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Wings Over Scotland isn’t the only website dedicated to verifying the truthfulness of things claimed by politicians and media pundits. There’s the widely-respected and diligent FullFact.org, Scotland’s own The Ferret, and there’s...

The salaries of senior executives in charge of a widely-criticised Scottish health board have kept rising while they made severe cuts to services.Payments to the chief executive of NHS Highland...

This was the Scottish Tories two years ago, when Scotland’s economy registered a small downturn for a single quarter, which was definitely the SNP’s fault: Shall we find out what...

Plans to restart two cracked and ageing reactors at Hunterston in north Ayrshire have again been delayed as operators struggle to convince regulators they are safe.EDF Energy, the French company...

By Russell Bruce For millennia people have moved across continents for work, wars and invasions, for religious reasons, for education in European universities and to a large extent for trade...

Hackers have brought down the computer system at Scotland’s only immigration detention centre prompting an investigation by Police Scotland, The Ferret can reveal.The cyber attack took place more than six...

As we all know, an individual Scottish subsample from a GB-wide voting intention poll is rarely of much use, except as a straw in the wind when there's absolutely nothing...

Several media outlets today relate a story from BBC Scotland’s fascinating three-part documentary of the indyref, revealing that secret UK government polling in the first week of September 2014 gave Yes a lead...

Film footage of heather moorland on fire belching clouds of smoke across the Cairngorms has sparked fierce criticism of sporting estates.Landowners and gamekeepers burn patches of heather to help boost...

Dr Craig Dalzell of the Common Weal is a very sharp guy we’ve run several pieces by on Wings, and he’s currently appearing all over the place with a highly accessible and...