Nicola Sturgeon

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695 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Aug

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Newscast · Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the BBC · 31 May 2026 podcast

I've had massive ups.

I've had downs.

That's what you would expect in the nature of a senior political career.

I don't regret it.

You know, I am, and I know not everybody, because people who used to see me as this kind of strong politician on television might not immediately understand this.

I am by nature, I'm quite an introverted person.

I'm by nature a very reflective person.

I'm probably...

And this can be hard to believe, given how vehement some of my critics are these days, but I'm still just about my own biggest critic.

So I agonise over things like, could I have done anything differently?

Is this all my fault?

I read a piece, or I scanned a piece, I can't remember where it was, this morning.

And I think it goes to the heart of something I...

that it does enrage me.

And the piece was about how I'd had these men in my life who'd done, you know, things, or been accused of bad things, and in Peter's case, did bad things.

And it was talking about Peter and Alec, and it mentioned one, at least one other.

And the tone of this piece, and it wasn't, it was explicit, it wasn't just implicit, was that I was the common denominator, and somehow the problem wasn't what they'd done, it was that

My judge of character was bad.

And I'm just going to say it, there is a deep misogyny in that, a deep embedded misogyny in that.

And if the roles had been reversed, if the leader in question had been a man and it had been women in their lives who'd done bad things, I don't think those kind of commentary pieces would be written.

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