Wings Over Scotland | Fear And Favour

This is what it looks like, if you’ve ever wondered.

It’s the police’s own version of a seven-hour “no comment” interview.

Let’s just remind ourselves of that letter of 20 August, because it was a pretty significant and serious piece of professional correspondence to have been tossed away in three sentences.

To which the response of Police Scotland – a public service paid for by, and theoretically answerable to, the people of Scotland – is essentially “Meh, whatever”. The sheer lack of respect, the lazy contempt, not for Wings or even our lawyer but for the electorate who pay their wages, is frankly nauseating. They couldn’t even be bothered to deliver it within the 14 days.

The reply leaves pretty much no option but to go ahead with applying for the judicial review, which our legal team is now working on. It’s a complicated process of several stages but we’ll keep you posted as it develops. (We may need to call on you for some support, but that remains to be seen.)

The one thing that’s certain is that Scotland deserves better than this, and if nobody but us is going to act to make that happen, then so be it.