SO LONG TO SCOTTISH SIX

DEVASTATING news that the ‘Scottish Six’ has gone to the great TV schedule in the sky.

The proposed BBC bulletin, pet project of the SNP, would have replaced the UK evening news with a Glasgow-based programme. Why were the Nats so keen on it? Well, they’re known for their support of journalism but mostly because it’s the sort of broadcast you’d expect to see in an independent country.

The Nationalist cognoscenti is distraught that their cause failed to capture the public’s imagination. A candlelit vigil is planned outside Waitrose on Byres Road. No flowers.

The separatists wail about London calling the shots – who knew the ‘sovereign will of the Scottish people’ extended to teatime telly? – but it’s really the viewers who made this decision. They don’t want a Scottish Six. They don’t mind hearing English accents on the news. What they mind is the BBC wasting precious resources on a sop to the SNP.