Luke Tryl

A lot of feeling in the room of concern about the direction of travel and particularly about the cost of living.

A lot of worries about the world.

I mean, it's not a country that's in a particularly good mood, I think was my main takeaway.

And the last thing, Adam, that is really striking, all men in suits on the stage.

You know, we've gone from a position where we had Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives, we had Kezia Dugdale for Labour, we obviously had Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister.

So we've gone from that to this all-male lineup again, albeit it should be said the Greens have a co-leadership position.

So that's shared between Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay.

And she appeared on this Channel 4 leaders debate, which we might get on to.

My takeaway from watching the debate, which I watched on iPlayer on my sofa at home, which is quite unusual for me because normally I'd be in a spin room or in the studio watching it with a notepad and thinking about sort of reporting on it in slightly more real time as opposed to catching up on it the next day.

For me, watching it as a viewer at home, that kind of a goggle box.

It was thematic, James.

They didn't get into very detailed arguments about what people's positions or policies or pros and cons of what people were proposing was.

It was quite, sort of felt like the same argument for every section.

Yeah, I think that's fair.

And I suppose part of the reason for that might have been that we were halfway through the publication of manifestos at that point.

So it's quite difficult to say, you know, to the SNP who hadn't published their manifesto until today at that debate,

We expect you right now to set out precisely all of your policies.

I mean, I suppose that's just the nature of going first with these debates.

There's been another one since then, and there'll be another one later, an STV Scottish television one later in the campaign.

Maybe that'll get into more of the details.