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The attacks made on Supreme Court smack of crude populism

I VOTED for the SNP in the Holyrood elections because they were slightly more mature and less opportunistic than the alternatives.

Recent attacks on the Supreme Court by Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill are consequently very disappointing. As both these politicians know perfectly well, the leading judgments of the Supreme Court in Scottish cases are almost invariably given by the two Scottish judges and the other judges simply fall into line behind them.