First Minister John Swinney has apologised to the Scottish gypsy traveller communities for a decades-long social experiment and its impacts. The “Tinker Experiment”, which lasted from 1940 until 1980, was a programme designed to integrate travellers into mainstream society. This included the forced and permanent removal of children from their families. Campaigners have long been calling for an apology from the Scottish Government, which finally came to fruition on Wednesday. “It falls to the Gov