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Scotland’s Mental Welfare Commission is to investigate the use of physical restraint in NHS facilities after data gathered by The Ferret revealed a rise in recorded incidents by health boards....

Immediate changes should be made to put in place better out-of-hours mental health provision in prisons, it has been claimed by campaigners. They include Linda Allan,  whose daughter Katie took...

BBC Question Time Derby By Russell Bruce Two things last week sent me thinking about the paralysis affecting the English political system, passed down from a paralysis embedded in society...

A US arms firm based in Fife has held 84 meetings with the UK government since the Tories came to power. Raytheon has wined and dined powerful MPs and treated...

Peers living in Scotland have claimed more than £2.1 million from taxpayers over 12 months, up 16 per cent on two years ago – and many of the most expensive...

An extreme far right group modelled on Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists plans to put candidates up for community council seats in Scotland. The New British Union (NBU)...

Disappointingly, Mhairi Hunter reacted to the polite criticism in the previous post by blocking me on Twitter.  It's never pleasant being blocked by someone 'on your own side', especially an...

Yes, still. Yes, again. But don’t worry, we still have a cartoon joke for you. Ladies and gentlemen, the Scottish Labour Party. Category comment, idiots, scottish politics Trackback: trackback from...

I know I'm not the only person who was disappointed and deeply concerned to see the Glasgow SNP councillor Mhairi Hunter, and one or two others close to the party...

You wouldn’t know it to watch the black-hole-scale mess our politicians are making of it, but the thing about Brexit is that it ISN’T an insoluble problem. That two of...