Month: April 2020

Just when you thought that things couldn’t possibly get any worse in a universe in which Boris Johnson is Prime Minister, Donald Trump is the president of the USA, billionaire ...

As you may have seen, the Scottish Government have today published a document setting out the principles that will guide the eventual and phased easing of the lockdown.  It ticks ...

Remember Brexit? Remember those halcyon days when the worst thing that we thought was going to happen was leaving the EU without a deal? While we are focussed on the ...

A leading Scottish university has been condemned for a secretive contract with Saudi Arabia after a new report revealed that the Gulf state executed 184 people last year – including ...

On the question of whether the Scottish Government should diverge from any UK decisions about the lockdown, my own attitude is similar to the one Boris Johnson used to pretend ...

The Scottish Government’s new ‘Framework for Decision-Making‘ document is worth 20 minutes of your time. It sets out a sound set of principles in which to move forward on the ...

News reports and a number of social media posts claimed that the first person to participate in the Oxford University trial testing a new coronavirus vaccine had died. A news ...

More than half a million pounds has been donated to Scottish NHS charities to help them respond to the Covid-19 outbreak, with more cash to come in coming months. The ...

Of the UK-based scientific experts who were brave enough to speak out vociferously against the 'herd immunity' madness from the start, I'm aware of only one who has been given ...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is on a search for a “new normal”. She wrote over the weekend that when “the kaleidoscope of our lives is shaken there ...