A real headache
day job.
James Petticrew The problem here is that she would not have got this job without being a senior politician and leader of the Conservatives in Scotland. She has been appointed because of her contacts and influence which she has built up during her political career, during which she was remunerated from public funds. There needs to be a rethink about the system that allows the seamless transfer of senior politicians from “public service” to directly linked lobby posts where everything they have learnt during their political lives can be used to influence, mould and even delay and destroy legislation. These types of appointment are all about influence and building networks for the future.
Neil Chalmers
An expert group has been set up to investigate introducing concussion substitutes to football – and there have been calls for an immediate heading ban for children aged 14 and under.
Ban running in case they break a leg.
Stef Spode If you follow that line of thinking then you’d need to ban kids from horse riding, skiing, rugby, cricket, trampolining, judo, etc. The list goes on.
Craig Morris
Not entirely the same – football is the only sport where making contact with a ball using your head is an expressed aim of the sport
Stewart Kirkwood
You can’t ban anybody from doing anything. You can point out that there may be health issues associated with sport of all sorts but you can’t just ban this and ban that. If someone wants to bang their head off a tree then let them. We haven’t banned boxing or many other contact sports.
Harry Hughes
So, science proves a thing. Then the opinions of people who don’t care about science, apparently prevail . . . and science is crushed under the weight of knee-jerk, uninformed ranting. Evolution seems to have stopped.
Deborah Hopkins
I can see why it’s been awarded it – if you look at it properly it has a curve in it – it’s not just any old concrete car park. It’s great that Brutalism is still being recognised and given heritage status as most buildings are deemed to be eyesores and demolished. I would cite the one on St Andrew Square which too was given a listing but ultimately demolished for another glass-fronted generic design.
Martin Dunne
At this rate it won’t be long until the yet-to-be-completed “dog turd” hotel gets listed.
Steven Oliver
At least they can’t bulldoze that one for student flats.
Rachel Skilling