There’s no shortage of problems in Humza Yousaf’s in-tray as he gets his feet under the desk at Bute House. Striking workers, anaemic growth, a crumbling NHS: there’s plenty to occupy Yousaf and his new cabinet of old faces. So Mr S was therefore surprised that one minister clearly has enough time to moonlight as a media critic too. Step forward, Paul McLennan MSP, the who occupies the housing brief – a job with no end of issues.
But McLennan seems to not be fulfilled by his duties in parliament and government. For the East Lothian ex-councillor always finds time to criticise those journalists whose writings he feels are insufficiently supportive of the Dear Leader. A case in point was provided yesterday when The Spectator’s very own Rod Liddle asked in the Sunday Times ‘Which of the following most clearly shows our collective tolerance, forbearance and liberal-minded commitment to diversity: the fact that Yousaf is a Muslim or the fact that he is, by wide assent, formidably useless’ adding ‘Of all the 1.9
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