Month: September 2020

WeeGingerDug · Dugcast 24 09 2020 With Lesley Riddoch   On this week’s dugcast I am delighted to be joined by the writer and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch. We chat about ...

I’M PRETTY SURE the Covid crisis in Scotland has opened a window for tearing apart of chunks of the NHS as we know it, and I’m pretty sure the window ...

Protests against lockdown restrictions enacted to combat coronavirus in the UK have been taking place in Scotland and around the UK.A demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament on 5 September was ...

The UK Government has been accused of having “immoral” trade deals with Saudi Arabia after a new report accused the oil-rich state of systematic violations of international law in Yemen ...

Most lobbying of Scottish ministers has been carried out by big businesses and farmers, according to an analysis of Holyrood’s lobbying register by The Ferret.Ten of the top 14 lobbyists ...

IN AUGUST, in one of the first great institutional meltdowns of the pandemic era (there will, presumably, be more) education systems across the UK were engulfed in controversy. Official moderation ...

1.8kSHARESHundreds of tenants in Scotland have been handed eviction notices since the beginning of lockdown, despite government advice for landlords to be flexible with renters during the pandemic.Campaigners and politicians ...

Most lobbying of Scottish ministers has been carried out by big businesses and farmers, according to an analysis of Holyrood’s lobbying register by The Ferret.Ten of the top 14 lobbyists ...

A salmon farming company has been reprimanded for feeding a toxic pesticide to fish twice as often as permitted and breaching a safety limit, according to documents released by the ...

Sounds like the same stunt Renewi are pulling in Argyll & Bute. Recycling not been moved and stockpiled on sites. Massaged figures with landfill waste and sites been run well ...