There is no doubt that over the past year we have been living through truly extraordinary times. There have been two reasons for this. Firstly,

AT THIS WEEK’S First Minister’s Questions, the LibDem leader Willie Rennie had his customary go at Nicola Sturgeon about testing. This time he focussed on

I became sceptical about the lockdown policy imposed by the government  early on and soon began to oppose it outright. I come from the socialist

NOW THAT we have satnav, it’s rare to feel the frustration of travelling in a car where the driver resolutely heads in the wrong direction

I lost a work colleague to Covid recently. I had not known he had been admitted to hospital, as his IT consultancy is based in

Below are two posts by Rod Grant, the headmaster of Clifton Hall School, an independent boys junior school in Edinburgh. He has given permission for

Hello Friends! I did an article for Think Scotland, published on 18th December on Deaths in Scotland for 2020, investigating deaths by cause and setting

Hello Friends! Here’s something for a Sunday…. As I’ve been updating the numbers on my charts from Scot Gov data on Covid, I’ve noticed a

This article first appeared on The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/lockdown-sceptics-are-societys-gadflies/ Lockdown sceptics are Socrates’ “gadflies”: the individuals who ask society the uncomfortable questions, like flies biting a