For 10 years in Germany between 1935 and 1945, Jewish people were not legally human. The Nuremberg Laws, drafted in large part by Wilhelm Stuckart, established the principle in law that Jews were to be denied any rights on the basis that they were untermensch, a German word literally meaning “subhuman”.
It would be, to say the least, highly controversial for anyone to put forward in 2025 the idea that Jewish people had actually ceased to be human beings during that period, even though the various laws had been passed by a legitimately-elected government in peacetime and attracted little in the way of international condemnation.
The truth is that regardless of what the law said, Jewish people remained humans for the whole time, which is why Nazi war criminals were tried after the war for “crimes against humanity”. The passing of a law had had absolutely no effect on their biological reality. (Other than that it led to millions of them being murdered, of course.)
But anyway. Nicola Sturgeon.
Is the above how she imagined her feminist legacy, do you think, readers?
The wild thing about this poll isn’t the headline that six months after winning a massive landslide majority, Keir Starmer now trails Nigel Farage – leader of a party with five MPs to Starmer’s 411 – as the electorate’s choice for best Prime Minister.
It’s the little grey numbers sitting quietly at the bottom.
Y’know, maybe we were a little harsh on the lads at Holyrood Sources yesterday when we implied that a more direct and aggressive interviewing style might have cut through John Swinney and Kate Forbes’ pathetically feeble waffling evasion on the SNP’s lack of an independence strategy in their recent podcast.
But the closest thing (along with Colin Mackay at STV) that the Scottish media has left to a proper Rottweiler interviewer – Peter Adam Smith of ITV – had a shot at that five years ago and didn’t do any better.
Smith noted that even back in 2019 Nicola Sturgeon had been droning on about how Westminster’s refusal to grant a second indy referendum was “unsustainable” for two years already. But no matter how hard he pressed, Sturgeon just kept on glibly and smugly insisting that they’d concede.
“The UK government strategy is to say no. Do you have a way around it?”
“My strategy is to say yes.” [smirks]
Readers might be forgiven for wondering how long it’s going to take the SNP to accept that that “strategy” is a failure, if seven years and three First Ministers isn’t enough for them to have worked it out. But as long as the pathologically gullible keep voting for them anyway, we suppose they have no reason to.
While we get on with some tinkering behind the scenes in the absence of any Scottish political news – we have an exciting new comment system and the Contact form finally works again! – readers may wish to enjoy the full marathon three-and-a-quarter hours of last month’s fun indyref anniversary event at the Glasgow Science Centre.
In many ways, the fabricated, hysterical furore of Humza Yousaf Vs Elon Musk is the ultimate in summer-silly-season politics stories.
Absurdly plainly, the former First Minister ISN’T going to take any legal action against the billionaire owner of Twitter. He only likes bullying small nurseries, and even then he doesn’t follow through. He didn’t even sue us for calling him racist a few months ago, so there’s zero chance he’s going to square up to the world’s richest man.
We’ve been off for a little break in the country, and as far as we can tell we’ve missed absolutely nothing in the moribund world of Scottish politics. We did, however, arrive back just in time for something mildly interesting, or at least revealing.
It’s the latest episode of a new podcast by veteran Scottish political journalist and broadcaster Bernard Ponsonby and jobbing opinion columnist Alex Massie, inventively titled The Ponsonby And Massie Podcast.
The first 35 minutes or so weren’t very noteworthy, other than the curious omission – when predicting the makeup of the next Scottish Government – of the idea of a Labour-SNP coalition, which to this site remains by far the most practical and logical outcome of the 2026 Holyrood election.
