Month: May 2020

It’s now more than a month since this site revealed the widespread breach by a number of Scottish journalists/newspapers of the legally-protected anonymity of one of the accusers in the ...

In this week’s edition of the Dugcast fae the Dughoose I’m joined via Skype by SNP MP Joanna Cherry, the party’s spokesperson for Justice and Home Affairs. Joanna talks about ...

Laws weakening freedom of information (FoI) rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because opposition MSPs have united against them. In April the Scottish ...

We were a bit startled to be leaked this early draft from the 2021 SNP manifesto: We’re sure it’ll be softened up a bit in the editing process. We jest, ...

Common Weal head of policy & research Craig Dalzell continues his series on the economic impact of the Coronavirus by looking at global shipping. There is an aspect of our ...

Allan Crosbie, national executive member of the EIS teaching union, says he wants to feel like a teacher, not an SQA clerk – the response of educational authorities to Covid-19 ...

A group of unions, charities, campaign groups and think-tanks have written to First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon urging her to commit to Crown Use Licensing for any Covid-19 vaccines ...

We spoke to Kirsty Haigh from the Food for Good coalition, who are providing food to people in need during this Covid-19 crisis, about food poverty, food systems, and the ...

This is the sort of point that sounds sophisticated but is actually very silly. Allowing so-called 'low risk' people to be infected is in fact an extremely high risk thing ...

Ever since this crisis started the response of the Conservatives in London has been characterised by confusion, tardiness, lies, and venality. There has been one unforced error after another, the ...