The various sex scandals, if you want to call them that, surrounding UK Culture Secretary John Whittingdale hark back to a bygone era of tabloid journalism and private life tittle tattle.
Sex sells, as the saying goes, and perhaps that’s what the National Farmers’ Union of Scotland had in mind when they decided on the date and venue for their Holyrood election hustings in Perth.
Hosted in the Fair City’s Huntingtower Hotel on Monday evening, the setting was certainly upmarket enough for those who were vying for our votes so they can become MSPs.
The line-up included Finance Secretary John Swinney, his shadow for the Tories Murdo Fraser, and former Labour MP Thomas Docherty.
A pretty impressive selection of names but hardly a heartthrob hotel, I can hear you rather unfairly cry.
Well here’s the twist.
It was not the candidates who held the power to get people’s knickers in a twist but rather those hosting the other event taking place in the venue that evening.
Self-titled “playful lingerie chain” Ann Summers was hosting a “party” elsewhere in the hotel.
Rumours that guests accidentally ended up in the wrong room are only possibly exaggerated.
