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THE recently published Feeley Report into adult social care in Scotland has received a mixed response – whilst everyone welcomes its improvements for social care staff and people that need...

FIRSTLY, AN ANNOUNCEMENT. It’s my birthday tomorrow and I will be taking a little time off to celebrate turning the grand old age of 36. The upshot being that Source...

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT has stripped three Catalan MEPs of their immunity. All three face sedition charges for their part in organising the 2017 Catalan referendum on independence. One of these...

I WAS SITTING on a single bed in a cheap hotel in New York, staring at a mobile phone, watching Emily Maitlis curl her lip in revulsion as Prince Andrew...

NATIONAL ENVY can be an ugly thing. When one looks to another country and wonders why we cannot have what they have, the answers are rarely satisfying, nor is the...

This International Women’s Day, we took a look at the activists that are prominent in the fight against human rights violations in Belarus. “In their struggle, they are challenging patriarchal attitudes and...

POLLS CAN DECEIVE. Polls for an election four years away, doubly so. Nonetheless, with all caveats, the Times/YouGov poll over the weekend deserves attention, if not for its headline grabber, a...

ON 20 FEBRUARY, a few hours after the UK Government announced that residents in care homes could receive one visitor a week, the Scottish Government announced they would allow two...

“NO CONSIDERATION…will move me to set aside truth in favour of supposed national interests,” said Sigmund Freud. It came to mind this morning, when I awoke to Ian Blackford announcing...

IN ONE OF the first acts of the 2021 Holyrood election, Angus Robertson promised Edinburgh Central voters that this election will be about securing an independence referendum. However, this wasn’t...