It looks like Scottish politicians have more important things to do than submit any of their WhatsApps to the Covid Inquiry. Cultivating their public image seems appears more important. The Sun have tracked the IP addresses of Wikipedia edits on prominent MSPs’ pages and found them to have come from – you guessed it – Holyrood work computers. Staffers’ time is clearly being put to good use…

Paul Sweeney, Scottish Labour MSP, had his Wikipedia page edited a whopping 14 times, which included getting rid of any reference to him being appointed a shadow Scotland minister by Jeremy Corbyn. Scottish LibDem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton’s page was edited to remove criticism of his sweary 2021 outburst at children’s minister Maree Todd. Former Scottish Reform leader Michelle Ballantyne had the entire “controversies” section of her page removed. Meanwhile Holyrood computers have added Humza Yousaf’s name to a list of “notable alumni” of a U.S State Department leadership programme. If you can’t be good, look good…

For years, Scotland’s offshore wind has been central to the SNP’s pitch for independence, with Scottish ministers dating back to Salmond’s premiership repeating claims that Scotland boasted 25% of Europe’s wind potential. The trouble is, the SNP policy wonks had forgotten Scandinavia exists. The actual figure is around 5% of Europe’s wind potential – they were only out by a factor of 5.

The issue was raised in Holyrood by Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, who decried a “pattern of misinformation”. If the Lib Dems are criticising misleading statistics, they must be bad. What makes the matter worse is the SNP has continued to parrot the figure into the present day. A Scottish minister, the Green’s Lorna Slater, deployed the figure as recently as this week. Unlike Salmond himself, this is one inconvenient remnant of his leadership the party has been unable to get rid of…