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The Alex Salmond affair has shown Scotland at its worst Rather than shedding light on devolution’s darkest chapter, the Holyrood inquiry has done the opposite. ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images The former SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond leaves the High Court in Edinburgh on 23 March 2020 The Salmond affair has shown Scotland at its worst: a furtive, nervous, ankle-biter of a nation with an over-mighty government and an ineffective legislature, a kailyard of co...

1 February 2021 Obiter’s deep throat in Whitehall has revealed why departments are refusing to publish their submissions to the Faulks review. An overheard conversation at the Department of Administrative Affairs apparently went something like this (with apologies to Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, authors of Yes Minister): ‘Minister you will recall your insistence that, rather than merely adumbrating the current staff shortage at the Department of Administrative Affairs, the submission to th...

Celebrity by Bella Fowler   A BBC documentary aired in 1969 about royal life has become the latest source of Buckingham Palace angst after it wound up on YouTube this month. The infamous fly-on-the-wall film, Royal Family, which saw the royals eating from Tupperware and Prince Charles jet skiing topless was locked away from prying eyes in 1972 because it "cheapened the royal family", according to the Queen. However, the full 110-minute special, the makin...

Joseph Stalin In conclusion, QI believes that Thomas Nast deserves credit for the caption in his 1871 cartoon which was satirizing William Marcy Tweed. An efflorescence of sayings appeared subsequently. In 1877 “The Daily Examiner” of San Francisco attributed an instance to Zack Chandler, but QI conjectures that this attribution was based on political hostility. Boris Bazhanov in 1992 attributed an instance to Joseph Stalin, but there was a long time delay between when the remark was supp...