Time for a week off.

Poor Humza Yousaf. He can pretend the election is all about independence but pandering to the flag-botherers is another example of poor judgement. It’s not all his fault - hello, Peter! - but that’s not the point.
thetimes.co.uk/article/e45c9e…

Poor Humza Yousaf. He can pretend the election is all about independence but pandering to the flag-botherers is another example of poor judgement. It’s not all his fault - hello, Peter! - but that’s not the point.
thetimes.co.uk/article/e45c9e…

Yousaf asks the modest crowd on George Square 'how many times have we gathered here in defiance of Westminster rule?' to which - since they have always been entirely free to gather there - the answer is 'none'.

This is appalling. And enraging. And shaming.
(I appreciate the police have a difficult job but, come on, this is disgraceful.)

*Insert Tweet about contempt of court here, please*

A political class as pusillanimous as it is risible: column on the Scottish parliament and the Cass Review.
thetimes.co.uk/article/ed1438…

Remember:
*You* are waging a 'culture war'.
*We* are rational and progressive and on the right side of history.

Strong Oscar Wilde on the death of Little Nell vibe here.

Wednesday’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ cartoon thetimes.co.uk/article/morten…

I take back everything I’ve said

Oh yes it will. It is, in fact, the only thing that can.

Well if this don’t gast your flabber, what could?

Today’s Guardian. I’m amazed such fierce ideological opponents could even sit at the same table.

Next week: sparks fly as someone who thinks the phase-in periods in the WTO fisheries subsidies agreement are too long meets someone who thinks they’ve got the balance about right.