Month: July 2019

Environmental campaigners have called on the Scottish Government’s economic development agency not to spend taxpayers’ money subsidising a controversial new form of underwater mining. A report commissioned by Scottish Enterprise ...

I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks, to spend some time with my husband. I’m back on 31 July. Unfortunately Sam Miller (Macart) isn’t able to look after ...

Until very recently, Wikipedia's list of UK opinion polls was immaculately inclusive - it had a separate column for each party that enjoyed a non-trivial level of support.  So the ...

Prospective new Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson was interviewed on Sky News this morning, where she made the usual honking mess of the admittedly-impossible task that is trying to justify her ...

Scottish ministers have come under fire after extending a licence for the Grangemouth petrochemical giant, Ineos, to frack for shale gas in the central belt. The Scottish Government has decided ...

Two decades after the Scottish Parliament was reconvened, CommonSpace asks campaigners, journalists and politicians about what they think the parliament’s biggest success and biggest disappointment is TODAY marks the 20th anniversary ...

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We suspect that LBC’s Iain Dale might have been reading this morning’s Wings article before he interviewed Jo Swinson tonight. We can only hope any subsequent Scottish interviewers do as ...

Independent report commissioned by the Scottish Government argues new enterprise agency can drive “sustainable and inclusive growth” New report calls for integrated, sustainable transport strategy for the South of Scotland ...

Bombs and missiles will still be exported to Saudi Arabia under a secretive licensing system that means business as usual for defence firms despite a landmark ruling that UK arms ...