Month: July 2018

A social worker from Lanarkshire argues that her profession is integral to holding together society and challenging injustice but is treated with contempt – it’s time social workers began sticking up for themselves ...

A hunger strike was announced at the demonstration by some of those who are facing eviction HUNDREDS gathered in Glasgow on Tuesday to express outrage at an announcement by the ...

by Katherine SandersTweet Follow @Butterfly_Reb The last two – no, four – years have been something of a rollercoaster for most folk I know. The febrile, venomous campaigning before IndyRef1 ...

By Dorothy Bruce Dorothy Bruce fears her grandchildren will be approaching retirement by the time the untried experiment of Brexit might be known Divide and rule has always been a ...

A report has just been published by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. The House of Commons report was written by anti-independence MPs, largely ...

This year’s Icon Awards were canceled at the last minute after the entire board resigned  THE ICON AWARDS should be “consigned to history” in the wake of a series of controversies ...

The hard Brexit think-tank is being investigated after an undercover sting showed think tank bosses offering US donors access to government ministers in exchange for funding  THINKTANKS which are not ...

As the infamous academic prepares to speak in Scotland, we should focus less on imaginary threats and more on what the self-help guru’s popularity says about us SPECULATIVE FICTION is ...

CommonSpace looks at the facts behind the "humanitarian crisis" facing Glasgow and dominating the headlines HUNDREDS of asylum seekers are facing the threat of homelessness in Glasgow after a shock ...

Subscribers to iScot magazine might remember that for my December 2017 column, I made a series of non-predictions for the year ahead.  That is to say, I made the point ...