the result of the actions of transactivists. Uh, no. The court UPHELD the definition of lesbian. A transman is a female, so they were never a straight couple.

It's weird when your worlds collide. In my spare time this week I've been compiling a history of the classic arcade videogame GORF, written by Jay Fenton in 1981. Here's Jay.
And here's Jay (now Jamie Faye) in the early 2000s.

These are the Standing Orders of the Scottish Parliament, clearly stipulating that Maggie Chapman should not have participated in the debate and vote about her own removal. So why were they not followed? parliament.scot/about/how-parl… The only possible answer appears to be that that rule applies to a *specific* committee, solely concerned with member standards. In which case Maggie Chapman's conduct should be the subject of that committee immediately.

Now, I've been saying this for at least a couple of years. The long slog of starting again from scratch is the only realistic option. The problem with that is that this imaginary new party couldn't contain both Robin and me. robinmcalpine.org/theyre-all-tor… I like Robin a lot and I have a vast amount of personal and political respect for him. But we disagree too profoundly on too many issues - Net Zero, to pluck one at random - to ever be able to work in the same party. So now we already need at least TWO new parties.

Russell Findlay invites anyone from Scottish Labour (Anas Sarwar isn't present) to stand up and tell him what it is that they know now that they didn't know when they voted for the GRR. He pauses and waits. Nobody does. Although Mercedes Villalba does stand up and squawk that no harm has ever resulted from self-ID, to some astonishment in the chamber.

Here's Mary Lockhart. She's on the board of NHS Fife. And here's her (husband or brother, we're reading conflicting sources), Patricia. Anything becoming clearer?


Here's Patricia when he was still Peter.

The Scottish Government just released a 67-page "Action Plan" report about something that doesn't exist. tinyurl.com/ynxh6jmm No it fucking isn't.

But, but... you spent the last 10 years telling us they definitely COULDN'T keep refusing, didn't you? I'm sure I remember. Here, for example, you appear to suggest that continuing to refuse is "unsustainable".

Watching the Salmond-Sturgeon documentary. Most of Episode 1 is just a history of the SNP. Some funny old footage but not really very interesting, feels like padding. The only notable bit is the presence of Liz Lloyd. Despite everything that's happened, you get some kind of sense of regret from Sturgeon, Robertson et al, who clearly remember the good times with Salmond. Lloyd is just sheer poisonous hatred, smirking and smearing and knifing. She's grotesque.

Let's actually take a moment to look into the idea of the "15-minute neighbourhood", and what it's actually saying. It immediately sounds a lot like the bad old days of "the company store" to me. A captive market deprived of options. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_s…

Fuck me, she's a book reviewer now. theguardian.com/books/article/… The similarities between Sturgeon and Blair ARE quite striking. Both swept to power on the crest of a wave of someone else's work (Alex Salmond/John Smith), and then slowly frittered it all away while destroying their party's core principles in a personality cult.

Currently watching a Court Of Session hearing with regard to Alex Salmond's civil case against the Scottish Government, where a dramatic revelation has just been made about a very senior Scottish civil servant being subject to a serious criminal inquiry by Police Scotland. The investigation is called Operation Broadcroft, and is into the suspected crime of wilfully making false statements on oath at the Salmond inquiry.

So, yeah, a story. I was on holiday in England's premier seaside resort during the later stages of Italia 90. On the evening of England's semi-final against Germany, my gf and I went out for a stroll in the deserted streets to avoid the game...

https://twitter.com/s_y_w_y_s/status/1812041954726748356

Late on, when it should have been over, we decided to visit the Tower. We got to the top of the inside part, where it turned out there was a big screen showing the last few minutes of extra time to a few dozen drinkers.

Yeah, YOU, you fucking cretin. That microscopic number of mentally ill narcissists, who already had the exact same rights as everyone else, is what you and your fuckwit pals burned down a 90-year movement and a 17-year government for. They weren't being persecuted. There are almost no recorded instances in Scotland of a trans person being attacked, and not a single one has ever been killed. Everybody has forms to fill in sometimes. Everyone has to wait for medical treatment. There. Was. No. Problem. To. Solve.

I'm desperate for this wretched election to be over, even though everything will be indisputably worse after it. It's like waiting to go to the dentist, except at least with the dentist you know your teeth will be in better shape afterwards. I don't want to listen to these awful shitrags lying to me and insulting my intelligence any more.

The question that @EdinRapeCrisis, Rape Crisis Scotland, @Edinburgh_CC, and the @scotgov should all be being asked today is "How can a biological and legal MAN who was the driver of a systematic campaign of harassment of a woman possibly continue to head a rape crisis centre?" Rape Crisis Scotland and its chief Sandy Brindley, of course, both ran away from Twitter some time ago to avoid scrutiny and being held to account by the public.