Wings Over Scotland | Marvola The Memory Woman

The multi-statement meltdown that has been the unravelling of Nicola Sturgeon this week has been quite something to behold. Last night, for example, we swear our Twitter feed presented these two tweets one after the other.

But then we read something even more extraordinary.

Firstly, as Conor Matchett of the Scottish Sun noted, that is an extremely audacious interpretation of “full co-operation”.

But secondly, let’s take a moment to gaze in awe at what we’re being asked to believe here.

Nicola Sturgeon told the Salmond inquiry that immediately after being told the shocking news of criminal allegations of attempted rape against her predecessor, mentor and friend, she completely forgot the event and later lied that she hadn’t found out until days later.

We all witnessed her performances at that inquiry and then the COVID one, a phenomenal festival of forgetting at which almost every awkward question was met with a variant on “I don’t recall that”.

But now we’re being told that she somehow committed to memory SEVEN HOURS of non-stop questioning, went home and at some unspecified later date wrote a “detailed response” to all of it?

Pull the other one, hen, it’s got a £7300 jewel-encrusted Lalique bell on it.