Month: June 2020

The Catholic Church has been told to act swiftly to shut down groups across Scotland promoting gay conversion therapy after local community, school and university priests were linked to an ...

Lawyers representing thousands of women who secured the largest equal pay settlement in Scottish history are planning legal action against Strathclyde Pension Fund over delays to ensuring the payout is ...

Scotland is making significant progress in tackling the coronavirus epidemic. For the past three days there have been no reported deaths from covid-19 in the country. It’s a small but ...

ON 16 MARCH, a few days after abandoning ‘contact, trace and isolate’, the UK and Scottish governments introduced three new measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and protect people. ...

Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the past few months, Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine ...

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm the guest on the latest edition of the podcast A Broken World, hosted by Grant Parker.  It was recorded just ...

“STURGEON’S hopes destroyed: Scotland’s economic collapse will end independence bid”. The headline from the Daily Express of 11 June shows how some still believe (or pretend), despite all the mounting ...

It was brought to my attention the other night that a few people have been falsely claiming that my position on "tactical voting on the list" has changed, and that ...

A row has broken out between the private company responsible for housing asylum seekers in Glasgow and refugee charities and campaigners, over the accuracy of information Mears Group has provided ...

The stabbings in Park Inn hotel in Glasgow on Friday are an awful outcome of a system which breaks many of the people caught in its vice. Of course not ...