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Sarah Glynn reports from Strasbourg, where she spent time with the Kurdish hunger strikers on strike to demand an end to the Turkish regime’s isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan WRITING on...

Graham Lebeter, a semi retired businessman working on a University of Edinburgh research project on the rejuvenation of high streets, says the future is not going to be easy, but there...

The prime minister’s credibility is shot, but did Corbyn blinking first give her the wriggle room to back down? THERESA MAY has done what she said she would never do. She...

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 news cycle and gets to heart of issues, trying...

Retired civil servant Margaret Cuthbert writes a special tribute to Harry McNish, a carpenter on the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition who had to resist his incompetent boss and maintain a broken ship...

In the Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller highlights the rebranding of Scotland’s national dish as the “Great British Haggis” by a Fife manufacturer last year, and Theresa May’s description...

Deal includes commitment to cross-party talks on replacing the Council Tax in the next parliament The deal includes increased core funding for councils, extra powers on levies, and a commitment...

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray looks at whether the Scottish Greens have won enough in their Budget agreement with the Scottish Government THE Scottish Government is set to pass its 2019/20 Budget...

Common Weal head of policy & research Dr Craig Dalzell looks in depth at Export Statistics Scotland’s latest publication, and finds it reveals truths about Scotland’s economy which do not...

The Home Office is attempting to deport an elderly couple to Iran, despite having built a life in the UK for over 40 years and acting as co-parents to a...