Hamish Macdonell: Just what we don't need: yet more bureaucrats

JUST occasionally, politicians come up with ideas that show, without a shadow of a doubt, that they just don't get it. Labour's Scottish front-bench team came up with one recently. We need a "superbug tsar" they cried. The threat of infection in our hospitals is so acute, they said, that we need to put someone in charge.

That person would be appointed by and be answerable to the Scottish Parliament and would be paid a very good salary, probably between £60,000 and £80,000 of taxpayers' money every year (plus a generous pension and expenses, of course).

Well-meanin...