WHO could forget the lofty oratory of the SNP’s Pete Wishart 25 February 2015? “No SNP Member has a second job, a directorship or a place on a company,” he lectured the Commons, “our responsibilities here are our sole concern.” Well, er, it seems one Pete Wishart has forgotten. The latest register of interests reveals he trousered £2,265 last month for moonlighting as a musician on Dave TV. The name of the show? Believe it or not, Unspun.

THERE were many fond tales told about Tory MSP Alex Johnstone following his untimely death from cancer this week, but perhaps David Mundell’s best captured his indefatigable love of politics and mischief. Sensing a recent visit to the patient might well be their last meeting, the Scottish Secretary lowered his voice and gently asked if there was anything he could do for Alex and his wife Linda. “Aye,” nodded the big man thoughtfully. “Stick it up the Nats!”

ALEX’S legacy now passes into other hands, not least his possession of a license to collect bovine semen. Thankfully, two other Tory MSPs are registered “bull w*****s”, according to a senior party source, including Highland toff Sir Edward Brian Stanford Mountain. The multi-skilled baronet is also qualified to teach ceroc dancing. If only he could combine the two, a career in reality TV would surely beckon.

A LEAKED email arrives from North Lanarkshire Council, where Independent Alan O’Brien seems most unhappy about the SNP’s Rosa Zambonini choking his Inbox. Replying to her latest round robin, he asked the chief executive to block all spam from the councillor, who is known as Planks for her curious habit of pretending to be a plank on social media. (It was a craze, apparently). For good measure, Cllr O’Brien told his nemesis: “I know it might come as a surprise to you Rosa, but most us aren’t that interested in updates from planet Zambonini.”

PAISLEY MSP George Adam sponsored a lively Holyrood reception about his town’s bid to become UK City of Culture 2021 this week. But not half as lively as his chat with John Swinney on the subject, when Mr Adam cheekily asked the Perthshire MSP to throw his weight behind Paisley. As Mr Swinney is naturally backing Perth’s rival bid, this didn’t go down too well. “The reply,” reports our mole, “was not just brutal but anatomically impossible.”

FINALLY, news of Scottish Labour spindoctor Alan Roden, intriguingly spotted boozing this week with fellow Daily Mail alumnus Stuart Nicolson, now the FM’s top spinner. Actually, it’s more about Red Roddo's dad, the Rev John Roden of Appleton Roebuck, North Yorks. Unspun hears that a few years back, the Red Rev made UK-wide headlines after slagging off the Queen Mum as a non-entity who had done nothing in public life except be the “grandmother of an incredibly dysfunctional family”. His son, a salivating royalist, remains appalled to this day. As for Dad’s support of Jeremy Corbyn... Well, we won’t even mention that.