Kenny McBride is a Wings reader. This is his personal experience and view. A couple of weeks ago Ian Small, BBC Scotland’s Head of Public Policy, wrote an article for the...
Last night we stumbled across an interesting little statistical wrinkle to our story from Wednesday about voters’ satisfaction with Scottish public services. The middle set of figures there is especially revealing....
Charities and opposition parties have raised concerns about the hundreds of thousands in fees Scotland’s local authorities have charged to homeless people for storing their belongings. Freedom of information requests...
Chris McEleny is an SNP councillor. This is a personal opinion.The open sewer of some newspapers has been in full torrent this week. However it surged over the overflow pipe with...
Tonight we have the result of the first local government by-election in Scotland for several months...Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay by-election result (first preferences):Conservatives 37.3% (+0.7) SNP 28.1% (-2.7) Labour 12.0%...
There’s a very weird story in the Scotsman today. As alert readers will have noticed from the third paragraph, the headline is actually an inexplicably negative spin on the fact...
Phantom Power's acclaimed Journey to Yes series is back - and the latest film is perhaps the most remarkable so far. It features Ashley Graczyk, who was elected as a...
This year’s Scottish Household Survey is out, and the press is in an absolutely gleeful orgy of misery over it. Here’s the Times, for example: The paper’s leading line is...
Liam Fox’s Brexit trade department has spent tens of millions on companies that have warned of “chaos” and economic disruption after the UK leaves the European Union (EU). Fox, a...
One of Scotland’s largest unions is calling for a radical overhaul of council pension funds over links to Donald Trump’s migrant detention camps. UNISON has proposed a merger of pension...