by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:

Isn’t it a bit odd that we’re halfway through a General Election and yet the political parties have not sought to discuss their or their opponent’s record during the pandemic, asks Brian Monteith in the Scotsman. Here’s an excerpt.

It is a conspiracy of silence, an omertà between combatants that has not even required them to speak to each other to agree the code. Why should such a potential mass-scale existential event – the likes of which Hollywood horror movies are made about – not be a core issue?