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THE English author Jojo Moyes' best-selling ode to assisted dying, Me Before You has probably done more to shape public opinion on euthanasia than any number of parliamentary debates and earnest reports. It made assisted suicide seem…

THE English author Jojo Moyes' best-selling ode to assisted dying, Me Before You has probably done more to shape public opinion on euthanasia than any number of parliamentary debates and earnest reports. It made assisted suicide seem…

THE height of a third wave of a deadly pandemic might seem an odd time to say how lucky we are. But of course we are incredibly fortunate this Christmas: we have a range of life-saving vaccines delivered in record time. Around 9 billion…

HAVE yourself a merry little Christmas – with no unnecessary socialising and your lateral flow test result prominently displayed. We have now to take Omicron seriously, it seems, as cases rise. Though it's hard to fear something that…

HOW dare she! Greta Thunberg has questioned Nicola Sturgeon's pretensions as a world leader on climate change. In a BBC interview she suggested the Scottish Government is all green PR and that climate targets are bogus. She's still…

Beware nationalists bearing gifts. The Scottish Greens may live to regret their involvement with the SNP, the most ruthlessly centralist party in British politics. The SNP is a hydrocarbon party and Nicola Sturgeon gives nothing, but…

IT seems you don’t just get cancelled for saying sex is real, but for saying climate change could be solved. Last week, I wrote a column in The Herald arguing for a Covid-style collaboration between the state, universities and big…

DOGGER Bank used to be a land bridge to Europe before it was flooded by climate change around 6000 years ago. So it is fitting that “Doggerland”, now located beneath the North Sea, is in the forefront of the battle against modern climate…

A key climate change commission placed a bomb under the environmental debate last week. The National Infrastructure Commission, which advises the UK government on progress (or not) to Net Zero, published a report saying it cannot be met…