The Stew-pot calling the Stew-kettle Snow White

You may have noticed that this has been a recurring theme from Stew for several weeks now - whenever I point out the obvious fact that voting against independence is not the ideal strategy for winning independence, he accuses me of "hate".  He even wrote a blogpost about me on Wings a few weeks ago called "Blinded By Hate" - although curiously it does not feature in his "compare and contrast" list of blogposts (or in his pie-chart of blogposts - genuinely a thing!) which seeks to establish that he has only ever written three blogposts about me and that I have written dozens about him.  Mysteriously, his landmark 2022 blogpost "For Karen and James", in which he made the downright bonkers claim that I and Karen Adam were literally the only reasons he had returned to "full-time blogging", also does not appear on the list or pie-chart of his supposed "three blogposts" about me.  Nor do the vast majority of the other blogposts about me that have featured on Wings over the years.

What is going on here?  Well, look at the screenshotted tweet above.  You'll notice that it's unambiguously about me but it doesn't directly mention me by name.  He does the same thing in many of his other tweets and blogposts about me.  A cynic might almost wonder if that's a deliberate tactic - allowing him to stalk me relentlessly while still being able to innocently invite people to "do a search of the words 'James Kelly' on the site - look, only three posts appear!  It's him that is Blinded By Hate, not me!"  But then a cynic would only wonder that because cynics are very, very cynical indeed.  

So what is this "hate" of which he speaks?  I can only assume that he thinks I hate both him and the Alba Party (or at least the Alba leadership) - that's what he seemed to be getting at in the past.  But, Stew, here's the thing - Fergus Ewing is not you, and he's not even a member of the Alba Party, so why would my supposed "hate" extend to him?  I find him perfectly likeable, and I've actually been extremely complimentary about him at times - I've said that I agreed with some (definitely not all, but some) of his critique of the SNP's strategic choices over the last few years, and I also made abundantly clear that I thought the SNP had made a terrible mistake by temporarily suspending him.  It's hard to make much sense of what Stew is getting at unless he's hinting that there's some kind of informal arrangement between Alba and Mr Ewing that he knows about and the rest of us don't.

But there's also the small matter of the pot calling the kettle black.  If Stew thinks that me calling for independence supporters to vote for the pro-independence Scottish National Party is a "strange place" for me to end up in, and that I can only have been led there by "hate", what would he say about a nominally pro-independence blogger who told his readers to vote for the anti-independence Labour party in the general election, simply as an act of revenge because he was so eaten up with resentment and bitterness after Nicola Sturgeon refused to back him in his idiotic vanity court case against Kezia Dugdale?  What would he say about the same blogger now moving towards an outright endorsement of the soft-fascist and most certainly anti-independence party Reform UK - something he'll only be able to justify with mind-bending contortions of logic along the lines of "to win independence, we must first kill independence"?  

I think that's a pretty strange place for you to end up in, Stew, and yes, I do think you've been led there by hate - or at the very least by deep-seated bitterness and grievance.  Others may disagree...but only because you've brainwashed them.

This is, in fact, not only untrue but a massive insult to both groups for different reasons. pic.twitter.com/oQ1cz10dQo

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) June 20, 2025

Here's yet another Stew tweet that is unambiguously about me but evades the search function by not mentioning me by name.  It's also just about the laziest retort I've ever seen from him - it amounts to no more than "Rubbish, because reasons!"  Who are the two "groups"?  What is the nature of the "massive insult"?  What are the "different reasons" for it being an insult in each case?  Nobody knows, and his lips are sealed.  Probably you're supposed to conclude that he'd tell you if only you were on his own plane of intellect, and capable of understanding.

One logical possibility is that the two groups he's referring to are "Palestinians" and "humanity", and that he regards a comparison between the two as an insult to humanity, because he sees the entire Palestinian ethnic group as 'terrorist trash'.  That's a point he made once before when he wrote a blogpost last year calling for the Green MSP Ross Greer to be prosecuted for hate crimes simply because he had used the words "Victory to Palestine!  Victory to humanity!"   According to Stew, "Palestine" and "Hamas" are indistinguishable concepts, and you are therefore illegally supporting a proscribed terrorist group if you simply wish the Palestinians success in their resistance to genocide.

Conflating the Palestinian ethnic group with Hamas most certainly constitutes a profound insult, but I somehow doubt Stew has had that particular epiphany quite yet.  So what he thinks the insult to Palestinians was remains a total mystery.