We’re thinking of just handing over Wings to Grok for the summer so we can spend all our time feeding the swans, readers.

At first, this merely sounds like the worst day out ever. But for supporters of independence, in fact it’s even grimmer than that.

The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad being run by Reform for the Hamilton by-election targeting Scottish Labour ...

One of the very few phrases universally recognised in Scotland but which will draw blank looks anywhere else in the UK is the dry, dark “Well, ye ken noo”. Until recently it had no equivalent that we ...

Hi! I noticed, with very considerable amusement, your complaint last night that I hadn’t made a “substantive reply” to the [EDIT] EIGHT posts (totalling nearly 11,000 words) of semi-coherent ranting ...

Social media was having a good chuckle at this earlier today. But as it turns out, it’s a bit more than just an embarrassment. There’s no law against a former First Minister and current MSP shilling ...

The deranged stalker who’s now posted 72 blogposts totalling 62,500 words attacking Wings in the last few years had another go last night, over this. And as a rule we don’t bother addressing them ...

Even by the embarrassing standards of The National, the gulf between this morning’s blaring front-page splash and the weak, watery weasel words in the actual article is a chasm so wide and so yawning ...

Because it’s Trannah Rodger so you probably already assumed it’s bollocks. SPOILER: you were right. Firstly, absolutely nobody’s “FLED” to anywhere. Jen Bell – who alert Wings readers may recall ...