Prof Pennington retired in 2003, 17 years ago, chaired the Wishaw E-coli investigation in 1997 and was last employed as an enquiry chair, 15 years ago, in the South Wales E-coli outbreak of 2005.

Yet, the prof, top member of the pro-Union group, Scotland Matters, is regularly wheeled out by BBC Scotland and the Herald to blame the Scottish Government for something. Here he is saying they’re wrong with their worst-case prediction of 80% Coronavirus infection.

Have you seen any other virology prof in our media? Me neither. Is that because there are none? Has the SNP betrayed the Scottish people by preventing recruitment of new virology profs?

Well, no, there are at least four I can find easily online. There’s at least one each in the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling. There’s even a new one at Aberdeen who must be getting pretty fed up with the old man stealing the limelight after 17 years retired.

What is prof Pennington’s appeal to the Scottish media, we wonder?