Month: February 2019

Aberdeenshire Council is being urged to scrap plans for a new waste incinerator with warnings that it could be harmful to public health, the environment and the local economy. The ...

Rachel Goldie, a designer working as part of the Kinworks team on the Tomorrow’s Older People project, says that town centres could become centers of digital learning while tackling loneliness and isolation, ...

Sean Bell reports from Motherwell, a town often defined by its history, but those working to combat poverty and austerity within the town are facing contemporary challenges BEYOND Motherwell's precincts, perception of the ...

Three part series on one person’s journey through the benefits system. IN PART 2, Anne has to deal with changes to the benefits system introduced by the Tory-Liberal Coalition Government in ...

Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that the independence movement’s attitude should be to build up – rather than knock down – those trying to change things for the better in Scotland IN 1979, ...

The United Nations’ ruling that the UK is obliged to relinquish the Chagos Archipelago will not be the last problem presented by the ‘British Overseas Territories’ APOLOGISTS for colonialism – ...

Scottish Greens demand further action as new Cosla guidance clarifies how local authorities can support those made destitute by UK immigration law Cosla states that Scottish local government has a ...

One of the EU’s most senior parliamentarians has said in an interview that the entry of an independent Scotland into the EU should be easy. The German veteran MEP Elmar ...

By Russell Bruce The PBS interview is a model of how events should be reported. The First Minister’s visit to the US has aroused a great deal of interest against ...

In this edition of the Dugcast, Callum Baird, the Dug, and I are joined by Anne McLaughlin, the former MP for Glasgow North East. This week we chat about Brexit, ...