Politics is about choices.
One of the best things about this job is the ability to bring important issues to wider attention - or to try and focus the minds of MSPs across Parliament on an urgent crisis.
So when the Nicola Sturgeon spent the week that saw the Bank of England confirm that inflation was going to hit 11% talking about division rather than the cost of living crisis, it is fair to say that my worst suspicions about the SNP were reconfirmed.
