Flying Pigs and Porky Pies
Astounding stuff on BBC Radio Four News tonight: "Scotland's whisky producers see new opportunity in Brexit," were the words headlining the item in the opening overview of stories. Goody, something new and good is happening! What's the new development, what's changed, what's the new opportunity? After 18 minutes we got the detail: 1. David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, has visited a distillery on Islay. Hardly a new Brexit opportunity. 2. Sarah Smith, our BBC Scotland editor, said that the Scottish whisky industry had seen Brexit as unwelcome, but that now "the mood appears to be changing". However, she didn't present any interview in which anybody said the mood was changing, she didn't play any clips of anybody saying it, in fact she didn't offer any evidence of it at all. She might as well have made it up, and given her lack of evidence, the conclusion that she did is pretty inescapable. 3. A Scotch whisky spokesman said tha...