Jack the pothead - allegedly

I find it difficult to become worked up about the association (as reported in The Sunday Herald) which Mr McConnell may or may not have had with a student guidebook advocating the merits of smoking cannabis while he was at Stirling University 27 years ago. We all did stupid things at university; that is one of the reasons that universities exist.

But we are now almost three months on from the elections. It is time that the Scottish Labour Party pulled itself together and decided who will lead it into the future. The sense of drift while Mr McConnell contemplates his options and tampers with his golf swing at Lamlash-Les-Deux-Eglises becomes more palpable by the day.

Like the encouragement formerly offered to some of the lesser (and occasionally the greater) footballing teams in this wonderful wee country of ours, my advice to Mr McConnell is straightforward:

Dae Sumthin!