Now is the time for bold initiatives to back social care

AS WE BEGIN to unlock the lockdown the government needs to be bold and take some genuinely radical initiatives. I would like to suggest two.

The Prime Minister recently announced that the ...

Freeman and Sturgeon should ‘fess up, be honest with us and move on

AT LAST, we are now seeing some signs of hope in the battle against Coronavirus.

At Renaissance Care, since our first resident tested positive for the disease on 3rd April, we ...

A new fishing agreement with Norway that works for us

THE PREVIOUS three articles in this series looked at the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway. The first two of these totted up who caught how much of what and where, whilst the third argued, on ...

Where's the Scottish Government transparency and equity over care homes?

WHEN THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT decided to seek emergency powers to allow it to take over independent sector care homes it deems have “fallen short” during the Covid-19 pandemic it felt like the Scottish Government was trying to ...

The Northern Agreements with Norway: what’s the point?

WHEREAS the previous two articles in this series, Do the Northern Agreements benefit Scotland and the UK? and The Northern Agreements: who benefits most? looked at what the EU and Norway have each got from their fisheries ...

Social care in Scotland should be respected and applauded

I HAVE NEVER been so proud, during thirty years involvement, to be an operator in the social care sector as I have been since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in March – here’s why.

The Northern Agreements: who benefits most?

THE PREVIOUS article in this series, The Northern Agreements: do they benefit Scotland and the UK?, examined the quantities of fish landed from UK and EU27 waters by the Norwegian fleet under the fishing agreement between ...

Scotland needs a shake-up – why not produce our own Beveridge reports?

CONSIDER THIS…

"After this crisis is over, people may well be in the mood for radical change in Scotland. We need to be sure (insert party name) is the party of radical ...

Fishing with Norway – do the Northern Agreements benefit Scotland and the UK?

THE EU HAS SIGNED so-called Northern Agreements with Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland to allow its fleets to fish in their waters in return for the right of the other party’s fleet to ...

Bridge Over Troublesome virus - playing bridge in the pandemic

I DON’T TEND to find myself with time on my hands. There is always plenty to do – I could, after all be tidying my two studies and spare bedroom, but I’d rather do anything ...

Saithe – a not so Auld Alliance

THE FRENCH have a taste for Saithe and the Saithe they are particularly fond of is Scottish. Nobody else in the EU lands anywhere near as much from Scottish waters – not even the Scots. ...

The growing scandal of how the Scottish Government treated our care homes

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 ...