Local history, social policy, disability, technology and the odd bit of wildlife. Evidence first, opinion labelled as opinion.https://jasonboyd.scot/en-gbhttps://jasonboyd.scot/writing/hartwood/https://jasonboyd.scot/writing/hartwood/Hartwood asylum's most famous facts were made up, while its real dead lay nameless for decades. What the records, the cemetery and the families show, and who Scotland still keeps in hospital today.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorydisabilitypolicyblog@jasonboyd.scothttps://jasonboyd.scot/writing/the-suit-is-a-costume/https://jasonboyd.scot/writing/the-suit-is-a-costume/A man is charged over a machete attack in Edinburgh and the news cycle files him under lone wolf. He is not the story. He is what the pipeline produces.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyblog@jasonboyd.scothttps://jasonboyd.scot/writing/we-are-not-a-problem-to-be-managed/https://jasonboyd.scot/writing/we-are-not-a-problem-to-be-managed/Scotland has hundreds of thousands of neurodivergent adults and not one party at Holyrood willing to take them seriously. I asked them all before the 2026 election. The answers still matter.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdisabilitypolicyblog@jasonboyd.scothttps://jasonboyd.scot/writing/reclaiming-democracy/https://jasonboyd.scot/writing/reclaiming-democracy/Political trust is collapsing while inequality climbs, and the people in charge have done nothing serious about either. Here is what would.Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTpolicyblog@jasonboyd.scothttps://jasonboyd.scot/writing/broken-britain/https://jasonboyd.scot/writing/broken-britain/Britain's economic crisis was not an accident. It is the result of political decisions, made by people, that could be unmade the same way.Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTwelfarepolicyblog@jasonboyd.scot