"Has-been politician getting divorced" would not in itself make the news, of course. We all broadly know what is really being said, and since there have been public policy implications, then we shall soon enough know as much as we had any right to.
But Val McDermid has a wife. These are the real lives of real people. That Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell have not always been exemplary in observing such sensitivities is not an excuse to emulate them. Sturgeon has called on friends to ease her into her new life. When there is more to say, then it will be said.
Murrell is now the fall guy.
ReplyDeleteHe always was.
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