Linda Holt article from Tuesday 5, May, 2020 FEW PEOPLE have reason to linger in care homes. Fewer still have the energy or will to think about them in the round after dealing with the guilt-ridden and traumatic experience of visiting a relative who no longer recognises you. The exorbitant cost of staying in a […]
AS PUBLIC DEBATE TURNS, no doubt prematurely, to when any release on our lock-down might begin I am reminded of an old Shetland tale. A drunk
AS PART OF ITS ANALYSIS of the EU’s database of fish catches has mapped landings for each of the EU members fishing in the UK for each
APPLETON TOWER is a striking sight on Edinburgh’s skyline and its five lecture theatres alone can house 1,200 students. It also serves as a hub
COMMENTARY on our present viral predicament is turning towards what happens when lockdown measures are released. The left, predictably, is calling for the end of global
AT LAST MONDAY’S Coronavirus briefing Housing Minister Robert Jendrick announced the UK was now on “an emergency footing” in a way “unprecedented” in peacetime. Even
WHEN Edinburgh Council went into an early recess and cancelled Committees, emails started coming in from a few constituents asking whether the current consultation Choices for
EVERYTHING IS GRIST to the nationalist mill, and there is no reason to think that the Covid-19 pandemic would be any exception. The weekend’s influx
Linda Holt article from Thursday 26, March, 2020 OVER THE WEEKEND, hordes of townies flooded into the countryside in search of refuge from the coronavirus. Curiously, however, no-one seems to have predicted this mass evacuation. The spectacle brought to mind the opening sequence of the 70s dystopian TV serial Survivors (pictured), which imprinted itself on my teenage mind. […]
YOU DON’T NEED ME to tell you that media coverage in Scotland has been hijacked by two major topics recently. The first, and most important
IF YOU HAVE EVER tried guddling for trout you will understand the trials of an observing economist in these strange times. We’re trained to stand away from received
I HAVE STARTED to read the Guardian; lucky me, but my journalism tutor always said we should “read the opposition” and not sit in the comfort