Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the private eye office with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Hizlop.

It's too hot.

At least two of the members of this podcast have breached the shorts Rubicon.

But we're going to try and cool ourselves down by taking ourselves north several hundred

miles to Scotland, where Nicholas Sturgeon, former First Minister for, what was it, over eight

years, last scene, I think by a lot of listeners to this podcast, or lots of people who are

even, you know, pretty up with the news being arrested before being released and having a crime scene tent erected in

her garden and all sorts of fun stuff. She has written a new memoir which has been received as being

very frank. In fact, it's called, frankly. It's had a lot of serialisation, a lot of hype,

and it seems to be a chance to appraise the whole kind of Sturgeon project such as it was or is

and in fact the whole of the SMP. And Ian, you have a special expertise of this because you spent

many years receiving lots of correspondence from readers north of the border, I believe.

Yes, a lot of Scottish readers wrote in over the last decade saying, why don't you cover Scotland?

And then whenever we covered Scotland, they said, you patronising bastards, why don't you leave Nicola Sturgeon

alone? You have no idea. What a great leader she is. Certainly compared to yours, do you want

Boris Johnson slash whoever is in Theresa May, Rishish see now, we've got Nicola Sturgeon.

So the correspondence, which again doesn't say that anymore, there was a fairly dramatic reversal.

But this, I think, is an attempt to, certainly an attempt by Nicola Sturgeon to rehabilitate herself.

And again, any memoir that says, frankly, on it,

is going to get people to say, well, really.

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