Another swift & showery 25 minutes. April may have been the driest month on record, but May is obviously trying to be the wettest, at least in the Western Highlands.
Six months ago, Neal Ascherson wrote, in an excellent article in the Herald*, that “the present Scottish government has become the last bastion of faith in a public-service state” as the UK’s 30 year stampede towards privatisation has led to the worst economic and social inequalities for 90 years. Six months on, that bastion may be wet but it is even stronger, and it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there has never been a better time to move for independence. Thank you David Cameron & George Osborne, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher (a form of words I never expected to be using ! )
Signs of hope in Japan too, where the Prime Minister has scrapped plans to build 14 new nuclear plants, and focussed the energy strategy on making its existing plants safer, and on conservation and renewables.
* Thanks to Donald Mackinnon for passing on the article
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