Chris Musson

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HUMZA Yousaf moaned about Nicola Sturgeon taking a “hatchet” to his “awful” NHS turnaround plan, newly released WhatsApp texts reveal. The then-First Minister told her Health Secretary she was “furious” about the document — just days before she praised it in public. The plan, meant to spark the service’s pandemic recovery, was later described by critics as a “flimsy pamphlet” while experts hit out over its “worrying gaps”.

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WHAT are we meant to think when many of those we’ve been told are the goodies are revealed as the baddies? The aftermath of that Supreme Court judgement has underlined how the likes of Nicola Sturgeon led a nation up the garden path with her good-versus-evil gender wars. A great deal of the “goodies” in this new reality peddled by officialdom have disgraced themselves following the ruling nearly a fortnight ago which clarified that ‘sex’ in equality law means biological sex.

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VOTES at 16 are back on the agenda after the Prime Minister vowed to push ahead with allowing kids to go to the polls in general elections — starting from the next one. Now, I hear you ask . . . Why would a leader who’s plummeted in the polls want to extend the franchise to 1.5million youngsters who tend to lean towards his party’s traditional brand of politics? Lowering the voting age from 18 is a path we’ve already trodden in Scotland, to a limited extent.

1 month ago | thescottishsun.co.uk | Chris Musson

JOHN Swinney was told by aides to heap praise on Donald Trump’s business empire in secretive talks with his son Eric - despite officials saying they couldn't back up the firm’s Scottish job claims. The First Minister was urged to parrot a script hailing the “valuable contribution” of Trump International to Scotland’s economy and said this was “greatly appreciated”, newly released documents reveal.

1 month ago | thescottishsun.co.uk | Chris Musson

SCOTLAND needs to get healthier or faces a budget black hole of up to £14billion a year in the decades to come. Independent forecasters revealed our ageing population means unaffordable levels of NHS spending with Holyrood ministers set for huge cash shortfalls in the 45 years from 2030. But the Scottish Fiscal Commission said the grim scenario could be greatly improved - or even reversed - if Scotland boosts its healthy life expectancy, which has consistently been lower than England’s.