This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter.

Late last week, Scottish Labour announced its candidate for the 2026 Holyrood election in the Almond Valley constituency.

His name is Jordan Stokoe, he's a former management consultant and member of the centre-left Co-operative Party. So far, so normal.

Any potential voters in the constituency, which takes in Livingston and the surrounding areas, may have been slightly puzzled if they deigned to visit the website of their prospective new MSP.

They'd have discovered that their area of Lothian has seemingly become mountainous and home to a huge lake, that its doctors leer at patients with haunted, dead eyes and buses bear passengers to destinations such as Ies Pis Ivor.

AI-generated images which appear on Jordan Stokoe's website (Image: Newsquest) The images on Mr Stokoe's website, you see, have been generated by artificial intelligence - though one on the future of young people

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