Sadly, this turned out to be prescient this morning.
Laura Kuenssberg did give Nicola Sturgeon an uncomfortable time in their interview on her Sunday programme on BBC News, but when confronted with the one gaping open goal that Sturgeon has no answer for – and even when Sturgeon TWICE set it up on a plate for her – Kuenssberg failed to knock the ball into the empty net.
That doesn’t – by some distance – mean there was nothing of interest to note, though, so let’s take a walk through (the first instalment of) what was said.
Now that Nicola Sturgeon is finally free of her gruelling MSP workload, which could give her anything up to two extra hours of spare time a week, she might like to start making a proper dent in the contents of her fully-loaded bookshelves.
The multi-statement meltdown that has been the unravelling of Nicola Sturgeon this week has been quite something to behold. Last night, for example, we swear our Twitter feed presented these two tweets one after the other.
We’ll be honest with you, readers, if we were in a situation where a lawyer was issuing statements for us, this isn’t what we’d want to hear.
“If my client had been charged, she’d be in prison right now” is a worrying distance short of a vote of confidence in your client’s innocence.
But the statement Aamer Anwar put out for Nicola Sturgeon last night – her FOURTH in 48 hours, despite saying on Monday morning that she’d be making no further comment on the Peter Murrell case – had rather more wrong with it than even that.
So, having made a statement on Monday morning which asserted that she wouldn’t make any further statements, then making another statement on Monday afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon and her solicitor issued a third statement in 36 hours last night.
And while we acknowledge that this is a very high bar to clear, it contained one of the most troubling and blatant lies she’s ever told.
And as the Nicola Sturgeon Loyal, led by her most faithful of lieutenants, set out to try to take control of the post-conviction narrative, let’s take a look at just what a boatload of bare-faced bullshit the above is.
There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us will ever know what really happened. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
Despite what you or we might think, in the eyes of the Scottish Football Association this ISN’T a pitch invasion. This is simply what a football match in progress looks like.
Because according to the absolutely extraordinary statement they’ve released this evening, that was game time. The clock was still running, nothing was being added to account for the fact that there were thousands of thugs rampaging across the field, and the game was still happening in that moment, until it was ended four seconds later.
The image below is a graph illustrating how many seats each party won in last week’s supposedly “proportional” Scottish Parliament election, compared to how many they would have won if the electoral system had been actually proportional.
The SNP and Greens are now over-represented by 37% and 50% respectively, while the Unionist parties are all under-represented compared to their vote share by (left to right) 26%, 19%, 20% and 23%.
The Additional Member System has failed very badly at its job, from either perspective. “Pro-indy” parties have 73 seats (57%) rather than the 52 seats that their 40.8% vote share should have earned, while Unionist parties have 56 seats (or 43%) when they should have 69 for their 56% of the vote.
(The other 4% of the vote was scattered among 24 other parties or independents, with 1.8% going to identifiably pro-independence candidates, increasing the total “pro-indy” vote to 42.6%, fully 10 points short of current polling for independence itself.)
It is, therefore, a little bit of a stretch – to put it mildly – to present the refusal of the UK government to grant a second independence referendum on the basis of the results as an outrage against “democracy”. Indeed, if any outrage against democracy has taken place, it happened last Thursday.
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Another interesting article from Robin McAlpine about the Murrell case. He writes about: “the delays that pushed an open-and-shut case…” Jun 10, 09:18
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “An interesting read: https://unherd.com/2026/06/land-of-milk-and-silicon/ Some nations thrive. Others wither. The wise put aside their prejudices and endeavour to find out…” Jun 10, 08:36
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Jeezo, YL. Hoo mony times hae ye been telt? Dinna post onything afore the voices in yer heid kick in…” Jun 10, 08:28
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Quite right, Rob. Every time you see somebody on the ground, getting the shit kicked out of them, you mind…” Jun 10, 07:41
Young Lochinvar on The Ever-Changing Lie: “HMcH Fash not, Tricky Nicky gave an official apology so your ancestors can rest in peace. Interesting that the worst…” Jun 10, 01:02
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Ever-Changing Lie: “« One of the most remarkable legal consultations in the history of Western jurisprudence: In the winter of 1628-9, in…” Jun 9, 23:47
Young Lochinvar on The Massive Face Of Truth: “HMcH “Stick” of rock.. Hahahahahaha! 🙂 How very very English of you! You’ll be calling the floor the ground and…” Jun 9, 23:40
Rob on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Murrell could not have “stolen” the fund, it was missing before he started stealing anything more than a few grand.…” Jun 9, 23:21
diabloandco on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I think you mean ‘reparation’rather than ‘retribution’ I will be happy to see retribution on all concerned.” Jun 9, 20:57
100%Yes on The Ever-Changing Lie: “News just in!! Its official all form of communication has been dealt with by a Leprechaun and its through the…” Jun 9, 20:46
Saffron Robe on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Quite so, Alf. As Steve Biko said, “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”” Jun 9, 20:35
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Any accountants reading? Perhaps you could work out the compound interest that would have accrued if the money had really…” Jun 9, 19:39
Chas on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Nobody writes as much shite as you Alfie Boy. What a talent you have!” Jun 9, 19:38
Insider on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Alf says…. “A key impact of the pathology associated with colonial oppression, the ‘colonial mindset’, is regarded as ‘a disease…” Jun 9, 19:36
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “One of history’s most often repeated mis-quotes. He was, of course, referring to Sunlight soap, invented in 1884. In 1918,…” Jun 9, 19:28
Dan on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I think either would have a fair to middling better chance of telling us, rather than our own Crown office…” Jun 9, 19:27
Mark Beggan on The Ever-Changing Lie: “The Left wing mindset begins with a lack of personal hygiene. An uncomfortable urge to stick your nose into everything…” Jun 9, 19:17
Ex President Xiden on The Ever-Changing Lie: “There is more than that missing since Murrel started his thievery before the ‘ring fenced’ donations were taken in.” Jun 9, 19:14
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Prior to colonisation, thousands of Scots women practiced witchcraft. At least, thousands of Scots women were dispatched in the most…” Jun 9, 19:04
BigJay on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I’ve just been reading about Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941). What a fascinating life he led. Who, you may ask? Well,…” Jun 9, 19:04
Mark Beggan on The Ever-Changing Lie: “You need to refer to fanny the financial commissar” Jun 9, 19:00
Oneliner on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I’m fairly sure there would have been some parochial rape / murder / pillage on the Viking model. Although ‘hung;…” Jun 9, 18:09
Hatey McHateface on The Massive Face Of Truth: “Well, well, YL, you’ve surprised me again. First, for not knowing it’s a stick of rock. Second, for not having…” Jun 9, 18:03
crazycat on The Ever-Changing Lie: “They can identify them; when I sent them 2 reference numbers for donations I made in 2017, they knew that…” Jun 9, 17:56
Hatey McHateface on The Massive Face Of Truth: “Does he say what kind of vehicle? Surely the campervan will be coming up at auction soon.” Jun 9, 17:50
Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Who’s best to tell us where the missing money is, then, Alf? Cesaire, or Memmi?” Jun 9, 17:47
John Cleary on The Ever-Changing Lie: “And that is why you will never get her. It’s a protection racket. The racket collapses when it fails to…” Jun 9, 17:45
robertkknight on The Ever-Changing Lie: “For the sake of shits’n’giggles… Let us look at what that “quote” says… “We’ll use the money for the purpose…” Jun 9, 17:39
