Month: April 2020

The Scottish Human Rights Commission have published a report on the Scottish Budget, highlighting the impact of inequality during the Covid-19 crisis and the need to increase transparency when it ...

When the inevitable inquiry takes place into what’s happened in care homes in Scotland during this crisis, there will undoubtedly be myriad reasons identified for why the necessary protections were ...

By Russell Bruce 29th April marked 100 days of WHO (World Health Organisation) daily reports on Covid-19. This is the first major epidemic to hit Europe and the US to ...

Here is something curious. At the end of a detailed report on The Daily Business about the Herald & Times leaving their Glasgow office due to financial concerns, it ended with this ...

Tibetans are being forced to display pictures of Xi Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders in their homes, according to human rights campaigners. The policy was previously only ...

I’ve blogged every single day of lockdown without a break, so today I’m putting my feet up, lying on the sofa, and am going to binge watch sci-fi.  To keep ...

THERE was a morbid inevitability in the way the crisis of the North East industry has been used since oil prices collapsed. In Scotland, if it can be weaponised in ...

Anyone up for their taxes being used to bail out Scottish newspapers? No, we didn’t think so. It’s always a bit weird when the very people who are ostensibly least ...

Yesterday the British Government finally began to include deaths from covid-19 recorded outside hospitals in England in the statistics it is giving daily and has added these to the figure ...

Analysis of new ONS data by John Hopkins University in the US suggests that the UK’s five-day average for Covid-19 deaths is higher than any other European country for this ...