“We was robbed!” And it’s disaster for Wee Krankie… In the pervasive World Cup argot, Argentina was not the only recent victim of a severe drubbing: Nicola Sturgeon’s Indyref2 ambitions were red-carded by the referees on the Supreme Court – all five of them. Unlike the Argentine disaster, Krankie’s 5-0 defeat was hardly a turn-up for the bookies; no verdict in any court of law was ever less surprising.

SNP WhatsApp messages from pandemic deleted
The Covid inquiry has asked for senior SNP politicians’ informal messages from during the pandemic – but almost all have been wiped.