The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
From Covid-19 to a federal, socialist republic of Britain
TOM MORRISON argues we cannot squander this crisis — let’s not limit our horizons and break with Westminster and Holyrood for good

PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson is currently visiting Scotland, hoping to show the strength of the union.
His government’s woeful handling of the coronavirus crisis and the comparably better handling of the crisis by the devolved administrations would suggest otherwise.
While we may reserve criticism for the Scottish government’s initial tailgating of Johnson’s dithering approach to this crisis, moving wildly from the initial disastrous “herd immunity” strategy to the supposed following of more conventional science, it takes a certain breed of fool to think that the overseeing of thousands of needless deaths conjures up images of anything approaching strength.
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