Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly , finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since Prince Harry’s Spare . Her attempts to denigrate her former mentor, the late Alex Salmond, have rebounded disastrously. Her teasing about her ‘non-binary’ sexuality sounded contrived. Her complaints of victimhood ring hollow coming from a politician who had a relatively easy ride during her time in office, not least because the metropolitan left and much of the media chose to idolise her as a Caledonian Jacinda Ardern and scourge of Boris Johnson.
She even picked a pointless new fight with J.K. Rowling. In her memoir she accuses the author of having made her feel ‘less safe’ in 2022 at the height of the trans self-ID row by wearing a t-shirt suggesting the FM wa