April 10, 2023
Following the arrest of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell over questions relating to SNP finances, the house he shares with Nicola Sturgeon was subject to a thorough police search of the type usually reserved for mass murderers (2 days, 20 officers and a tent). Police also issued dire warnings to the public against discussing the case online due to the Contempt Of Court Act.
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April 3, 2023
The Herald actually used the phrase 'in-tray of doom' to describe the challenges facing incoming First Minister Humza Yousaf. It strikes me that much of that in-tray is being stoked by the Scottish media, whose culture of willing the Holyrood government to fail is all-pervasive.
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March 27, 2023
The people of France took to the streets to protest their government's decision to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64 (in the UK it's already 66 and rising). Amid scenes of violence and flames, and given the country's history of dealing with royals, President Emmanuel Macron made the eminently sensible decision to postpone a planned visit by Britain's new king and queen.
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March 20, 2023
As the SNP leadership contest moved into its third week and Peter Murrell announced his resignation as the party's chief executive, there was a sense of quiet glee emanating from the opposition branch managers.
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March 13, 2023
BBC Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker was suspended after comparing the government's illegal immigration bill to Germany in the 1930s. All the other football pundits stayed home in solidarity. At the same time the BBC refused to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough's latest wildlife programme over fears of a ‘rightwing backlash’.
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March 6, 2023
Whilst preparing his 'Pandemic Diaries', former Health Secretary Matt Hancock entrusted more than 100,000 official WhatsApp messages to his ghostwriter, journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who then passed them onto the Daily Telegraph, where the juicy bits were published. If only he could have seen that coming.
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February 27, 2023
Amidst a shortage of tomatoes, Environment secretary Therese Coffey suggested that eating turnips could help bridge the gap. Meanwhile Liz Truss, who had once said a no-deal Brexit would only affect a few farmers with turnips, warned that authoritarian regimes were trying to create a new world order. And Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab had previously been accused of hurling tomatoes in a fit of rage. The title is a quote from the Spitting Image sketch with Margaret Thatcher.
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February 20, 2023
In her resignation speech, outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for less irrationality and hysteria in politics. The media responded accordingly and this is a fair summary of what was printed and said, including a particularly grotesque cartoon and calling her 'Nicole'. Some are actual quotes.
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February 13, 2023
48 hours after promoting Lee Anderson to Conservative party vice-chair, Rishi Sunak had to rebuke him for supporting the death penalty. The Nottinghamshire MP also expressed delight at being voted “the worst man in Britain”. Meanwhile Sunak's cabinet reshuffle seemed designed to welcome only thoroughly odious individuals.
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February 6, 2023
Diminutive UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was interviewed by Piers Morgan (6' 1") and in photographs of the studio he appeared dwarfed, like a small child. That's all, really.
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