This Pandemic is forcing us to confront the excesses of individualism where people are saying they have a right not to wear masks if they don’t want to, or to not socially distance if they don’t want to.
Month: September 2020
Lib Dems reveal quarantine spot check numbers are sloping off
Willie Rennie said:”It’s frankly ridiculous that despite my weeks of questioning the blatant failings with the quarantine spot check system haven’t been ironed out.
Speaker slams PM for lowering tone of debate with Starmer IRA accusation
He also told listeners that he and House leader Jacob Rees-Mogg had considered introducing a rule forcing MPs to wear face masks in order to allow more members to be physically present at the same time.
STURGEON UNVEILS PLANS FOR INDYREF2
She told MSPs that at next year’s Holyrood election she will “make the case for Scotland to become an independent country, and seek a clear endorsement of Scotland’s right to choose our own future”.
Andrew O’Hagan: ‘If you are honest, you never stop being who you were’
In his writing over the years, O’Hagan has painted an affectionate portrait of himself as a young man. He was the boy who stowed books in a bread tin under his bed, hidden from the sneers of his dad, a violent alcoholic; the kid with more interest in “history and flowers” than Celtic FC. Having three older brothers helped him survive. “I mean I was openly expressing interest in Virginia Woolf at school – that was basically asking to be battered. But they were quite tough my brothers, so kids left me alone.”
LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION AT DUMBARTON
The murderer from the first exhibited no remorse for his deed, and went through his trial and sentence with a stolid indifference, which he maintained to the last, although his pale face and haggard appearance betokened much selfish suffering.