If you think Scotland’s cultural elite can’t get any more stupid, think again. The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht has been banned from the National Library’s centenary exhibition, despite winning a place, because it was deemed harmful by some staff. Blatant censorship.

One bit of good news from the National Library of Scotland...

It’s probably for the best that JD Vance didn’t choose to holiday in Scotland. What with the attacks on women’s rights and freedom of speech in government-funded institutions.

The LGBT staff network at the National Library of Scotland threatened management to force them to ban The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheest from their centenary exhibition.

It’s no wonder so many companies and public bodies are tying themselves in knots over the issue of single sex spaces when they are receiving legal advice that is this spectacularly wrong. ThisIsntWorkingPodcast

“If Frankly is anything to go by, then, strictly speaking Sturgeon never did have imposter syndrome. To have that particular malaise, your nagging suspicion you aren’t really up to the task has to be wrong.”

Four years ago today the Taliban retook Afghanistan and began their oppression of women. In a special edition of The Frontline, Afghan women and girls speak out. It is an essential read. The Frontline WDI.Afghanistan frontlinewomen.substack.com

We are dismayed that The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht has been excluded from National Library of Scotland’s “Dear Library” exhibition on discriminatory grounds. We have written to the National Library’s Chief Executive and Chair warning that the library risks legal action from thousands of people.

A brave Iranian woman stood her ground and refused to wear Hijab when being harassed by lslamic regime sharia police! “You can’t force me to wear a Headscarf, I’ll pull off your Hijab.” “Go to hell with your laws.”

Now this could be interesting…

Where are the headlines? This mother in Iran is about to be hanged and I really feel helpless seeing silence from the big names, the anti-war activists in the West, the feminist leaders, the so-called free world leaders. Her only “crime”? Fighting for freedom and dignity for her

“And coming up later we’ll be hearing from Mr Quixote about his plan to tilt at a windmill…”

this bollocks again so for the avoidance of doubt: (a) they are not acquiring ownership of any land in scotland; (b) consequently there is no entitlement to call yourself "Lord" based on ownership of land in Scotland (even if that was a thing...) (c) any thetimes.com/article/fa6263…

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“Frankly, I’ve had a couple of years to come up with an explanation of where the £600,000 went and the camper van but I just don’t recall. Apart from the stuff in the book. That’s all true.”

Finally, this filters through to the pages of Private Eye. Well done lads…