So this story is the front page of tonight’s Evening Times.

It’s a pretty slim piece deploying a Glasgow mother to attack the SNP-run city council over a recent increase in nursery fees, and it sounds like the new higher cost might be a pretty big deal to her.

“Marisa Murdoch, a TV production worker from the west end of Glasgow, has a five year-old son who is starting school this year and a one and a half year-old younger son who is in a council nursery part time. She said nursery provision allowed her to return to work part time and was intending to return to work full time in November when her youngest turns two but has now had to reconsider her plans. She said: “It is frustrating to say the least. If someone had said we need to increase the fees and it will improve the service and transform the system for everyone then that would have been more acceptable. I’m now looking at what I will have to earn to have my son in nursery full time.”

What was surprising was that the ET didn’t feel it was worth mentioning that in addition to being a “TV production worker”, Marisa is also the wife of Stuart Murdoch, from the celebrated Glasgow emo stalwarts Belle And Sebastian:

And given that Belle And Sebastian have sold millions of albums and concert tickets over the course of their career, including selling out the 18,000-seater Hollywood Bowl on several occasions, and are currently flogging their own Mediterranean cruise-liner festival at which the cheapest pleb-class steerage berths (not including travel) are £519 and the more luxurious options are £7,000 a head (plus taxes and fees):

…we could forgive readers a certain degree of scepticism over whether council nursery provision going from £2.54 an hour to £4 (still below the UK average) is really going to be a make-or-break deal for the band’s families.

Of course, lots of other people will be struggling with that stiff increase too (though households earning under £30,000 will be exempt), thanks to the highly challenging financial circumstances facing the council after it was landed with a £1 billion bill for its Labour predecessor’s prolonged failure to give women employees equal pay.

Indeed, Labour spent millions of pounds cynically fighting the women it had cheated in the courts for over a decade – enough on legal costs alone to have covered/postponed the nursery fee increase for two years, or phased it in much more gently. Many of them died before seeing a penny of the money they’d been robbed of.

Yet having run Glasgow for 75 of the last 84 years (including an unbroken 39 years before the SNP won in 2017) and being solely and entirely responsible for the huge weight now chained around the council’s neck, Labour didn’t let it stop them – in a display of brassnecked dishonesty breathtaking even by their standards – blaming the party that’s been in charge for less than a year:

It’s always worth seeing things in context, readers. And if you’re a newspaper looking to take a swipe at the SNP for trying to clean up Labour’s mess, that probably also includes the people you get to front your stories.