“We should celebrate this successful step forward as loudly as we can, but we should also then consider our next step. The demands of the climate emergency mean that we do need to radically overhaul our transport network.”
Craig Dalzell
“We now know what the UK is going to look like in the final years before we reach those irreversible climate tipping points and the planet stops caring how fast our economy is growing. With Scottish elections and possibly another independence referendum now looming, it’s time for the various parties to show their support for an alternative future”
Analysis: UK Budget 2021
“Look again at the response taken in Australia to a single positive Covid case. If you can’t imagine Scotland doing the same when a city here records a single case outwith quarantine, then I’m afraid that we’ll be back in another national lockdown against all too soon.”
Analysis: Welcome to the Hotel Covid
“It takes more than a headline to change a country. The policies must match up too. And this is where the government all too easily slips back into old language, old rhetoric and old ideas of the old ‘normal’ of the pre-pandemic world.”
Analysis: Scottish Budget 2021-22
“Slowly, too slowly, Scotland has been adopting the tools used by other countries that have avoided what the virus has done here. To say this isn’t an improvement would be wrong, but to say that we have been fine without them is worse.”
Analysis: Counting the Covid cost
“By putting energy into fighting in unison, this deeply unequal Union might yet die a peaceful death that enables each nation to rise from the ashes strengthened, able to shake off the soot of medieval power-hoarding and class conflict in favour of progressive, local democracy.”
The Pressure series: Forward – not in unity, but in solidarity
“It would be thoroughly hypocritical for a party to go into the election next year professing to be upholding the democratic rights of a country while suppressing the democratic rights of its own members.”
Analysis: Why has the SNP conference dropped all members’ motions?
“If the plan is to do what is best for Scotland, perhaps it’s time to recognise that following failing plans from the UK has resulted in Scotland failing almost as badly.”
Craig Dalzell: The Scottish Government cannot hide behind Boris Johnson’s strategy
“The lesson of the last spike was that when infections are growing exponentially, and you are following the same trend as a country that is a few weeks ahead of you, then the horrific sights of full ICUs and entire cities locked to standstill will happen to you too.”
Analysis: New restrictions must reflect a genuine elimination strategy
“Regardless of any promise the current government might make before next year’s election, we’re unlikely to see meaningful land reform inside the next parliament.”