Nowt to do wiv me, guv

It would be presumptuous of me to think that the Presiding Officer actually reads this blog but, following my minor rant earlier this year, it is pleasing to report that a crackdown on informality is under way. The Evening News reports:

MSPs have been ordered to stop calling each other by their first names during debates in the Scottish Parliament.
Presiding officer Alex Fergusson said in future, MSPs should use members' full names so people watching from the public gallery or on television would know who they were talking about.
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He said: "It is not our intention to impose undue formality in the chamber, but it is our opinion members should address each other in the third person and by full names instead of first names only."

Too right.