In the video below, I also give my thoughts on Stuart Campbell's frankly disturbing reaction to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, which has shocked even his habitual supporters and defenders to the core.
If you have only a 0.2 second window to make a decision about whether to murder someone, a good rule of thumb is not to murder them. pic.twitter.com/sfBIaqRjdY
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) January 8, 2026
He has turned into a far right figure. I always thought he was just a gadfly but he has placed himself firmly on the far right.
— Jim (@james198428) January 8, 2026
Some people have been absolutely fried by the current media landscape and the algorithm on Twitter, which has been turned into a hate generator.
I have seen from three different angles the events of this shooting by this so called agent, it was murder pure simple and deliberate, an act of arrogance by a man sure and certain in his thinking that he was protected from above by a regime that filled him with the confidence that he would be supported
ReplyDeleteThe second he realised that he'd gone too far was when he made his way from the scene to a vehicle and left speedily leaving his cohorts to secure his escape
America will now clear it's mind about Trump and see this for what it is
As for England's wee domestic idiot Campbell he ceased to be a Scotsman a long time ago and is as British as there is, forget about the little tiny man he is, his comeuppance will no doubt be as ugly as he is
> America will now clear it's mind about Trump and see this for what it is
DeleteI sincerely doubt that. He got away with his minions storming the Congress building 5 years ago. The next time he was on the ballot, Americans voted him in as President more decisively than before.
Comeuppance is in short supply these days.
America will now clear it's mind about Trump and see this for what it is
DeleteAre you new on this planet
John Swinney has stated that an independent Scotland under his leadership would send troops to Ukraine in support of the Kyiv government.
ReplyDeleteJust to be clear, as recently as a couple of months ago, when questioned about ethnic minorities living in the pre 2014 boundaries of Ukraine, that great liberal defender of freedom, democracy, and Western values, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated “There’s only one language in Ukraine, and that’s Ukrainian.”.
This is no small matter, the whole conflict kicked off in 2014, when the US State Department initiated coup installed an ethnographic-supremacist regime which made it clear that everyone under their control would be required to speak Ukrainian, at the point of a gun if necessary.
As something who was beaten with a leather strap at primary school for using the Scots language, I find that abhorrent.
Respect of the divergent ethnicities within the boundaries of Ukraine was at the heart of the Minsk Accords, and every administration in Kyiv, spat in the face of their commitments to honour those.
All this is of course laughably hypothetical. I will win the EuroMillions two weeks in a row before Mayor Swinney is leader of an independent Scotland.
The EU’s own rules require member states to respect ethnic minorities, and their languages living within their borders. This is risible nonsense beyond contempt. Latvia was permitted membership of the EU despite declaring all Russian speaking folk living within its borders when it gained its independence, to be non-Citizens.
DeletePrior to the European Commission appointing rabid, Russophobe, Kaja Kallas, High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, the Commission would admit (when pressed), that Latvia should never have been granted membership.
The European Commission will grant Ukraine membership of the EU (after scrapping their rules requiring a unanimous vote).
Heaven help any speakers of Russian, Polish, Magyar, Romanian, or Pontic Greek remaining in that much geographically diminished by that stage country.
Just to be clear, as recently as a couple of months ago, when questioned about ethnic minorities living in the pre 2014 boundaries of Ukraine, that great liberal defender of freedom, democracy, and Western values, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated “There’s only one language in Ukraine, and that’s Ukrainian.”.
DeleteI've always seen this cited as "There's only one *state* language in Ukraine", which has rather different connotations. Can I assume you're a Ukrainian speaker and your version is a first-hand translation?
@12.49
DeleteAn impressive parade of ignorance (willful?) masquerading as facts. It's easy to find out about Latvia's language policy prior to EU accession. Maybe you could try to.
Anonymous at 8:23 AM
DeleteYou weren't actually beaten at school for using the Scots language, were you. It's a story you probably found in a magazine which you are recycling to show that despite your suffering and martyrdom, you are ruthlessly disinterested and unbiased. Very praiseworthy and a bit reminiscent of the "Some of my best friends are gay/black" line.
Campbell is a fellow traveler (grifter) of the preposterously named Revolutionary Communist Party (as was).
ReplyDeleteOn closer inspection, this group was made up of middle class, intellectuals occupying extremely comfortable sinecures in tertiary education, at the expense of the British state.
They later morphed into the Institute of Ideas, and online magazine, Spiked. One of their number sits on the red benches in the House of Lords, while the remainder take funding (and ideological direction) from the far right, American, Koch Foundation.
