Poll: 88% back a legal right to adequate housing in Scottish law
14,000 children in Scotland are homeless YouGov poll finds 88 per cent believe there should be a legal right to a safe, secure and affordable home, with 76 per cent ...
Month: August 2019
The Remit and Terms of Reference of the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a Citizens’ Assembly on Scotland’s constitutional future in April. The Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland has today published the details of its remit and terms of reference, ...
SNP MP calls on UK Government to apologise over ‘misleading’ EU citizen settlement status adverts
Just over one million EU citizens have so far applied for UK settlement status Advertising Standards Authority rules that UK Government advert on EU citizens’ settlement status scheme are “misleading”, ...
Why a Green New Deal is Needed…Now.
In the face of the world’s climate emergency, a Green New Deal has been proposed to address it. AHEAD of CommonSpace’s forum on a Green New Deal on Thursday 29th ...
UK Government to prorogue parliament: Reaction round-up
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ask the Queen to suspend parliament ahead of a Queen’s Speech on 14 October, with parliament prorogued for five weeks from the week beginning 10 ...
‘The case for independence needs to be inclusive’: Patrick Harvie talks indyref2, the Climate Bill and Amazon fires at the Fringe
The Scottish Green co-leader discussed the future of the party, the economics underpinning the climate emergency, and the responsibility of detailing how independence can change Scotland Patrick Harvie comments that ...
1971 to 2019: Bringing the story of the Chagos Islands to the Fringe
CommonSpace speaks to Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, writer and director of Chagos 1971 2019, it turns out, was a fateful year to bring a play to the Edinburgh Fringe examining the injustice ...
Put that in a graph
Ruth Davidson has gone, and the gushing eulogies from clueless people who know the square root of hee haw about Scottish politics are already in full flow. All of them ...
Scottish Tories locate their Ruth-less streak
So there have been two big developments in Scottish politics today (so far - the day is young!). One is unalloyed good news for the SNP, the Yes movement, and ...
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