A dangerous fantasy

IF NICOLA Sturgeon truly wanted to solve the problems piling up in Scotland, as she forever claims, she would step outside the Nationalist echo chamber where cries of ‘Freedom’ endlessly reverberate. But she doesn’t – and she won’t.

Most Scots are anxious about the rocketing cost of living. Under the SNP’s lamentable leadership, education, the NHS and public transport have festered.

Yet the First Minister’s priority is, as always, plotting a referendum.

Attempting to break up the world’s most successful partnership might delight separatist zealots. For everyone else, it is a ruinous and dangerous fantasy.

◼ THE huge rise in the number of children suffering Type 2 diabetes is reaching terrifying proportions. Exacerbated by high levels of obesity and the cost of living squeeze, it risks a lifetime of ill-health. Of course, no parent purposely makes their child unhealthy. But this disease is wholly preventable – with a good diet and exercise.

◼ ASKED to explain Beergate, Sir Keir Starmer dissembled furiously. He faces a parliamentary sleaze probe into failures to register earnings properly. Now he is being evasive over who paid him thousands for legal advice while an MP. For someone who presents himself as Mr Honesty, doesn’t Labour’s leader often give the impression of being as straight as a corkscrew?