If tomorrow Alex Salmond announced he was devoting the rest of his life to finding a cure for cancer and eradicating child poverty worldwide, he would still generate a massive amount of seethe from the Scottish media and sections of the public.
It is what it is. Joking aside, I'm certainly not a supporter of Putin or the way he treats journalists or LGBTQ people. Incidentally, there are many regimes around the world where we turn a blind eye to this in order to do business with them and call them allies. We've just seen a minister resigning for getting up to some pretty cretinous behaviour in the Middle East.
Salmond is retired from frontline politics, he can pretty much do what the f**k he wants. However, I can't recall the same clutching of pearls and concern trolling by the Scottish media when a string of Conservative and Labour MP's lined up to appear on RT.
I understand that the show will be produced by Salmond's own company and is merely broadcast on RT. Perhaps those who are most vocal and critical of this should perhaps wait to see what the content of the show is before passing judgement.