The Revolutionary Communist Party were middle class, elitist, vanguardist scum, who regarded the working class with barely disguised contempt.
Is that the same right wing outfit that working class hero and icon Jim "Eggie" Murphy was a stalwart of?
DeleteFind Out Now, Westminster voting intention, field work 7 - 8 Jan.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 14% lead over Tories, no real change week on week.
Scottish sub-sample (118).
Con 11%, Lab 8%, LibDem 11%, RefUK 21%, Green 15%, SNP 31%.
Labour cut adrift, and sinking. The mair folk are forced to look at Anas Sarwar’s baw heid polluting the targeted spam on their YouTube feed, the mair they recoil.
James, your thoughts on Stoo are absolutely correct 💯% you nailed it
ReplyDeleteAs someone who genuinely valued Stu Campbell's work during the referendum and in the year immediately following it, I find it absolutely incredible to see how far to the right his politics have moved. Nowadays he just comes across as a complete zoomer.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone ever asked Stew Campbell if he has ever received donations from wealthy Unionist donors or Israel lobbyists? It would be fun just to get him to confirm and deny it. This sort of right wing apologist nonsense is being exposed more and more with Social media bloggers,, and often the sheer madness of supporting clear obvious lies, is rooted in who funds them!
ReplyDeleteThe Westminster, Parliamentary, Home Affairs Committee looking into the exclusion of Maccabi Tel Aviv, violent, racist, football ultras from last year’s Aston Villa game, done broke the Internet.
ReplyDeleteEveryone of these supposedly British MPs had to declare themselves lobbyists for the Zionist, apartheid, state.
Westminster is the laughing stock of the world.
Who knew the “Home” in Home Affairs Committee was Israel?
You can pay people to do say or write anything, we all know it, the British built an empire on cash for trash
ReplyDeleteI'm a long time fan of Wings, I still read his site, although I never go anywhere near the cess pit that is his comments section, and for years, he was right more often than he was wrong. He's spent too long on social media though, and he appears to have gone down a weird extremist rabbit hole like so many others. It looks like his train has well and truly jumped the tracks on this occasion!
ReplyDeleteAbsolute denial of facts on a video that we have all watched, and the weird mention of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is classic social media feelings over facts stuff. His repeated insistence that nothing is happening in Scottish politics, along with his drip feeding of reform propaganda, is all because he's not really connected to Scotland any more. He's become an outsider looking in.
Campbell always was a guy who showed no empathy for victims.
ReplyDeleteRight back to his blaming football fans, including those who actually died, for that infamous stadium disaster, through downplaying and outright denying the tens of thousands of innocent civilians murdered by the IDF in the hell-hole which is Gaza, to now backing this latest atrocity by that band of masked fascist thugs called ICE who are terrorising innocent Americans and murdering them as well.
Campbell is one sick, twisted, fascist piece of human Trash.
As James says in this video, Campbell's real persona is now right in front of us and it is not a pretty sight.
Needless to say, though, he is still applauded in his comments section by the other twisted fascist sickos who inhabit that stinking putrid swamp.
They are all beyond hope and beyond caring about.
Let them fester together with Reform.
Stewie is only interested in the human race, when the trans issue rears its head.
ReplyDeleteAppart from that, he has all the empathy for genuine victims of wars, genocides etc... of a common or garden housebrick.
Cold indifference seems to be his trademark.
Apart from his burning hatred for SNP and Greens, of course.
And his new found fanboy love for his latest pin-up, Fascist Nigel.
Greenland's party leaders have issued a joint statement including the line 'The future of Greenland must be decided by the Greenlandic people'.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately, in the current geopolitical climate those words have all the impact of Ian Blackford's Scotland will not be dragged out of the EU against it's will speech at Westminster.
Trump knows he can, and probably will walk into Greenland and it's tiny population will be ignored and nobody will come to help them.
All very sad in 2026.
The current generation of UK politicians from all parties are hopelessly compromised by decades long cultivation by the US State Department. This very much includes the SNP, even if Jenny Gilruth edits (falsifies) her Declaration of interests to claim otherwise.
DeleteThey cannot conceive of a situation where America is the enemy.
At the very least, the rational response would be to pull the UK “independent nuclear deterrent” (which isn’t independent at all because it relies on American missiles, and they retain the launch codes), and use the budgetary savings on something more constructive. Frankly anything would be more constructive than Trident.
