Cicada recipes pop up every time a 13 or 17 year Brood appears. I saw recipes in Cincinnati when Brood X appeared in 1987, 2004, and 2021, this is nothing new.
Gratuitous picture of potential future SNP leader Kate Forbes...
While I would strongly disagree with her on Scottish independence, she does have several qualities that make her a significant improvement over the current SNP Leadership:
She is actually competent, she actually knows how to run a ministry properly.
She is honest, she was not part of the Sturgeon inner circle.
She is Christian, and not just a Christian in name only.
Inevitable once the Bute House agreement with the Greens fell apart.
Humza Yousaf is a modest man, with much to be modest about. The only reason he got the SNP Leadership and First Minister jobs was due to being a toady to Nicola Sturgeon.
Hopefully this will force a Scottish Parliament Election and both the SNP and Greens will be forced to pay for their incompetence.
While the SNP has had it’s fair share of screw ups (The entire Calmac Ferries fiasco, the “Named Person” insanity), the Greens have brought more than their fair share of both bad policy, and poor implementation.
The entire Bottle Deposit scheme was the idea of a Green minister. Instead of consulting any of the numerous bottle deposit programs in Europe and North America, to use as a template, the minister responsible, Lorna Slater, decided to reinvent the wheel and build a program from scratch, with no research into how successful program work. The result was a predictable and unimplementable disaster.