COMMENT Ruth Wishart: John Swinney must be more than just likeable to reinvigorate SNP
IN the end, the SNP went for the BOGOF option – buy one, get one free.
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Journalist and broadcaster Ruth Wishart has won many awards for her columns over the years. She writes mainly about Scottish and UK politics, but also covers American elections, and a diverse range of social issues. Glaswegian born and bred, she currently lives in Argyll.
Journalist and broadcaster Ruth Wishart has won many awards for her columns over the years. She writes mainly about Scottish and UK politics, but also covers American elections, and a diverse range of social issues. Glaswegian born and bred, she currently lives in Argyll.
IN the end, the SNP went for the BOGOF option – buy one, get one free.
IF you didn’t know before, ye ken noo – “hell hath no fury like a party scorned”...
YOU just know the jig is up when fully paid-up groupies are saying to the Tories, in essence, “in the name of God just go".
ARE the arts underfunded? Yes! Is their potential impact not understood properly? You better believe it! Are the funding models we use adequate? Not entirely. But it’s not their fault either.
THEY say that if you’re in danger of drowning, your entire life flashes before you. It felt a bit like that watching the Holyrood Sources event devoted to 25 years of devolution. The trio behind the eponymous podcast certainly assembled a fascinating cast list. All those familiar faces from the politics of yesteryear.
PAOLA died last Wednesday morning. She knew the time of her death in advance, having arranged to go to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. She knew too she had options – options that many people who don’t have the considerable sums of money needed to follow her example do not.
EVEN Michael Gove at his most sleekit was stumped. Introducing new “guidelines” on extremism, he was uncharacteristically lost for words when asked to describe what that actually was.
THE reviews are in and they’re mainly positive. By common consent, Joe Biden came out swinging in a State of the Union address which most folks characterised as the opening shot in his presidential campaign.
THAT was some week, that was. On both sides of the Border, questions are rightly being asked about how police officer Wayne Couzens ever got into their force.
YOU don’t have to have Higher maths – and I don’t – to work out that even if every Westminster seat was won by a nationalist, their influence would be minimal.
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