The European political elites have been similarly infected by the US, Permanent State. Macron, Mertz, UvdL, et al are rabbits caught in the headlights. In absence of leadership from these clowns, Europe is not entirely powerless. The EU, and UK have in excess of 500 million citizens. Substantially more than the US. We can inflict real damage on US commerce.
Some hits will be easy. Tesla EVs, and Harley Davidson two wheeled tractors. High tech (hardware, and software) will be harder, particularly for the English speaking world. France knew better (for their own chauvinistic reasons) than to mildly accept US tech hegemony (or Hollywood for that matter).
On military, and commercial fields of conflict the solution is to deploy asymmetric warfare. The tactic of the European Commission; to fine US big tech, leaves the EU open to tit-for-tat reprisals, which the Trump administration is all too eager to deploy.
I suspect the Nabobs of Foggy Bottom were never too keen on Trump’s undisguised aggressive demonstration of hegemony over the Western hemisphere. They are willing to take easy wins where only manageable risk is incurred. Greenland is a step too far. It endangers (vaporises) theirs long established control over the European political elites (who will loose all credibility, and fall if they are not seen to fight against naked American imperialism directed, for a change, at them).
If the Tech oligarchs (most notably Musk) start to squeal, the American Permanent State will do what it always does to a President who oversteps the mark. Key elements of the Secret Service, Presidential Security Detail were stood down in Dallas on 22nd November, 1963.
What tosh about the SNP linked with the US Government. As for the rest well fell asleep.
ReplyDeleteInconvenient facts.
DeleteThe US State Department’s International Visitors Leadership Program seeks to identify future potential leaders, and mentor them (its own mission statement).
SNP MPs, and MSPs who are alumni of the IVLP.
Humza Yousaf: identified as a “future potential leader” in his second year as a humble parliamentary aide for his MSP uncle. Must have impressed someone with his coffee making, and photocopying skills.
Jenny Gilruth: in Washington on an IVLP delegation, 35 working days after being sworn in as a rookie MSP. Recorded said trip in her Holyrood Register of Interests, but has subsequently deleted it.
Angela Crawley, and Patrick Grady, MPs: on the same delegation as Gilruth. Did not record trip on their Westminster Register of Interests. This despite the trip taking place while Westminster was in session. Apparently their plebeian constituents didn’t need to know what they were up to while they were on the clock.
Also for consideration:
Stewart McDonald MP for Glasgow South: attended Woodrow Wilson School for International Scholars, a de facto annex of the State Department housed at Princeton University.
Stephen Gethins prior to being hired as a SPAD for Alex Salmond, was employed by covert, US State Department political influencing outfit NGO LINKS, run out of the University of Arizona. NGO LINKS ran regime change operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. NGO LINKS also employed Catherine Smith, daughter of Labour leader John Smith, and senior MI6 officer, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.
It is gratifying that the cause of Scottish independence is a big tent which can accommodate many different opinions. That would include those who see no issue with the British state, other than its geographical scope. Should the ideology of this otherwise contented faction which disputes only the location of the international border prevail in a democratic, independent Scotland, then we can look forward to:
* Continued involvement in foreign, colonial wars.
* Journalists being arrested under terrorist legislation.
* Supine fealty to the transatlantic security state.
* Covert control by the Permanent State over who gets to stand for election.
* State security apparatus with a £400m budget (pro rata) to spy on its own citizens.
* Manipulation & control of MSM.
* Mass arrests of peaceful protesters under anti terror law.
* False flag operations to manipulate public opinion.
* Foreign intelligence agencies openly meddling in democracy.
And many other delightful features of the British state.
Plenty more facts where they came from. Unlike your good self, I do not deal in airy dismissal of arguments without offering any substantive evidence.
4.21 Unfortunately, the diehards will always turn a blind eye. Until we get real about what an Indy Scotland will look like (as you say, pretty much the same as now but with a customs post at Gretna), many will continue to believe in an unachievable Utopia.
DeleteYou were actually doing not too badly until your NGO links nonsense, with some actual facts in among your conspiratorial nonsense. Get out more, and stop relying for information and social contact on your fellow conspiracy theory crazies on the internet. Meet real people. Try and form relationships and have face to face discussions. Learn the reality of the day to day grind and overwhelming workload of actual government. And stop lifting buzz words and phrases from online info and sticking them in among your drivel. You fool no one other than yourself. You come across as sad and gullible. Happy to have helped. I’m not even going to render a fee note. Oh one last thing. Learn the difference between a fact and a factoid.
