Britain’s narrow escape from the Sturgeon-Murrell regime

At the height of the Covid crisis, the pair thought the SNP's moment had come

To understand how thoroughly corrupted Scotland’s public life became under Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party it helps to watch a video filmed by one of the nation’s broadcasters (I was going to say state broadcaster) six years ago this week in May 2020. Scottish children were recorded leaving messages saying “thank you” to Sturgeon “for always keeping us safe”.

The North Korean-style video featured the following message, underpinned by soft piano music that might as well have been recorded in Pyongyang:

“The children of Scotland would like to say thank you - to Nicola, our First Minister of Scotland. We are so grateful. Thank you for always keeping us safe. Working so hard. For being strong for us. Thank you for caring for every individual life and for always thinking about the children of Scotland. Thank you, Nicola.”

A lot of people went slightly nuts during the Covid crisis and the British media got the cultural infection, as opposed to the medical infection, bad. The STV video script was written by persons unknown at the channel and was swiftly deleted after complaints, because it had, a spokesman for the channel said, failed to live up to STV’s high standards of impartiality.

A lot of crazy stuff happened in particular over the course of that weird week or so in May 2020. On 25 May that year, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s erstwhile guru was dragged into holding a press conference in the Downing Street garden following revelations a few days before that he as one of the architects of “lockdown” had traveled to County Durham and Barnard Castle in breach of the (let’s face it) mad rules then pertaining in Britain, rules that Cummings had helped initiate and impose.