Spectating Scotland

Andrew Neil has agreed to host a debate between Alex Salmond and George Galloway.

This event television will be possible because Spectator TV was Internet-only. Even RT, with which neither Salmond nor Galloway was unfamiliar, would not have been allowed to have done this.

There are interesting side issues, such as the fact that Salmond and Galloway were both opposed to gender self-identification, unlike all of the parties that were allowed on the official broadcasters.

The SNP has joined Labour and the Conservatives in the club of over-entitled whingers that other parties were splitting "their" vote, as if they owned our votes. 

Jackson Carlaw has been having a good old bellyache about All for Unity. Yet not only is Carlaw the Conservative candidate at Eastwood, but he is also at the top of the Conservative list for West Scotland. 

Carlaw is so important that people are expected to vote for him twice. But in his 12 years at Holyrood, what, exactly, has he done to have attained quite that level of eminence?