Alex Salmond, RIP
“How you react to a moment as big as the death of a political titan like Alex says something about who you are as a person” my @HolyroodDaily column https://t.co/fI3fh0mboJ
— mandy rhodes (@holyroodmandy) October 27, 2024
I'm not one of Alex Salmond's cheerleaders or arch-critics, but Mandy Rhodes has some important things to say about his legacy in this thoughtful opinion piece for Holyrood Magazine.
"I don’t think there is a contradiction in a man who has admitted past bad behaviour towards women also believing that sex is immutable, and that women’s rights should be preserved, otherwise women may find allies in men hard to find.
"I don’t think you need to be a conspiracist to have serious questions about a Scottish Government process which has already been found to be flawed, penalties extracted, and information still withheld.
"And I don’t think you need to be a believer in deep state frame-ups to simply wonder who was the Scottish Government leak that gave a newspaper its splash on Salmond and is still to be identified."