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I HAVE NEVER BEEN convinced that this inquiry would end with Nicola Sturgeon resigning in disgrace. On Tuesday night, I wobbled a bit, as a raft of new revelations cast...

Common Weal’s Head of Policy & Research, Dr Craig Dalzell, examines the UK Budget and warns of hard times to come for everyone the Tories will leave behind. IN MY...

THE statistics do not lie here. The UK, with a population 67 of million has, according to the BBC’s Our World in Data service, administered 31.6 million doses of Covid-19...

The Food Foundation has released a report of the impact a year of crisis has had on food security. 4.7 million adults have been affected by food insecurity over the...

JOE BIDEN’S FIRST foreign policy decision, surprisingly, was a good one. Breaking the habit of a lifetime, Biden chose to end support for Saudi Arabia’s genocidal intervention in Yemen, a...

With Rishi Sunak set to announce the 2021 budget tomorrow, people that have been excluded from financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic will be waiting to hear whether they can...

SCOTLAND IS BASICALLY DIVIDED into two camps right now: people who care about the inquiry, and people who don’t. In the former camp you will find politics nerds, who, despite...

AT THE RISK OF understatement, it was a busy weekend for Scottish politics. There was Salmond’s inquiry appearance; a no confidence motion in the deputy first minister; and finally, a...

PHILIP HAMMOND, who many will remember as Theresa May’s sallow Eeyore of a Chancellor, was briefly relieved of the Conservative Party whip during the collective mental breakdown over Brexit. These...

The light was bouncing off Liam Fox’s big, shiny bronze neck as he laid into Scottish democracy. “Yesterday the former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, accused the Scottish Government...