Leaving aside the fact the the Murrell case is still live, as Police Scotland continue to investigate his sports socks for traces of energy-enhancing herbal supplements, this ‘somebody refuses to say‘ thing is the saddest of sad journalistic tricks.
If you can’t find anything remotely interesting to report to your dwindling audience, ask some celebrity a question too sensitive or just impossible to answer, then when they don’t, gleefully report:
‘Somebody refuses to say something about somebody or something!’
It’s been everywhere in recent days, a desperate fall-back for the jobbing:
Rishi Sunak refuses to say if he’ll vote on Boris Johnson report!
Pence refuses to say if he would pardon Trump!
Trump refuses to say if Ukraine should win the war against Russia!
Seven years ago we had:
Ken Livingstone has refused to say sorry for saying Hitler supported Zionism
And 2 067 years ago, Glennius Campbellius of the Brittonic Propaganda Colonia, wrote:
‘Brutus refuses to say if if Gaius Cassius Longinus stabbed Caesar!’
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
AND THE GLASGOW HERALD SLIDES FURTHER INTO WNTON LIARS
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STV’s Colin McKay was at it last night , too.
Ms Sturgeon refused to give him the low-down on the on-going police investigation and he was proper furious about it . How dare she !
And he couldn’t even find out who is the lead investigator .
Don’t they know who I am ?
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I had a flash back of Dixon of Dock Green there!
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There is a lot of wilfully nasty people working in the Scottish news media. Mr Gordon of the Herald seems one of the most unpleasant.
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‘Brutus refuses to say if if Gaius Cassius Longinus stabbed Caesar!’
An earlier Tom Gordon piece ?
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Perhaps Tom Gordon was there when Caesar was assassinated. He is an old fogey, after all, and his so-called “journalism” has been roamin’ in the gloamin’ for a long time now = far too long, I think!
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Aye, but “Glennius Campbellius of the Brittonic Propaganda Colonia” was a belter…
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