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She rocks, she rolls, but will she beat them at the polls?

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20080506
Author:Stephen McGinty

POLITICIANS have long ransacked the same familiar texts for inspiration and guidance. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, published in 1532, counselled that: "It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both, it is better to be feared than loved." And 2,000 years before, Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War: "If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will fight without danger in battles."

Yet it takes a visionary politician of the calibre of Wendy Alexander to look beyond the same old weary guidebooks and embark on the genuine blue-sky thinking required to discover gems ...

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