DeleteSo Swinney had a cosy chat with the BBC's Nick Robinson. Yes that's right the Robinson who lied on the BBC News in the run up to the 2014 referendum that Salmond did not reply to his question. The lie that sparked the protests at the BBC Scotland offices on the Clyde. A disgrace he even had anything to do with the ultra Britnat Robinson.
ReplyDeleteSwinney told Robinson that he would send troops to Ukraine if he was in charge of an independent Scotland.
Swinney was also happy to back the USA steal the Russian flagged oil tanker and risk the UK being involved in direct conflict with Russia.
Did Swinney ask Robinson why he lied about Salmond during the referendum?
Question for the Swinney lovers that troll SGP do you agree with Swinney? If you do you are as right wing as Trump ( Swinney's pal) the extortionist.
I've been supportive of the police in UK in some controvertial incidents but I dont understand how anyone believes that death was unavoidable.
ReplyDeleteA disgraceful excess taken. The women died for nothing and it was all so slowmo and avoidable. I truly think Wings has lost bearings somewhere. Not everything has to be political. Sometimes incompetence is just that. In this case leading to a killing
Opinium, Westminster voting intention conducted on behalf of the Sunday edition of the Vauxhall Cross Guardian, field work 7 - 9 Jan.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 11% lead, no change over last Opinium poll almost a month ago. Labour in 2nd place. Opinium are now only substantive polling company with Labour ahead of Tories.
Scottish sub-sample (125)
Con 10%, Lab 16%, LibDem 6%, SNP 27%, RefUK 31%, Green 10%.
The least said about this exercise in manipulation of public perception, the better.
James Harding’s handlers will long since have secured a future for him on the red benches of the HoL.
This morning’s latest psy op to be forced upon the British public, is the miraculous appearance of Reza Pahlavi.
ReplyDeleteThe Mail on Sunday goes as far as to refer to Pahlavi as “Iran’s leader in exile”.
The Sunday Times leads with a front page photo of a protester at the Iranian embassy in London holding the Lion & Sun, monarchist flag of Iran.
The Sunday Telegraph’s front page shows a picture of a solitary protester in Tehran holding a photo of the former Shah, and his wife. The rest of the crowd of protesters look on in bewilderment.
Ask yourself why, and how 65 year old Reza Pahlavi is now the man of the moment, after a life of well deserved obscurity. He has not featured in any of the previous attempts at a Colour Revolution (a pretty much dependable biennial event). Despite risible claims on Wiki, he appears to have zero support in Iran. I know a psy op when I see one.
I wouldn’t shed a solitary tear for the downfall of the Theocratic regime in Tehran. The Iranian people deserve better. The Iranian regime has been in a process of evolution since the 1980’s. The burqa is a very rare sight, in the towns, and cities at least. Shia Islam is not an inherently proscriptive faith (unlike the Wahhabi doctrine of our valued & trusted allies, and friends in the Gulf monarchies). The liberalising evolution taking place in Iran was retarded by the CIA (and others). The Ayatollahs have been able to cite foreign interference to bolster their own regime. State media in Iran is second only to North Korea in its crude, absolutist propaganda.
Regime change, and Colour Revolutions are an industry in America. Tens of thousands of jobs, and Billions of Dollars depend on its continued existence.
Absent CIA interference, Iran would now likely be a pluralistic, representative democracy, guided by religious faith, but not crushed by it. It would however still be a proud nationalist democracy, and its natural resources would not be in the hands of multinational corporations.
The Telegraph is the mouthpiece of the MoD, and the Security Services. It’s not the most reliable source of facts.
ReplyDeleteThis morning, it runs a side-bar; “Starmer in talks to send troops to Greenland”.
Has Kieth grown a pair of haw maws overnight? Is he proposing to assist Denmark in fighting off an American invasion? Nah, Kieth is proposing to use UK taxpayers money to garrison Greenland on America’s behalf.
British troops will guard Greenland from Russian, and Chinese invasion. Don’t laugh.
Trump’s move has nothing to do with a fictitious Russian, or Chinese threat, it’s a grab at mineral resources which Greenland demonstrably possesses.
Trump’s piracy’s will proceed not just with British, quiet, reluctant acquiescence, but now with its active support.
BBC kuensberg disgrace by bringing the dark Lord Mandelson to be interviewed on world affaires. No he wasn’t in a towelling robe. Obviously has pals in the bbc to try and resurrect his persona. That was lost long ago and even before the illegal Iraq war. BBC gets it wrong again. News management with even pro Israeli speaker. Pathetic
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