‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Kate Forbes, the former finance minister of Scotland, may be reflecting this Easter that the Almighty can be gratifyingly swift
in settling debts.
Forbes was narrowly defeated by a rival who attacked her profession of the Christian faith, while weaselling out of declaring his own religious commitments. Yet within days of his election, there were police in Nicola Sturgeon’s garden and the SNP’s auditors had made their excuses and left. For Humza Yousaf, who presented himself as the continuity candidate, there can be no handwashing of the catastrophe, no Pontius Pilate option available.
Not even the sternest elders would censure Forbes for muttering “God is good” under her breath. There’s a good chance that soon, the
