Page 9 - Derek Ball News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

IN June I wrote in these pages how eradicating the virus would mean closing the Border with England and other neighbours. While that would be heartbreaking, it would be necessary to keep us safe. The science has now shown that we were close to joining countries such as Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand in being Covid-free and having no everyday restrictions, but then travelling abroad and to England brought it back in. While the reaction from Unionists and independence supporters alike to the idea of closing the Border to England was strongly against when Nicola Sturgeon mentio...

Letters Andy Wightman has resigned from the Scottish Greens after being threatened with disciplinary action over the vote on the Forensic Medical Services Bill ANDY Wightman has been the Green Party’s most effective parliamentarian so his loss should produce serious heart-searching (Wightman quits Greens over lack of debate on gender row, December 19). It is also a prompt to many of us who have views on the trans debate, but who have chosen not to engage with it, to step forward. In my case not because I wanted to avoid controversy but because in a world of huge social and economic ineq...