Seriously, I’ve been trying to stay out this for some time now but has Joanna Cherry just thanked Susan Dalgety and quoted Madeleine Albright?
Sheesh, ok, Madeleine First:
In that now-iconic interview, veteran journalist Lesley Stahl questioned Albright – then the US ambassador to the United Nations – on the catastrophic effect the rigorous US sanctions imposed after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait had on the Iraqi population.
“We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” asked Stahl, “And, you know, is the price worth it?”
“I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-madeleine-albright-as-who-she-really-was#:~:text=The%20former%20US%20Secretary%20of,’democracy%20and%20human%20rights’.
Nuff said?
Susan Dalgety? Jack McConnell’s spad, discussed here a few times:
She wrote this:
‘Mediocre background? a New Labour snob.
From November 2020:
Nicola Sturgeon’s approval rating among young women is higher than among young men but is lowest among older women, lower than among older men. I can’t find the poll telling this, but I have seen it.
The vitriolic hatred of some women for other women seems to surpass that of men for other men (source below).
What is certain is than one woman, Susan Dalgety of the Scotsman, will attack the First Minister in a more visceral way than any male writer I can remember.
Former Adviser to Jack McConnell and Labour Councillor, Susan Dalgety. is one the Scotsman’s attack dogs, such as Brian Wilson (Labour Minister under Blair) John McDonnell (Tory Councillor) and Brian Monteith (UKIP MEP) who hide their other selves.
In the above piece, she dissects the body of cancer victim, Tracey Emin, to help the reader feel the full horror of the most extreme case before applying that image, heartlessly, to all other cancer cases, then shockingly, blame the First Minister for the deaths of thousands still to come because of the treatment delays due to her Covid strategy. There are of course no statistics supporting that bloody accusation.
Then, perhaps revealing the ability to compartmentalise of the sociopathic mind, Dalgety writes:
My daughter-in-law, a mobile hairdresser, has just been told by the First Minister to stop working, with no apparent safety net to compensate for her loss of income. Her experience is replicated across the hospitality sector with people and businesses thrown on the scrapheap without, it seems, a scintilla of sympathy.
Does the mobile hairdresser have receipts and a tax return? If so, I feel sure compensation is available. Did she pay any tax?
And, sympathy? Has Dalgety seen none of the briefings?
Dalgety goes too far. Is there no editor at the once great Scotsman, one of the few UK newspapers to speak against British Imperialist aggression in the 1956 Suez Campaign?
Association for Psychological Science (2011, March 5). Mean girls and queen bees: Females threatened by social exclusion will reject others first. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 17, 2013
In April 2021:
Former adviser to Jack McConnell, Susan Dalgety, writing in the right-wing Tory rag, the Spectator, once edited by Johnson, casts doubt on the First Minister’s progressiveness and at the same time looks down her nose at a council house / comprehensive school background in North Ayrshire.
There was a time when coming from a ‘modest background’ and getting on was perceived as something to be proud of in the Labour Party. I claim a modest background.
Susan Dalgety has a trail of nasty personal attacks on Sturgeon.
In November 2020, she dissected the body of cancer victim, Tracey Emin, to help the reader feel the full horror of the most extreme case before applying that image, heartlessly, to all other cancer cases, then shockingly, blame the First Minister for the deaths of thousands still to come because of the treatment delays due to her Covid strategy. There are of course no statistics supporting that bloody accusation.
Then, perhaps revealing the ability to compartmentalise of the sociopathic mind, Dalgety writes:
My daughter-in-law, a mobile hairdresser, has just been told by the First Minister to stop working, with no apparent safety net to compensate for her loss of income. Her experience is replicated across the hospitality sector with people and businesses thrown on the scrapheap without, it seems, a scintilla of sympathy.
Does the mobile hairdresser have receipts and a tax return? If so, I feel sure compensation is available. Did she pay any tax?
And, sympathy? Has Dalgety seen none of the briefings?
Progressive?
