Yesterday, at long last, the directors at the BBC caved in to public pressure and called David Duguid – the Scottish Conservative and Unionist MP for Banff & Buchan – onto the show to answer some not-so tough questions. Considering the charges currently being laid against his party; that he and others received potentially illegal donations from a network of political associations set up and used so as to obfuscate the sources of the money, this was a brilliant opportunity for Gary Robertson to grill Mr Duguid and shed some much-needed light on this growing political scandal.
Scottish Independence Cancelled?
An interview with Nicola Sturgeon on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme managed to turn a slow news day into the complete and unconditional surrender of the Scottish independence movement. It was all rubbish of course, but good radio.