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Nicola Sturgeon Loses Another Round to JK Rowling ⁠65%

By John Sexton⁠79%

8/8/2026, 9:30:40 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 32 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Politically Right Leaning Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 38.8% saturation with 245 hits. Analysis detected 1,527 faulty-reasoning hits from 632 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠65% (10,738 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.90% of the article peer group.

Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is the kind of politician who gives politicians a bad name. 
She's the kind of character who seems to have no capacity for shame whatsoever. 
Every pronouncement she makes, even if it completely contradicts what she said yesterday, is delivered with absolute conviction. 
My favorite example of this, and it's relevant to this story, happened back in January 2023 when Sturgeon found herself on the ropes over her support for trans people. 
Sturgeon was a big fan of self-ID, the ability of people to simply announce they were male or female and then get a certificate from the government saying it was so. 
She championed a Gender Recognition Reform Bill that would have made this the law in Scotland. 
But about a month later her bill came into conflict with reality in the form of Isla Bryson, a trans woman who also happened to be a convicted rapist. 
The question at the time was whether or not Scottish authorities would be forced to send Bryson to a women's prison. 
That led to this embarrassing reversal from Sturgeon where she said that, of course, a male rapist wouldn't be sent to a women's prison. 
And a few days after that, Sturgeon was pressed to explain the contradiction and utterly failed to do so in one of the worst woke-word-salad moments you'll ever see. 
(The tweet says 2025 but this interview aired on Jan. 
30, 2023). 
It's almost as if her worldview doesn't make any sense. 
Two weeks later, Sturgeon announced she was resigning. 
Six weeks after that (late March 2023) she was gone. 
But two years later, she still couldn't manage to answer a question about this. 
Watch as she talks herself into another corner. 
For obvious reasons, Sturgeon was frequently at odds with J.K. 
Rowling both during and after her time in office. 
Rowling is clearly not a fan. 
There are many more examples over the past several years, including Rowling's review of Sturgeon's autobiography. 
But recently, Sturgeon has been in the news for a new reason. 
Her husband of 15 years was just convicted of embezzlement of several hundred thousand pounds. 
Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail after he admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party. 
Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - used the funds to buy goods ranging from cars and a motorhome to kitchenware and toiletries. 
The 61-year-old's sentence was backdated to 25 May, when he was remanded in custody after pleading guilty. 
So, just to be really clear, he stole this money from the party that his wife was once the leader of while they were still married. 
In fact, although Nicola has announced her intent to divorce him, they are still married now. 
This has led many people to wonder how Nicola never noticed all the fancy things he was bringing home. 
Sturgeon has maintained that, like Col. 
Klink in the old TV show, she knew nothing. 
Memes of Sturgeon as a blind woman circulated. 
Rowling also got in on it. 
A couple days ago, Rowling added this: 
So there you have it. 
All of Sturgeon's critics are obsessed and/or misogynists. 
And she did absolutely nothing wrong and knew absolutely nothing about her husband's crimes. 
I guess Sturgeon still has her fans though, I can't imagine why. 
Some of them will buy this and so long as they do she'll keep selling it. 
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632 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker7.0%attributed speech588writer words
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HotAir

100%flagged-word coverage
44 attributed words100% of attributed speech80% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +97.3 ptsWriter: 2.7%HotAir: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-41.7 ptsWriter: 41.7%HotAir: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination+29.5 ptsWriter: 0.0%HotAir: 29.5%29.5%Politically Right Leaning -19.2 ptsWriter: 19.2%HotAir: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-2.0 ptsWriter: 2.0%HotAir: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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