You may remember a couple of years ago BBC Scotland presenter Kaye Adams dropped a clanger on her live radio phone-in.

During a discussion on the Covid Inquiry, she expressed her view that Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf “are not humans, they are politicians”.

I don’t know Kaye Adams from, well, Adam. But I choose to believe she was guilty of a cack-handed manner of expression rather than holding a genuine opinion that politicians are a different species.

I raise this incident now because an acquaintance of mine – who is not particularly politically engaged – made a similar observation earlier this week.

It should concern us all if politicians are widely believed to be less than human by sections of the electorate.

It also got me considering the vagaries of why people enter politics in the first place and why some of them become Cabinet Ministers.

More fun watching Dundee United lose

Quite frankly, I’d rather watch a recording of Dundee United’s 11 Hampden cup final defeats on an endless loop than stand for public office.

Every word, every gesture, every action is analysed to the nth degree and any deviation from perfection is seized upon as proof that you are unsuited to the job.

Some people seek Cabinet responsibility and others have Cabinet........

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