This, everyone agrees, is no time for politics as normal. We are – all of us – engaged in a great national struggle. Partisanship is for yesterday and tomorrow; these are different times and the ordinary rules of politics have been suspended.
Even so, the occasional green shoot of normality can still be seen and for some of us this is a joyous thing indeed. So yesterday I was delighted to see the Scottish government announce that an inconvenient and controversial review of Scottish education, due to be led by officials from the OECD, will not report its findings until June 2021 at the earliest.
Elections to the Scottish parliament are due to be held in May 2021 and clearly there is no connection between these two events, just as there is no connection between the election date and the fact that the Scottish government’s proposed reforms to gender recognition laws have also been delayed until some, as yet unspecified, time after the election.
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