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Alex Salmond offers a masterclass in how to harm your enemies with surgical precision
Watching this luminary delivering a coup de grâce should have been shocking, but in these weird times the strangeness scarcely registered
26 February 2021 • 9:00pm
Friday felt like the first day of Spring; a glorious late-February afternoon promising blooming daffodils and the start of lambing. Yet amid these prelapsarian settings, a massacre was underway. I am speaking of Alex Salmond’s long-awaited testimony.
The scene of the carnage was not Glencoe but the Robert Burns Committee Room, though something far more Shakespearean was about to unfold.
Mr Salmond, despite his past travails, was no “cowering tim’rous beastie – more like Macduff plotting the overthrow of Lady Macbeth. At times we caught glimpses of simmering contempt worthy of the Godfather.