On taxation, benefits, education, women’s rights, the environment, discrimination, nuclear weapons, the evidence is clear. I won’t list it all. It’s here:
The SNP, not Labour, is the real radical and progressive party
Talking-up Scotland 
If this is Joanna Cherry ”cancelled” she should be thanking whoever is responsible as she has had more publicity and headlines in the past week than everyone except King Charles !
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Dalgety’s ridiculing of Nicola Sturgeon just exemplifies the fact that she (Dalgety) has nothing intelligent to say, except for bitchy, imbecilic tropes.
Nicola Sturgeon has more intelligence, morality and honesty in her wee toe in her tartan shoes than Dalgety could ever wish to have in her whole nasty being.
As a female of the human species, I can affirm that females can be very very nasty indeed towards other females. Whether it’s about how they look, ‘I didn’t recogniiiise youuu’, oozing bitchiness, and, ‘I said to hubby, gowd, is that Hetty?!’
Or they are competitive in career terms, it’s a dog eat dog world for females, grrr!!!
To use Tracey Emin’s cancer to attack NS, just despicable.
As for some women in power, oooft! Look at Thatcher, (or don’t!) Patel, Braverman, and all those dreadful maga Trump followers, and of course that awful Labour MP Nandy and that other one, nasty as hell.
Cherry is it seems taking things too far, she should be calling out the Tory/ConLabour parties for their attacks on the poorest and most vulnerable, and of course it is the case that women do sadly bear more of the brunt of economic inequality etc. She does Scotland no favours and I found it ironic the article was published in the not so Scottish ‘ScotsMAN’.
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‘Seriously, I’ve been trying to stay out this for some time now ..’
Me too! And it’s been difficult to hold off from commenting negatively having read almost daily ‘problematic’ social media contributions plus frequent newspaper contributions plus other mainstream media contributions from an individual who also has the opportunity, again almost daily, to speak in the UK parliament and have their contributions recorded for posterity in Hansard but who (apparently) has somehow been ‘cancelled’ from speaking at one small venue on one evening.
And this is because relatively voiceless/otherwise relatively powerless individuals – employees of the venue – object to facilitating at one time in one place – viz. in their place of work – the possible communication of the views the individual espouses – and that’s somehow an ‘outrage’!
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That’s not the point. All of the stuff above is irrelevant, the woman should have been allowed to speak – simple. She WAS cancelled – that’s not good enough in a democracy and if you are excusing this then you really have to take a hard look at yourself and your reasoning. It is wrong to do this no matter how abhorrent you find the views, it’s not free speech of you limit it. On another aspect of this debacle: what kind of management has this joint? The staff are dictating who speaks? And as for poor wee Nicola – isn’t she a fan of Henry Kissinger? I mean, no offense, I know the guy won the Nobel prize for peace but really?
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Agree J. Cherry should have been allowed to speak, and the whole trans issue being used, it’s very convenient for the powerful to steer negative discourse, to distract and to divide people. No one should be ‘cancelled’.
It’s certainly a great way to sow division and the likes of the Scotsman really dine out on it all. Do they really care about J.Cherry, not likely.
Btw me too, tried staying out of all of this. Everyone equal, that’s the way it should be, sadly that is far from the case.
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OT – The Tory propaganda unit must have been annoyed that despite their best devices, the SNP’s new auditors were appointed.
It was probably only a matter of time before they came up with some “wheeze” or an “Ah…but” story to circulate – There is always some journo ready to take the bait, in this case it’s the Guardian’s Pippa Crerar https://archive.ph/9cYAi
15 mentions of SNP, 2 of Yousaf, 5 of Sturgeon, 4 of auditing, 29 of tax, yet what is the ‘wheeze’ ? – ” Signature Tax, an offshoot of AMS Accountants Group ” potentially arranging a “tax avoidance scheme”.
The hypocrisy of one of the most corrupt political parties in living memory dreaming up this bizarre ‘guilt by association’ piece is priceless, but perhaps they are just having a Mone….
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The SNP is nothing if it is not a broad church, which should have harnessed the abilities and intellect of people like Cherry, but now resembles a circular firing squad.
Dalgety is a reminder of how low down and gutter-dirty Scottish Labour (with its ally, the Hootsmon) and its people actually are.
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