Am I getting through to you?
At the start of this year I set out in this blog post that Scotland really needed to talk about babies and specifically our fertility rate. I guess it's no surprise that a post entitled "We need to talk about babies" is just something politicians just don't want to talk about on any level. So despite emphatic evidence that our demographics are going to hurt us in many many ways, inside or outside of the union, we just don't want to talk about it. It reminded me of Rowan Atkinson's brilliant 1984 blood donation advert where he tried to literally get blood from a stone. "Am i getting through to you?" Apparently not... The post COVID trend So let me see if I can make this as simple as possible. For some time now I've been analysing the current birth and death rates in Scotland from 1974 until today. There was no question that COVID skewed both, but it's safe to say now that we seem to be through the short term effects on both births and