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A prologue Last Monday, I wrote what I thought was a draft blog as the third part of my ongoing "J'Accuse" rant about Scotland...

For four and a half years in the mid 2000s, I was the legal equivalent of Larry Flanagan. As Convener of the legal aid committee of the Law ...

Now, obviously the schools had to close. We had no idea of the virulence of Coronavirus back in March and it is not just with the benefit of...

Foreword I want to start by saying that in what follows I am talking about the Scottish Education because that is where I live but nothing t...

I want to start by saying something that might surprise you. The number of deaths in Scottish care homes is a scandal and Nicola Sturgeon...

I have never been impressed by argument founded on anecdote. If I rail against "I know someone with eight children who has never worked...

About a fortnight before the closedown, I received an email from a young, recently qualified, colleague working for another local firm. She ...