Month: August 2020

The trolling and spam on this blog has got completely out of hand in recent times, particularly over the last month, so to attempt to apply a brake I've temporarily ...

It’s been a busy week in British nationalist panic. You’d almost think that they were terrified that their precioussss is slipping away from them and there’s nothing they can do ...

Generation Scotland and SHINE (Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement  Research Network) have released the results of their Teen Covid Life survey, which got young people to reflect on the impact ...

Common Weal communications officer Becki Menzies looks at the SQA grading debacle through her own experience of going to a school in a deprived area. She argues that this should ...

As schools begin to fully re-open in Scotland, this may begin to feel like the start of a return to normal for many, but the global situation suggests complacency would ...

Twenty children have been killed in Yemen since the UK government resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia just over one month ago. We reported in July that Liz Truss MP, ...

If you are somewhere in the big broad world outwith the UK, can you see this? It’s probably best to check since the part time prime minister and full time ...

After holding out through a week of anger following the SQA’s mass downgrading of 125,000 pupils’ marks, Education Secretary John Swinney finally issued an apology and a full retreat: the ...

Education Secretary John Swinney’s U-turn was about as complete as could be, to the extent that it was more an O than a U. All those SQA moderators may as ...

Kinship carers – grandparents and other relatives who look after children when their birth parents cannot – claim they have been left “reeling in shock” after the contract for a ...