Background Foot and Mouth Assessment

The FMD Assessment, from March 2001
http://celticlion.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/foot-and-mouth-assessment/
was sent to Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond in August 2007, by a SNP Councillor, to assist with the new outbreak. A background was also requested, in order to understand it’s previous political significance.
In February 2001 at the onset of the FMD outbreak I started modelling the course of the disease [...]

Alex Salmond’s Celtic Lion A Cultural view

The Scottish Nationalist Party waited more than 70 years until in May 2007, under the leadership of First Minister Alex Salmond, they formed the new Scottish Government. After an election campaign of pure genius, ideas, music, graphics and more contributing to the attrition of the Labour lead, the country waited for the next big idea.
On [...]