Highland Council is crying out for a tax on land – Source by qwertyfan June 25, 2020 0 Highland Council is teetering on the brink. It has been the hardest hit in the UK financially from the Covid-19... Read moreDetails
Private firm housing asylum seekers accused of misleading politicians | The Ferreta by qwertyfan June 25, 2020 0 A row has broken out between the private company responsible for housing asylum seekers in Glasgow and refugee charities and... Read moreDetails
Analysis: The runaway national question – Source by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 “STURGEON’S hopes destroyed: Scotland’s economic collapse will end independence bid”. The headline from the Daily Express of 11 June shows... Read moreDetails
Robin McAlpine: As lockdown sputters out, what actually happened and what can we learn? – Source by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy.... Read moreDetails
Nick Kempe: There is no sign the Scottish Government has learnt from the care sector’s lack of preparation for a pandemic – Source by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 ON 16 MARCH, a few days after abandoning ‘contact, trace and isolate’, the UK and Scottish governments introduced three new... Read moreDetails
Glasgow equal pay lawyers plan legal action over pensions by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 Lawyers representing thousands of women who secured the largest equal pay settlement in Scottish history are planning legal action against... Read moreDetails
The three B’s party by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 The Scottish branch office of the Three B’s party, British, Brexit and Boris, is exulting today that it forced a... Read moreDetails
Back to school? by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 Wikipedia lists the ideology of the Scottish Tories as "conservatism", "British unionism" and "economic liberalism". To which we must now... Read moreDetails
Swinney’s gamble – Source by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 Let’s start with the good news. One in every 200 tests are now coming back positive for Covid-19 in Scotland.... Read moreDetails
Revealed: the 16,000 hidden victims of Edinburgh Airport noise by qwertyfan June 24, 2020 0 As many as 16,000 more people than officially admitted have been exposed to noise pollution from Edinburgh Airport, according to... Read moreDetails