Iāve often considered MSPs in the Scottish parliament to be not much more than jumped up town councillors (mostly because Iām old enough to remember most of them being town councillors before the parliament existed) but this takes the biscuit from someone who was considered a serious candidate to succeed Nicola Sturgeon.
That MUST be a spoof, surely?
One would certainly hope so. That article seems to be carried by the Telegraph and the Spectator, two august journals who surely have no history of misreporting. Oh, hang onā¦
It was in the Glasgow Herald apparently but itās behind a paywall.
Hunter S Thompsonās a tricky one to pigeonhole. In his day āweā assumed he was āone of usā, but in retrospect he seems a harbinger of the current strand of US ultra libertarianism.
Ditto William Burroughsā¦
I probably wouldnāt pigeon-hole him, although coming out of what appears to be hippy drug culture, perhaps that shouldnāt be a surprise. But the observation seemed pithy and appropriate.
Iāve seen quotes and quips by a number of people that made good points, but whose politics and attitudes in other areas would make me run away.
Indeed - they say ānever meet your heroesā - I once met the astronomer Patrick Moore - lovely chap in general and of course fascinating to talk to about all things space-related - but my Gosh his political opinions made Attila the Hun look like a member of the Socialist Workerās Party. 
I rather suspect he just did that for the money. 
Although he did have a sense of humour old Patrick. He appeared on Morecambe and Wise and the Goodies, and even Doctor Who.
But isnāt that true of all politicians? The vast majority have to start somewhere, including the best as well as the worst of them, but if it was enough to ban them from senior office, we would have no senior officers. 
Indeed but many of them werenāt particularly good town councillors.
Maybe the fact that these people have never had a ārealā job is why their decisions are so often difficult to understand. Iād go further than @JohnH : sometimes it seems their thinking hasnāt matured since their gesture politics days running the SU. The recent examples include Sturgeonās strange obsession with transgender ideology, and the legislation about causing offence, which (it would now seem, as many people warned at the time) is unenforceable.
And kudos to whichever one of my photographic colleagues spotted the knob behind the knobā¦ 
I think it actually passes through the head and fixes him to his base plate.
Itās the stabiliser left over from the days of plate cameras. 