The pair - arguably the most prominent public figures in Scotland - have long disagreed about politics…
“She is flat out Trumpian in her shameless denial of reality and hard facts,” adds the Edinburgh-based author.
Rowling describes that as Sturgeon’s “basket of deplorables” moment, a reference to Hillary Clinton’s disastrous dismissal of half of her rival Donald Trump’s supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic.
As an American, I principally interpret Scotland’s political environment via analogs to the American political environment, which is what I have the most familiarity with. It’s reassuring to see that apparently the most-prominent public figures in Scotland operate the same way. I can’t be too far off the mark!
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
This reads like a Rowling hit piece on Sturgeon.
Where’s the impartiality BBC?
Oh wait, I forgot, it doesn’t exist.
opendemocracy.net/…/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum…
opendemocracy.net/…/bbc-is-neither-independent-or…
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