I LIVE in a parallel universe.
In the one I inhabit, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation praised the Scottish Government’s Child Payment, free school meals and better benefits as managing to mitigate the disastrous wave of destitution sweeping Britain, this week. In the mainstream media’s version of reality, that didn’t happen. Or just wasn’t important.
Maybe I’m getting soft in my old age, but at several points during his 12-minute address to MSPs, I found myself close to tears. Online videos of their rallies held before the terrible events of October 7 are both impressive and incredibly sad. As they and so many others are trying to say – and as those brought up amid violent conflict know all too well – negotiation and empathy are the only things that ever bring peace.Keir Starmer's leadership skills have been absent during the Israel-Hamas conflict
The young Muslim guy in my local post office has finally noticed I write for The National and wanted to talk. He’s not convinced about. But he is convinced about Humza Yousaf: “The only person I’ve heard saying the right things in the right way.” Of course, the Scottish Government/Scotland/Holyrood and the SNP have always been ignored by the mainstream media – until they have problems. Let’s not be naive., the media seems to have bought Labour’s line that the electorate want to reject two tired governments, deciding SNP support is umbilically linked to Tory rule at Westminster and both are on their way out.
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