Rupert and the kiss of death

The Calton Hill award for most sycophantic comment of the week year has to go to Rupert Murdoch and his tweet about Alex Salmond. It is so stomach-turning that Calton cannot bring himself to quote it but you can read about it here if you really want to. Had Alex any sense he would quickly be putting some deep blue water between himself and the owner of News Corporation because, if a large ship sinks, it has a tendency to take every vessel within a mile radius down with it, and we haven't forgotten what happened to the News of the World (or Private Eye's brilliant cover on it). Unfortunately the First Minister seems to have been so dazzled by the Sun that he can't see the icebergs dead ahead.