Month: June 2020

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New proposals to mine peat at a site in South Lanarkshire are “not consistent” with the Scottish Government’s targets to cut carbon pollution, a leading climate scientist has warned. A ...

By Russell Bruce A bit of dark humour is good for lightening the clouds of Covid-19. If you have not seen it, this video from Jim Keatings is well worth ...

If you're starting to feel like you've taken out a subscription to the Daily Telegraph by mistake, it may be because you've been reading a few too many Herald columns ...

More than five million animal welfare, contamination and processing problems have led to meat being deemed unsafe for humans in Scotland since 2016. Data obtained under freedom of information law ...

A guest post by The Digital Scottish Covenant team The purpose of a Referendum is to formally document a verifiable majority in support of a particular course of action, but ...

Do you know about the Covid Corporate Financing Facility? Well, don’t beat yourself up if the answer’s ‘no’, very few do. You’ll find it scarcely reported in today’s papers. In ...

LAST WEEK, advocates of animal welfare welcomed the progress of the Scottish Government’s Animal and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill, which passed unanimously at stage one in March ...

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is set to take questions today from MSPs on the care homes crisis, the eye of the Covid-19 storm in Scotland.  Yesterday’s weekly National Records of ...

UK politicians have been forced to adapt to the Covid-19 outbreak like many others, with councils and parliaments experimenting with the new online tools that allow people to meet and ...