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Jan 21, 2025 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
Opponents of Scottish Independence have enacted their strategy to weaken support and foster mistrust in the SNP by both questioning their ability to govern effectively and challenging devolved powers. Have the SNP learned the lessons of the ring? The SNP stand accused of believing their own hype – a self-confidence that has led to a breakdown in both support and a coherent path forward for the independence movement. I write more about that here.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) a study on the cost of long-term care (LTC-Care provided at home) and poverty among older adults. It highlighted the increasing rates of expenditure from public services as well as people’s own finances for the cost of such long-term care provided at home. In some instances, it was noted that individuals in OECD countries could be paying more than half of their total monthly income for the cost of care at home.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
In France, the Prime Minister has been removed by a vote of no-confidence. President Macron has led the country for the last 6 years. His legacy now appears to be a country in crisis and a badly run economy. French parliamentary representatives have just delivered the long-expected verdict on incumbent President Macronâs decision to appoint the conservative Michel Barnier (who negotiated Brexit on behalf of the EU) as Prime Minister.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
In France, the Prime Minister has been removed by a vote of no-confidence. President Macron has led the country for the last 6 years. His legacy now appears to be a country in crisis and a badly run economy. French parliamentary representatives have just delivered the long-expected verdict on incumbent President Macronâs decision to appoint the conservative Michel Barnier (who negotiated Brexit on behalf of the EU) as Prime Minister.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
The SNP led by Nicola Sturgeon have messed up a huge opportunity for the independence movement to participate in a second referendum for Scottish Independence, yet no one accepts responsibility. Hubris and political naivety alongside failure to see through a programme of government has led to a major loss of power. Within the UK there have been some major political and societal upheavals that could have garnered the necessary support for such an event yet have not.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
The Promise Scotland – a strategy set up to help implement the 2020 Scottish Care Review recommendations – recently launched Plan 24-30. This is intended as a roadmap for Scotland’s institutions and organisations to follow, to ensure that The Promise is put into effective practice. This is not the first plan. Indeed, the overall plan for The Promise – that every child grows up loved, safe, and respected – began in 2020 and is destined to end in 2030.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lorraina Robinson |Eric Goold |David Anderson |Robert C. Rennert
1 CLINICAL HISTORY AND IMAGING This case involves an 18-year-old female with no significant past medical history who was found to have a large pineal and third ventricular tumor with obstructive hydrocephalus after experiencing subacute, progressive headaches, and an acute episode of sudden vision loss. She underwent a ventriculoperitoneal shunt at an outside facility with improvement in her vision before presenting as a transfer to our facility.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | David Anderson
Can the genetic eukaryotic neurotic psychotic self-destructive discordant elements that are preventing humans from beginning a Phase Transition be constrained ? And If they can be constrained, then do humans have the intellectual strength and cohesiveness cooperatively to move on into a self-sustaining integrative Phase Reorganization that will assure continuation of human life and all other life on the planet ?
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
bylines.scot | David Anderson
Following a media proclamation regarding her position on the constitutional question of Scotland’s independence, the former Labour leader in Scotland – Kezia Dugdale recently tweeted that it was impossible to have a ‘nuanced debate’ in Scotland, which – to the detriment of Scottish society – left Scotland stuck in a ‘reductive holding loop’. Her tweet swirled in my mind as I considered it in the context of my own view on independence and how I have tried to add nuance to my thinking since 2014.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | David Anderson |Robert Hunziker
Albert Einstein told us that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.We now have an existential problem that our thinking has created; Biosphere change leading to the possibility of Homo sapiens extinction.What part of our thinking created the problem? What part of our thinking needs to change? XXXXFirst we need to answer these questions: When did our Biosphere co-relationship originate? When did it then become what it is today?
