Bully Boys 189
Posted on
January 13, 2024 by
Chris Cairns
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The Broken Mike 477
Posted on
January 06, 2024 by
Ellen Joelle Dalzell
Mike Russell, currently at the centre of controversy over his appointment as chair of the Scottish Land Commission, hit the political big stage during Scotland’s first ever SNP administration under Alex Salmond, whom, in turn, Mike had previously seen into office as Salmond’s campaign manager.
In 2007 he was appointed as Minister for Environment, then in 2009 he became the Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution, and his conventional ministerial career concluded when he went on to replace Fiona Hyslop as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until the end of 2014.
Following the 2014 independence vote, the pre-referendum era ended with Salmond’s dignified (albeit temporary) stage exit; Nicola Sturgeon took the helm and began to reform what had been left to her by her predecessor.
A core pillar of Sturgeon’s centrist reform was the construction of an almost entirely opaque ivory tower of power from which both SNP and the state would run their covert affairs with subversive, centralizing, strong-arm granularity, cleverly camouflaging its sinister implications from the public through cult-of-personality media management.
Instrumental in this, among a very few select others, was Mike Russell.
The Abyss 352
Posted on
December 31, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s rather apt that this happened on the last day of the calendar. Because it truly is the rock-bottom moment in the grotesquely sullied history of the Scottish National Party.
We’ve heard that line somewhere before, haven’t we?
Crimes and punishment 284
Posted on
December 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, this’d bring a tear to a glass eye.
Yeah, whatever DID happen to that?
News Of The World 85
Posted on
December 15, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Everything Changes But You 508
Posted on
December 10, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Less than six months passed between these two comments.
And the weird thing is that the strategy in both cases was/is the exact same. Huh.
The Devil And The Pastel Pink Sea 155
Posted on
December 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, imagine our surprise.
There was very little realistic prospect of any other outcome, particularly in light of the same judge – Lady Haldane – ruling last month that the definition of “woman” was not limited to biological reality.
In doing so she placed it beyond any credible dispute that the Scottish Government’s proposed Gender Recognition Reform Act did indeed impinge on equality law reserved to the UK government, because the rules on who constituted a legal man or woman would have been different in Scotland and England.
But what now for poor beleaguered Humza Yousaf?
