OPINION

Putin’s retaliatory list is a badge of honour.

— Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been included on a list of politicians from the UK who have been sanctioned by Vladimir Putin’s regime and banned from ever visiting Russia again. Wee Ginger Dug explains what it means for Scotland.

OPINION

Reason Johnson is unfit for office number 9,999.

— Boris Johnson comparing the agonies of Ukraine with Brexit, claiming that both are examples of standing up for freedom, is a crass insult to crassness.

OPINION

British nationalism means power is never held to account.

— As you don’t agree to an out of court settlement if you are confident that you can win your case in a court of law, you just don’t give a prime minister the power of unaccountability.

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Westminster: Where it’s a bigger sin to call out a liar for lying than it is to lie.

— It is clear both that Boris Johnson will not go quietly and it is unlikely that backbench Tories will find enough of a collective spine to unseat him as they are desperate to move on from the Downing Street parties.

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Johnson is a symptom of a chronically sick Westminster.

— We were all suffering isolation for the greater good, in order to protect ourselves and our vulnerable friends and relatives, whilst Boris Johnson was himself ignoring the rules that the rest of us had to follow.

OPINION

Trapped between a rock and a party place.

— At this point in time, it might be easier for Boris Johnson to list the days when there wasn’t a booze-up in Downing Street.

OPINION

In Tory Britain, you never know what will happen yesterday.

— The UK is now at that critical point where it is about to slide into full-blown authoritarianism, presided over by an entitled clown.

OPINION

The perfect figurehead for a corrupt and unreformable Westminster.

— What the Tories are getting with Boris Johnson is precisely what they should have expected they were going to get. He’s incapable of change and as such is a perfect figurehead for a corrupt and shambolic Westminster which is incapable of reform.

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The moral vacuum that is Johnson’s Westminster.

— The eyes of the world saw a British Government desperately trying to evade democratic scrutiny and oversight as it helped to water down vital resolutions on the future of the planet. The Conservatives have trashed the UK’s international reputation.

OPINION

Shining a light on Tory dark money.

— In the next independence referendum campaign, the Conservatives and their anti-independence allies will flood Scotland with billboard campaigns and social media advertising paid for with dark money sourced outside Scotland.