Comment: A couple of days ago, the BBC Reporter, Glen Campbell, remarked - in a throwaway comment at the end of his report on the Scottish evening news programme - that we would not be returning to life as we knew it prior to "the virus". There would be, he said "a new normal" and...
Professor Julie Fitzpatrick graduated from Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine with the McCall Award for most outstanding veterinary student, and has worked principally on UK and global livestock health and welfare in the last three decades. She is currently chairwoman of both the UK Science Partnership for Animal and Plant Health and the UK...
Comment: As talk in Scotland is turning to the May elections for Holyrood, Catholics need to listen closely to Neil Oliver's observations about the way the SNP Government has damaged Scotland. More to the point for us, however, is the fact that the SNP is no friend of religion in general, and certainly no friend...
The following letter was penned by our very own Athanasius aka Martin Blackshaw and sent to the Scottish Government Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman SNP, on 16 February, 2021. After briefly outlining some practical examples of how this past year has adversely affected families, Martin continues... You will never be able to comprehend the mental and...
Comment: Martin Luther King, as pointed out in the above video, quotes Catholic teaching on unjust laws to legitimise the civil uprisings in the USA against the segregation of black people from the rest of the population. King points out that those who invoke this right to disobey unjust civil laws must be prepared to...
Martin Blackshaw, aka blogger Athanasius writes... Dear Bishops of Scotland, As we reach the tenth month of a relatively harmless Chinese Flu pandemic, the global governmental response to which will surely one day be recorded for posterity as the greatest crime ever perpetrated against humanity, I thought I would take the opportunity at the beginning of...
Comment: This was inevitable. At the first mention of a possible easing of restrictions over Christmas, complaints were raised by "the experts" and those who are demonically keen to keep us all locked down and under strict surveillance, come what may. We were told that a drastic lockdown would have to be imposed in January,...
Comment: Are we being prepared for Chinese Communist domination? Is this why we are being kept in our homes, restricted in our movements, told what is and is not "essential" for us to buy? A friend tells me that Christmas cards don't seem to be on the list of "essential" items, at least not when...
England was plunged back into coronavirus pain today as Boris Johnson confirmed a long list of new lockdown rules - and warned they'll go on for "perhaps six months". All citizens are being told to work from home if they can with immediate effect - and from Thursday, all pubs, restaurants and even kebab shops...
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