As I sit down to write this, there are just two hours and ten minutes of 2022 to go, so I'm not going to attempt a lengthy blogpost, but I don't think it should go completely unmentioned that the controversial journalist David Leask has sunk to yet another new low today by penning an article in the Herald which attempts in a deniable way to link Alex Salmond (and George Galloway for that matter) with anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies, something he would find impossible to justify if he said it more directly. The implied logic goes like this - a) there is a history of anti-Semitic Nazi sympathisers in Scotland, albeit mostly in Tory ranks, b) weasel words such as "globalist" are now used as a cover for anti-Semitism, c) "globalist" is also a word used by people who support Putin, d) unnamed politicians who we all know to be Mr Salmond and Mr Galloway presented shows on RT before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and e) this is all somehow connected.
You are a pathetic coward, Mr Leask. If you want, without a shred of evidence, to call Mr Salmond a Nazi sympathiser, an anti-Semite, or even one of the Scottish apologists for the invasion of Ukraine, by all means have the guts to try it and see how you get on in court.
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I'd just like to thank Scot Goes Pop readers for your continued support during 2022. November and December in particular have seen the highest monthly levels of traffic to the blog since the Holyrood election in spring 2021, probably due to the flurry of dramatic opinion polls we've had recently. I'll see you in 2023, and until then I'll just leave you with a crafty selfie I took at the door of Bute House last night. Who said we Alba folk would never reach The Gates Of Power?
To get a selfie at Number 10, you’ve got to make it over a fence and past the rozzers. Or a Tory bung, of course. That’s the difference between our nations, right there. Even with the door shut and no one listening…
ReplyDeleteHe's a filthy Brit - allowed the Brits to spew their usual Nazi crap, which however, rang rather given their racist Brexit stance.
ReplyDeleteLeask is an obvious asset of the British Security State. His connections with the Integrity Initiative and the spook infested, School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews are a matter of record.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Anglo-American Security State asset Stewart McDonald MP continues to be granted a platform in The Scotsman to propagate MI6 / CIA talking points. But McDonald is now an anonymous backbencher. What passes for a free press in this country is just an amalgam of propaganda mouthpieces for the Atlanticist permanent state.