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As with less-publicized cases of embezzlement —the (typically?) fat unattractive primary school headmistress who embezzles from her school, the accountant of a small or large charity who embezzles from his or her employer— what strikes one, usually, and certainly in the Murrell/Sturgeon case, are the banalities of the crime.
The purchases made with the embezzled monies in the SNP case included salt and pepper mills made by Lalique (bought for £2,600); coffee machines (costing thousands); Montblanc pens; watches.
Then there is the £125,000 motorhome…
There is something about the sheer tasteless cheesiness of it all that is a perfect fit with the Sturgeon/Murrell lifestyle, and with the SNP in general. Look at the Sturgeon/Murrell house, for example: a tasteless modern tract-house with no real gardens (just the ubiquitous tiny lawn in the “front garden” etc), and in a soulless neighbourhood that seems, seen on TV news, to be without many trees or bushes.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I usually avoid writing much about Scotland and Scottish politics. I do not follow Scottish matters in detail, and in fact have never been north of Hadrian’s Wall. However, one cannot fail to note how fake the whole SNP thing is— a “nationalist” party, supposedly, that regards blacks or Pakistanis born in, or even just living in, Scotland as more “Scottish” than any Englishman from England (even if living in Scotland), and even if part-Scots by ancestry. It’s mad.
Both the SNP and Scottish Labour have in recent years been led by Pakistanis.
Those parties cannot be taken seriously.
Not that I necessarily oppose Scotland going its own way, though it never will. If it were to do so, it would be a very poor little country, and quite likely ruled by a corrupt and cultureless cabal such as that which coalesced around Nicola Sturgeon and her (equally or even more-) corrupt and dishonest husband.
I have had little contact with SNP supporters over the years. The couple I have encountered (online) were both censorious and ignorant.
Incidentally, I think that Nicola Sturgeon is probably a lesbianka, but I suppose I may be wrong.
More tweets
[“Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.
Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.
The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.
Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.
The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.
The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.“]
The world can be very strange.
Britain and Russia should be standing together.
For me, ideology is key, but that is me…
Ian Robert Millard 