Month: November 2018

The latest in Phantom Power and Lesley Riddoch’s Nation series. The Norway film tells the story of Scotland’s twin nation. We have the same population, share the oil, gas and ...

I've been out enjoying Bonfire Night, so I wasn't watching Channel 4's big Brexit show, and I'm trying to make sense of the Scottish figures from their Survation mega-poll, based ...

@WingsScotland @KennethMLK People laugh at Grenfell because theyre racist trash. The effigy showed brown folk & hijabi. Poverty & race are not unrelatedHowever, that five nobodies have been arrested for ...

There was a certain uncomfortable 2018 inevitability this morning over the fact that where people were offended, arrests would follow. And the burning of a cardboard model of the Grenfell ...

In the end there was very little point in fleshing out last night's blogpost about the Survation mega-poll, because a lot of what had been reported about it on social ...

MI5 have now been handed the brief for investigating fascist terrorism. But where has the state been as this problem grew? Why was this danger not confronted after the attacks ...

Teachers union general secretary argues Scottish Government underspend could settle pay claim “with cash to spare” THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND (EIS) is confident of both a large turnout and ...

Budget reaction from Richard Murphy, Craig Dalzell, Positive Money, Inclusion Scotland, Poverty Alliance, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network and the Child Poverty Action Group Scotland THE Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered ...

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray analyses the politics of the Budget – can the party of ‘the age of austerity’ really sell a new Corbyn-lite image? THE Chancellor is increasing the deficit. ...

Commonspace columnist David Carr says Scotland’s “toxic obsession” with oil must end and urgent planning to avert climate catastrophe must begin THE UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent report has ...