Who knew that death cults were on Police Scotland’s radar? Certainly not the family and friends who went to drink and be merry on Loch Leven, only to find their Sunday night campsite the focus of emergency service searchlights and helicopter swoops.
It is time to take the NHS out of political control. The political management of our health service doesn’t work and ultimately sabotages the NHS.
Before we leave 2017 forever, let’s recall a strange moment – a speech that summed up Scotland’s predicament in 2018 but which has been wiped from our collective memory.
Can you afford a home? Many of us can’t, mostly through an accident of age. If you were born before 1970 and bought by the 1990s, prices were yet to boom.
The small guy is always the last to know. This seems a pattern of modern business and economics, that insiders have a heads-up on impending disaster while the small operators or the ordinary citizen is out in the cold.
History walks the streets of Barcelona this morning. Catalans go to the polls in a make-or-break vote – if nationalist parties win, then independence for the region looks inevitable. That would have consequences for Spain, the EU and for Scotland.