Spitting image, The Black Watch, TV debates – it’s all in Alex Salmond’s new Courier column
ByThe Courier Reporter
Spitting Image puppets of former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher
They don’t do satire like they used to.
If they did, surely a field day would be had with the current UK political scene.
Now, while nostalgia isn’t quite what it used to be, Alex Salmond has harked back to the wonderful Spitting Image to illustrate his point on recent polls.
The former First Minister has strident views about the controversy surrounding Gregory Burke’s play, The Black Watch, and the fact it is not on the syllabus at Kirriemuir’s Websters High School.
There’s even a Shakespeare reference thrown in. What more do you want?
Perhaps what makes him rush for the TV remote. Well, that’s in there too!
Read Alex Salmond’s column every Monday in The Courier.
Spitting image, The Black Watch, TV debates – it’s all in Alex Salmond’s new Courier column
