US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

But, Roy added, the Treasury and the Department of Work and Pensions are coming back to perceived unaffordability of Westminster’s welfare budget, so we can expect new approaches to cuts and reduced entitlement. If that goes ahead, Holyrood will find itself facing further cuts in block grant.

“Being on the screen, it keeps us looking at the external world. When we go into our internal world and we sort of stare into space, into the middle distance, it allows us to think about the past, it allows us to visualise the future, it predicts creativity.