Gym? Sturgeon needs to work out what to do next

NICOLA Sturgeon is clearly enjoying life after politics, going to the gym and taking bookings for all manner of engagements: the trouble is, she's not actually resigned as an MSP.

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Perhaps the former First Minister still wields such a fearsome reputation in the SNP that nobody has the guts to tell her that she's supposed to step down before embarking on a career as a second-rate variety act.

And then there's the awkward fact that if a failed politician is going to flog themselves as a public speaker, then the public might expect them to actually speak about issues from their career.

Such as, in Sturgeon's case, the gender reforms and legislation she introduced and the wider drive she led to embed transgender self-identification at all levels of public life in Scotland.

Yet, more than a week after the Supreme Court ruled that a woman is a biological female and not a bearded fella in a dress, we are yet to hear from this equalities trailblazer.

On Easter Monday, the Glasgow Southside MSP posted a selfie of her working out at the gym, prompting the satirical Scottish social media account "Brian Spanner" to quip: "Pontius Pilates".

THIS clever remark - referencing Easter, fitness classes and the betrayal felt by many women under Sturgeon - was retweeted by JK Rowling, who famously once wore a T-shirt bearing the slogan: Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of women's rights".