Dan on The Final Robbery: “A Reform supporter living in England would come out with such simplistic shite though… It’s a pity so many Scots…” May 25, 18:45
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “Scotland is now in the big league of corrupt one party states.” May 25, 18:20
Run The Border on The Final Robbery: “<<>> I’m a soft-core yoon. I disagree with that. The UK is going bankrupt, the Labour government can’t organise a…” May 25, 18:19
twathater on The Final Robbery: “The fact that the wee ugly inside and out poisoned dwarf is still parading about with her lesbian train, unconcerned…” May 25, 18:05
Skip_NC on The Final Robbery: “The 400,000 Murrell admitted to thieving is almost certainly part of the 600,000. The rest of it was probably spent…” May 25, 18:04
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “There lies the problem, who do you trust? I really don’t like SF but some how I reckon if he…” May 25, 17:52
David Ferguson on The Final Robbery: ““Since despite this strident yet self-evident lie Beattie was released without charge, we must assume that he is innocent of…” May 25, 17:49
Andy Wiltshire on The Final Robbery: “Hey Rev, has anyone (except on here) given you any credit at all over this? I certainly haven’t seen any.” May 25, 17:46
duncanio on The Final Robbery: “You are correct, my oversight. The other two were arrested and then released without charge. But I think my point,…” May 25, 17:46
James Barr Gardner on The Final Robbery: “Michael Paterson, 59, pled guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh of embezzling funds of £1,087,444.47. from Aberdeen City Council…” May 25, 17:45
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “You would think so. Plus the video of her telling people not to question the finances; is that not effectively…” May 25, 17:35
Minceheid on The Final Robbery: “The only problem with replacing Swinney is, who do you install in his place? It’s not as if there’s a…” May 25, 17:22
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “If only the Muppets had been investigated as much as Mr Farage. This would never have happened. This would never…” May 25, 17:07
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “Ok @Fakename. Never by a second hand car.” May 25, 17:05
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Joanna Cherry has called for John Swinney to be replaced as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP. Swinney…” May 25, 17:04
Gordy on The Final Robbery: “Perhaps he fancies being bummed senseless in the showers in the bar L” May 25, 16:57
agentx on The Final Robbery: ““Lynsey Bews BBC Scotland political correspondent The list of items bought by Murrell also includes DVDs of the first few…” May 25, 16:50
sam on The Final Robbery: “Yes, fat finger. He began embezzling in August 2010, as far as the charges made show,. I was curious that…” May 25, 16:50
robertkknight on The Final Robbery: “And….. Rev Stu… you’re a credit to your profession, unlike so many lazy barstewards whose dead tree scrolls aren’t worth…” May 25, 16:50
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Both my wife and I regularly donated to SNP and Indyref2.” May 25, 16:49
Effijy on The Final Robbery: “The marital home must be worth about £450,000 so he would get half of the equity. If the mobile home…” May 25, 16:48
Ex President Xiden on The Final Robbery: “Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney, Colin Beattie, Kirsten Oswald, Murray Foote, David Leask, Tom Gordon, Mike Russell, Callum Steele, Pete Wishart,…” May 25, 16:46
Alf Baird on The Final Robbery: “Well, postcolonial theory (Fanon) warns us that a dominant national party elite that has been ‘co-opted by colonialism’ quickly opts…” May 25, 16:46
Insider on The Final Robbery: “Mark Beggan says: 25 May, 2026 at 4:39 pm “The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out…” May 25, 16:43
Al-Stuart on The Final Robbery: “. Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu., I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is…” May 25, 16:42
Insider on The Final Robbery: ““Mickey Mouse First Minister Mickey Mouse Governing Party Mickey Mouse Parliament Mickey Mouse Judiciary Overall… A big black rat infested…” May 25, 16:41
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: ““The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out but it ain’t going anywhere…”” May 25, 16:39
agentx on The Final Robbery: “Nemisis Benn says:Jeremy Thorpe admitting all sorts of things under oath knowing that he would be immune from future prosecution…” May 25, 16:32
Al-Stuart on The Final Robbery: “. Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu., I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is…” May 25, 16:30
agentx on The Final Robbery: ““The 18 June polls in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry have been triggered after the two MPs in…” May 25, 16:28
