Brought to book Michael Gove has enjoyed a varied and exciting career. The amiable Aberdonian is a former journalist. Former politician.
And former-former journalist, for he recently re-entered the trade in which he made his name, and is now editor of The Spectator magazine. Will he ever become a former-former politician, we wonder, and plunge back into the ministerial morass? Possibly not, for the insouciant Mr Gove has chosen to mock the most powerful political figure in the world, King Donald of Trumplandia. On a recent Spectator podcast, Gove said of the US President: “Donald Trump has probably written more books than he’s read, and it’s not even clear that he’s actually read the book that he’s supposed to have written.
” Ouch. The Diary doesn’t foresee Michael bagging a top job in Washington DC anytime soon..
. Facing the music Politics, continued. When people reach a certain age they worry about slipped discs.
Not the 50-something Nicola Sturgeon, who is more interested in spinning discs than slipping them. The former Glorious Leader recently entered a DJ booth in Perth, intent on assaulting the eardrums of nearby music lovers by rotating hot slivers of vinyl. Our readers are now figuring out what records she played.
“I’m assuming,” says Norman Fuller from Cumbernauld, “that Nicola celebrated the delightful harmony she brought to the opposing factions of the SNP when she was party leader, and played that classic hit by Edwin Starr...
War.” Love..
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