The SNP, having been taken as much by surprise as everybody else by the recent pestilence, have kept their powder dry for as long as it takes to devise a grievance manufacture approach for the immediate circumstances. Until about now that is, when Sturgeon is said to be about to announce divergent policies. And so,… Read more: Four Predictions on Scotland’s Coronavirus Policy Divergence

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one as for the other. But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind—if either forgets that we think of such things only… Read more: Careful What You Whinge For : Reflections on 20 Years of Manufactured Grievance