Hardcore huntress? More like horrendous human
In the very week that our Highlands and islands were listed by Lonely Planet in the world’s top 10 destinations, an American TV presenter was showing off her own Scottish adventure: A killing spree on Islay.
The irony is awful but the images are unbearable.
Larysa Switlyk calls herself a “hardcore huntress”. What I’d call her isi unprintable in a family newspaper. She’s the dead-eyed creature posing with a beautiful mountain goat she slaughtered for fun, by the way. Or next to a magnificent stag she “felled”.
MSP Mike Russell is determined to put a stop to such hunts. Do it fast, before Switlyk and her ilk destroy the wild beauty that draws respectable tourists who only shoot with cameras.
And pride comes from the reason for the protest: Equality. What brought them out wasn’t self-interest. It was injustice. Institutionalised injustice at that.
What happened to these women in being denied the same pay as equivalent male workers was just plain wrong.
Glasgow City Council leader, the SNP’s Susan Aitken, seemed personally wounded by the decision of so many to take industrial action.
She was “not entirely sure why this strike is taking place” because the council she heads are working towards a solution, a negotiated settlement by the end of the year.
Here’s the thing, though. As any schoolkid who ever tried to pinch an extra slice of caramel shortcake knows, even the most tolerant of dinner ladies have a breaking point. And sorry, Ms Aitken, but this is it.
TTo be fair to her, even the “promise” of