Month: March 2020

Fit for the job? Jonathan McColl, Nicola Sturgeon and Derek Mackay. By The Editor Mental health. It is said that one in four of us

Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said: “This is an extraordinary moment and one that requires a collective response. It is a moment when the ethos of the Special Constabulary – supporting Scottish communities and local policing – has never been more relevant. 

Jackie Baillie MSP, member of Holyrood’s economy committee and Scottish Labour deputy leadership candidate, said:  “Retail workers are going above and beyond at this incredibly challenging time.

There has been nothing like this in my lifetime.  But if, as a society, we emerge having learned no lessons, the conceit of invulnerability undisturbed, then it will all have been for nothing. The first obvious one is about the power of the state as a force for good.  We are ritually conditioned to denigrate state spending and enterprise as if they were fifth-rate impediments to the genius of the private sector.