Listen carefully and the sound you hear at Holyrood these days is that of air escaping from a balloon. For a long time, I had supposed that the Scottish parliament would eventually support Liam McArthur’s bill to legalise assisted dying.
This, it seemed, was an idea whose time had come and since our MSPs are herd animals it seemed likely that they would embrace the possibility of joining the worldwide progressive alliance in favour of assisted dying.
