Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish politician, is criticized for complaining about politics being polarized despite previously dismissing critics as misogynistic, homophobic, and racist. Sturgeon is described as Scotland's culture warrior-in-chief. She is undergoing a rebranding, attracting a new audience of middle-aged people with tote bags filled with books. Despite attempts at a modern-day Weimar salon image, the reality of Sturgeon's audience is seen as more ordinary.
“I am just not sure that it merits the literary prizes that it will almost certainly be nominated for.” 📖 Book of the Day: @NicolaSturgeon on Colm Tóibín’s Long Island https://t.co/yccQLqqTCT
‘The version of Sturgeon in front of me seemed to bear only the vaguest of relations to her historical doppelganger North of the Border.’ The Sturgeon rebrand is well under way, writes @Docstockk: 👇 https://t.co/HaTY9j15hZ
Nicola Sturgeon has found a new audience: scruffy middle-aged people with LRB tote bags stuffed with books by George Monbiot and Judi Dench. @Docstockk: 👇 https://t.co/HaTY9j15hZ
‘Despite management pretensions to be running a modern-day Weimar salon, the reality of the audience at Sturgeon’s talk was somewhat more prosaic.’ @Docstockk reports on the Nicola Sturgeon comeback tour: 👇 https://t.co/HaTY9j15hZ
🎙️ Thatcherism: the last authentic political brand? Listen to Martin Roche as he discusses further his recent Bylines Scotland article, ´Political parties lack the essential qualities of real brands’ @cluthaman @RadioBarbour #podcast #CitizenJournalism https://t.co/tulc2qLc2C
Nicola Sturgeon has an impressive brass neck. The woman who dismissed all of her critics as misogynistic, homophobic and racist now has the gall to complain about politics being too 'polarised'. She is still Scotland’s culture warrior-in-chief: https://t.co/GNOzPkpkNa