Dr Jonathan Sher

IF you can read this article, then thank your “neural tube” (as well as your primary school teacher). This tiny but mighty structure became your brain, central nervous system and spinal cord. Astonishingly, everyone’s neural tube is completely formed (or malformed) by the end of the fourth week of pregnancy.

WESTMINSTER has not covered itself in glory over the past year, especially in relation to Scotland and Brexit. Holyrood has been – and been seen as being – more democratic, fair and sensible, at least when viewed from north of the Border.