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Wings Over Scotland
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Wings Over Scotland is a personal blog at wingsoverscotland.com about politics. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its arguments on Scottish independence, BBC bias, imprisonment figures for trans-identifying men, and the Darien scheme. Commenters mostly cite posts as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scottish independence Scotland politics referendum
What Hacker News says?
And yet, they still aren't learning their lesson - from either the indyref or GE2015. Early polling suggests that the SNP will probably take all or most the constituency seats in next year's Scottish Parliamentary elections, and probably a good chunk of the list seats, resulting in an even larger majority for the SNP (in a system designed to prevent this happening). Meanwhile in the face of this the unionist press c…
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on “Questions about the Sunday Times Snowden Story”Submitted YouTube Shuts Down Scottish Independence Channel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd another: https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2019/08/04/what-the-gers-... Edit: Funny how the "deficit" only appeared at the time independence was first discussed as a real possibility: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-inverse-miracle/
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on “Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit”Submitted Grassroots Scottish independence campaign crowdfunds their professional polling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAh, I was thinking of the election rules where they are required to give a representative amount of time to each party, not the impartiality rules which, frankly, are vague to the point of uselessness. The classic example of BBC lies would be Nick Robinson of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XhTALHQzI If you want a more recent example of BBC bias, try: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-bad-losers/
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on “Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts”I agree, the BBC's coverage of the Scottish Referendum has been appallingly biased. Even after the referendum, the reporting of attacks (by a large contingent of pro-union thugs) on peaceful Yes supporters who gathered in Glasgow's George Square last Friday was heavily skewed and managed: http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/9773-... The selective editing by the BBC's Nick Robinson, who didn't get…
Comment linking /out-in-the-open/
on “The invasion of corporate news”It happens on both sides, but my feeling is that the No campaign is hard to outdo when it comes to spreading fear[1]. Fair point about "think of the children" - though I'd say that it happens on both sides[2]. Not that there's a lack of arguments for independence - again, the Wee Blue Book I linked to above presents them quite well! [1]: http://wingsoverscotland.com/when-youre-happy-and-you-know-i... [2]: http://www…
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on “Scotland's Decision”That's a weak rebuttal, it relies on the claim that there could be hundreds upon hundreds of trans-identifying males imprisoned that no-one knows about. Also see this: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-rorschach-test/ It explains how additional data including from later years, and from New Zealand, supports the observation that these men are more likely to be in prison for sex crimes than men in general, and much, m…
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on “AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes”Spain wouldn't block Scotland's entry to the EU, it comes down to fishing rights, amongst other things: "However there is another reason closer to the heart of the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy that Spain won’t block Scottish accession to the EU. Interestingly, during the last independence referendum Rajoy was asked three times in an interview with El Pais newspaper whether he would veto Scotland, and three t…
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on “Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving the EU?”Darien might have been a mess, but there's far more to the story than just that. England was an actively hostile suitor to Scotland: http://wingsoverscotland.com/weekend-essay-skintland-britnat...
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on “Scottish Parliament Backs Independence Vote and Defies U.K”I think you're giving the BBC's stance on being apolitical a bit too much credence. You only have to study the BBC's coverage of the Scottish Independence Referendum, the Westminster General Election ('15) in Scotland and, well, pretty much everything else from it's news output about Scottish politics. This is a broadcaster that operates in "defence of the realm" mode with regards to SNP/pro-independence politics an…
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on “Dutch report: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine”I'll just point you here: https://wingsoverscotland.com/reference/ https://wingsoverscotland.com/weebluebook/ https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-wee-black-book/ Fully sourced and referenced. Stu Campbell isn't everyone's cuppa, but his writings on the shite, filth and corruption that went on during the Scottish Indyref in 2014 are reasonably bulletproof. I'll happily admit that the one thing the SNP messed up on was…
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on “In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal”I'd say that it's less right/left wing, it's a pro-establishment bias, with the BBC operating in Defence of the Realm mode since Greg Dyke resigned in 2004. Nick Robinson is a hypocrite. During the Scottish Independence referendum the BBC London media stars, such as Nick, got a bit of a jolt because of an ICM/Telegraph poll showing a lead for the Yes campaign just days before the vote. Nick and his colleagues "big f…
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on “UK's coal plants to be phased out within 10 years”There was more to the Scottish colony in Darien failing than just that, the English state had a hand in it, and an incentive to ensure it failed. As to the post failure financial effect, that was mainly on a bunch of rich folks. Scotland per-se was not in any financial distress after the failure of the scheme, as it was private individuals, not the state which had invested. Have a read of this piece, which covers a…
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on “The Darién Gap”