WITH SCOTTISH EXCESS DEATHS approaching 6,000 for 2020 it is critically important we identify the causes of excess mortality. Historically, this has been an unprecedented
THE GRAPH BELOW of drug deaths in Scotland is so bad it looks like fake news. But this is real. As a GP I
THE FAILURE of the UK Government over the last four years to resolve the Brexit impasse – coupled with its incoherent response to the Covid
VICTIMHOOD has always been the core of nationalism. We are oppressed by Them: if we were free, our problems would be solved. This has been the lure of
THERE IS A PERCEPTION in Britain that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have handled the Coronavirus pandemic well. Support for Scottish independence has, apparently, been
GLOBAL HISTORIANS ARE very interested in what they call ‘The European Miracle’, the title of a famous book, which has gone through several editions, by
THERE COULD NOT be a worse time to break up Britain, yet listening to Nicola Sturgeon you would think it was the great panacea for
ThinkScotland article from Wednesday 2, December, 2020 An open letter signed by nearly 500 health professionals and scientists has been sent to the Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford. The letter, entitled “First do no harm” – the medical principle that a cure must never be worse than the disease itself – argues that […]
REMEMBER that heady time after Better Together when Ruth Davidson seemed to be leading a Scottish Conservative renaissance, throwing off the crusty old image of
THE TIMES REPORTED last year that increasing numbers of young people want a strong leader. Two thirds of younger voters are in favour of “strongman leaders” prepared to
FROM A MORAL PERSPECTIVE, empire, which by definition implies conquest, can never be justified. Yet for most of world history empire was the normal mode
Michael Banks article from Wednesday 25, November, 2020 THE 2014 INDYREF required only a Scotland-wide simple majority of valid votes cast. If there were to be a repeat an IndyRef2 should, conversely, require a simple majority of the registered electorate. In the 2014 IndyRef the only Scottish Parliament Electoral Region to vote "Yes" (for independence) was […]