The Lord Advocate is accused of giving the First Minister advance information on the case involving the SNP’s former chief executive. Our Writer at Large, Neil Mackay, says it smacks of the kind of impunity and privilege the public will no longer tolerate.

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

The people are sick to death of the old, rotten system. The notion that there’s ‘one rule for them, and another rule for us’ will no longer be tolerated.

The tables have been turned. Politicians, government leaders, royals, captains of industry, superstars and billionaires who don’t realise that the world has shifted beneath their feet are going to get steamrollered by public rage unless they change and behave as we demand.

The people are angry. It is not wise to cross the public at such a time. The Epstein scandal has changed everything when it comes to the relationship between the people and power.

Anyone seen to be acting with impunity or privilege will reap the whirlwind; any politician who receives advantages over the rest of us will be dealt with so hard their head spins.

Why should politicians receive any special treatment which is unavailable to the public?

The rather brutal row ongoing at Holyrood........

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