Blogosphere: Salmond's saintly glow

I HAVE never been fond of Mr Enric Miralles’s architecture for the Scottish Parliament building. This Caledonian Casa Poporului looks, in my view, like a Surrealist car park, which is an altogether more interesting proposition than its actual function, which is to make the assembled cooncillors, party hacks and accidental politicians feel important as they go about the business of not doing very much at all.

While recently watching the dim spectacle of First Minister’s Questions, I noticed an unusual feature of the architecture. It is a matter of light. Whenever the Senior Retainer, Mr Alex Salmond, stood up to speak, his head was wrapped in a turban of ...