Month: February 2014
Three shots, three goals
Let any dispute be over. Wings Over Scotland has the best readers. We’re not taking all the credit, of course. Yes Glasgow and Labour For Independence were already much of the way to their targets. But we’re super-proud of you for the Borders campaign – they started the day with …read more
Get your feet back on the ground
A chance comment on Twitter this afternoon gave us a fun thought – with over 230,000 readers a month, could we get a song to No.1 in the charts by ourselves now, as both publicity and a rallying call for the Yes movement? We got lots of suggestions for songs …read more
Dear Sir….

I’ve got a job at last! Blogging to end immediately…I’m hunting out my suit…Listen to this – BBC Scotland wants a public affairs adviser, someone with intimate knowledge of Scottish politics, who understands broadcasting and can advise senior management at PQ. It’s made for me…
They’re advertising for a good communicator …read more
Moray objects to Highland wind farm
We’re oil-rich! We’re doomed!
During a BBC referendum debate, Jenny Marra – the Labour MSP – said that oil production from the North Sea was declining. She was pleased with delivering this supposedly telling blow to the case for independence, and her words were welcomed by the old ladies in the audience clapping at …read more
We’re oil-rich! We’re doomed!
During a BBC referendum debate, Jenny Marra – the Labour MSP – said that oil production from the North Sea was declining. She was pleased with delivering this supposedly telling blow to the case for independence, and her words were welcomed by the old ladies in the audience clapping at …read more
National Collective Member Showcase (February)


Welcome to the first of what will be a monthly showcase of members’ arts contributions. Our independence movement is writing, painting and illustrating Scotland from the ground up, and this space will exemplify how self-expression and self-determination go hand in hand. We would like to offer this space to all …read more
Goosestep Foot Forward
“Security state” fruitcake Rupert Sutton of the ultra neo-con Henry Jackson Society has an article on the puzzlingly named and indescribably dull Zionist blog Left Foot Forward, in which he attacks Moazzam Begg.
Sutton displays precisely the mind-set of the security state, that led GCHQ to intercept the webcam …read more
From The Province of the Cat – The Agony of North Sea Oil
by George Gunn On Monday 24th February 2014 it was a tale of two cabinets and one city. This was the day we saw two different political cultures at work. After a brief sprint around BP’s ETAP platform roughly 100… Read More › …read more
Glasgow Girls: “Just imagine you were them and they were you”


A musical about the brutal deportation failed asylums seekers in the UK can face is an unlikely premise for a successful theatre production. When the director, Cora Bissett, first approached the real Glasgow Girls – a group of teenagers at Drumchapel High School – they had their doubts. How would …read more
Feeling the Fear
We’ve kept you waiting for this (at least, if you follow our Twitter account), but it’s worth it. An alert reader sent it to us last night, and it’s NOT one of our ever-popular spoofs. To the best of our knowledge it’s 100% genuine. That’s right – the latest desperate …read more
Reporting on Douglas and his Fantasy Britain
By Mike Small Douglas Alexander’s speech today is a travesty of superficiality and bland meaningless utterances about more powers for the Scottish Parliament. It’s not so much light as non-existent. There is, literally no content, no actual detail at all…. Read More › …read more
Sports retailer comes to Elgin
Love spreads
We’re nowhere near done asking you for money in our second annual fundraiser yet. But with the original goal smashed to pieces in just 48 hours, we can afford to take a day off to direct you to a couple of other worthy pro-independence causes that could do with a …read more
Independent Scotland could be AAA rated – Standard & Poors
In a massive blow to the credibility of the No Campaign’s scaremongering, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s released a report yesterday, clearly stating that an independent Scotland would be an investment grade economy. The report states emphatically that S&P would expect Scotland to ‘benefit from all the attributes …read more