Forward to the hibernation economy – Source by qwertyfan April 15, 2020 0 A flurry of forecasts of economic doom arrived yesterday, though there’s good reason to think they were over-optimistic in their ...
Shellfish businesses offered funding to cope with coronavirus crisis by qwertyfan April 18, 2020 0 Shellfish businesses across Scotland have been offered emergency financial help by ministers on the eve of a report by The ...
Government ministers are trying to gaslight us again: no, the UK death toll is not “lower than the modellers expected”. It’s considerably higher. by qwertyfan April 18, 2020 0 As you may have seen, BuzzFeed have another exclusive - this time a supposed leak of the government's exit strategy. ...
EU procurement and Number 10’s deceit by qwertyfan April 22, 2020 0 A strange and worrisome thing happened in the British government yesterday. Sorry, that’s not a particularly helpful sentence. These days ...
Loneliness and Self-Isolation: Longterm Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis – Source by qwertyfan April 14, 2020 0 Voluntary Health Scotland produced a report back in November 2018 exploring loneliness and social isolation amongst Scotland’s under-represented demographics (BAME, ...
Channel 4 show accused of promoting anti-Traveller myths by qwertyfan April 21, 2020 0 The award-winning current affairs programme, Dispatches, has been condemned for a documentary aired on Channel 4 about crime and Traveller ...
Birds of prey ‘in danger’ during coronavirus lockdown by qwertyfan April 15, 2020 0 Thousands of sites used by birds of prey will go unmonitored for the first time in almost two decades due ...
‘Left behind and ignored’ – Glasgow’s derelict buildings by qwertyfan April 19, 2020 0 For Helen Carroll, the Talisman is more than a derelict building – it is a symbol of the way ...
Robin McAlpine: The lack of a Scottish virus strategy is a national crisis – Source by qwertyfan April 14, 2020 0 Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. ...
The biggest test of Nicola Sturgeon’s career: she must insist that Scotland’s lockdown remains in force until it can be safely replaced with a credible ‘test, trace, isolate’ plan to suppress the epidemic – and if that means facing down the right-wing London media and the Tory ‘hawks’, so be it. by qwertyfan April 19, 2020 0 Decisions need to be solidly based & not premature. We don’t yet know what will be possible & when. @scotgov ...