Kevin McKenna: The end can't come quickly enough for Humza Yousaf
Kevin McKenna offers his take on what could be the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf
Kevin McKenna offers his take on what could be the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf
Kevin McKenna talks to Fr Chiedozie Ezeribe, a Nigerian priest based at St Dominic's Church in Bishopbriggs, about his life her in Scotland and his work in Nigeria.
Climate protesters gather for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march in Glasgow in November 2021
WHEN Humza Yousaf took to the stage of Dundee’s Caird Hall on Tuesday to address STUC delegates, few among the audience were expecting the rafters to be in any immediate danger. Mr Yousaf’s speeches tend to be light on substance with an emphasis on old Nationalist barnacles that the passage of time and the changing of guards have failed to shift. At last month’s party conference he had pledged to rid Scotland of all Tories at the forthcoming Westminster election. How he planned to do this was left unsaid. Not that the party activists, straining to hide the spaces in a half-empty hall – like a short tee-shirt on a bouncer’s stomach – were caring.
Mr Yousaf couldn’t resist another outing for his favourite theme: how hateful Scotland has become. He reached out to “the everyday victims of hate crime” of which there are still “far too many”. Then it was on to those who “experience hate at work” or who are “victims of hatred”.
The most divisive and antagonistic debate in modern UK politics effectively started with a message of tolerance and hope. It was tweeted in December, 2019 by JK Rowling. “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
JIM SILLARS is recalling a visit he made to the Scottish Parliament for the unveiling of the portrait of his late wife, Margo MacDonald – warrior queen of Scottish Nationalism - by the renowned Scottish painter, Gerard Burns.
AN unintended consequence of the Scottish Government’s well-meaning Hate Crime Act has begun to trouble me. As the legislation has started to crumble, Scotland’s political elites have been deploying increasingly irascible language to defend it.
At 86, Jim Sillars is five years older than the American President yet his powers of recall, analysis and lucidity are characteristic of a man still in his prime.
Jim Sillars is telling me about the moment more than a decade ago when he came close to chucking his SNP membership in the bin.
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