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The demonisation of Alex Salmond

A SPECTRE is haunting Scotland – the spectre of Salmond.

In the past week the First Minister has been compared to the Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe. He has been cast as a “Jekyll and Hyde” character whose true “bullying” tendencies have come to the fore since the May election. He has governed, some say, with a “sinister centralism”.