Month: November 2020

Graphic includes a reproduction of Battle of Little Bighorn By Russell Bruce Biden wins and republicans go for a replay of Custer’s last stand. Republicans may be downhearted but the ...

that his party, which hasn’t won an election in Scotland since the1950s, wasn’t going to ‘allow’ Scotland to have another independence referendum for possibly another 40 years. By which time ...

Incredibly, the current odds on the Betfair exchange imply Trump has an approximately 5% chance of winning an election he's already lost. Punters have consistently overestimated his chances for months, ...

With the US Presidential election all over except for the lawsuits, the hot-takes and the tantrums, let’s look ahead to Scotland’s big election in six months time. What can we ...

Scotland’s criminal records checking agency is continuing to spend millions of pounds to manually deal with disclosure applications more than a year after an IT system £44 million over budget ...

Is funding announced by the Scottish government last week enough to provide support to the increase in volume of young people experiencing mental health issues? Childline has heard from almost ...

IN ‘A PREDICTABLE CRISIS’, published by Common Weal on 20 May, my first recommendation was that the Scottish Government should develop a national plan to protect older people in care ...

We all know why the claims that the 2014 indyref was a "once in a generation" vote are bogus. The words were not contained or implied in the Edinburgh Agreement, ...

All hail our innovative Big Pharma overlords, riding to the rescue to save the world from the scourge of covid-19 with their vaccine developed at record-breaking speed!  Well, not quite. ...

Human rights groups have written to Police Scotland requesting action to be taken against a convicted criminal connected to neo-Nazis and loyalist paramilitaries who threatened to rape a baby.Letters sent ...