Politics - Michael Gove
Last week we had the (almost) hysterical spectacle of Michael Gove, in the House of Commons, calling the SNP the Scottish Nationalist Party - when it is actually called the Scottish NATIONAL Party. Several SNP MPs immediately corrected him by calling out "national, national". Instead of retracting his error, Gove went on attack and insisted they were nationalists - in what was clearly intended to be an insult. Does Gove not recognise the irony (or maybe the hypocrisy) of his words? I suspect he was fully aware but that this was just another example of a politician twisting facts to suit a personal and political point. As a leading light of the pro Brexit movement, Gove was a major figure in what was the UK nationalist movement (or, more accurately, the English and Welsh nationalist movement). To accuse the SNP of being nationalists, in such a derogatory way, is pretty rich given that his nationalism is far deeper than the SNP's! To be clear, this...