Scotland’s Covid Reckoning
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Scotland’s Covid Reckoning
In a new podcast series, James Foley and Ewan Kerr interview key players and experts in Scotland's Covid saga. Cutting through mythology and posturing, they will ask the big questions about democracy, governance, class and power so often obscured in recent years.
In the first episode, James and Ewan speak to Neil Findlay, former Labour MP and arch critic of the Scottish Government's handling of the Covid pandemic. They discuss the insults levelled at Findlay in uncovered government Whatsapp chats, what light the Covid inquiry casts on Sturgeonism in general, and the scandal of Covid era deaths in Scottish care homes.
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And, in another Patreon exclusive, David Jamieson and Jonathon Shafi talk to James about what we've learned from the Covid Inquiry.
Nicola Sturgeon's handling of the pandemic was taken up by liberal technocrats globally as a beacon of good governance. With her fall from grace, she now attracts condemnation. But is this a reckoning with difficult truths, or another way to evade deeper problems in Scottish governance?
Look out for the next in the series, as we interview top experts and analysts to explore the Covid enquiry, and the longterm political and economic impacts of the pandemic.