Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. Labour condemned such things under the Tories. If they are now at it, in Scotland's parliament, then we need to know, for it has to be nipped in the bud before it spreads and pollutes Holyrood just as it polluted Westminster. It is the job of the media in a democracy to expose such abuses. To do so is not a prurient intrusion into anyone's private life but to serve the public interest.
