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IF YOU LOSE your job during the pandemic, that’s not your fault, right? Sadly, and absurdly, that isn’t the majority view in Britain today. A full 47 percent of people believe that...

New statistics show that an estimated 216 homeless people died in 2019. Urgent action must be taken to end homelessness, address its causes and strengthen protections for tenants faced with...

LIVING RENT, the Scottish tenants union, today called upon the Scottish Government to introduce limits on private rents as part of the national recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic. Presenting evidence...

“HE’S BEHIND YOU!” “Oh no he isn’t!” It’s long past panto season, but Scottish politics didn’t get that memo. With each day the inquiry into the Government mishandling of the...

EVEN within a cabinet largely comprised of rejected PG Wodehouse characters, it is difficult to engage seriously with Gavin Williamson, the man who shared both an office and a personality...

A CRUSADING – and crowd-funded – public accountability group, the Good Law Project, proved in the English high court last week (19 February) that the UK Government had breached rules...

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, a report by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance appeared to pour cold water on the prospects for Scottish autonomy. The headline figure suggested the mixture of...

A new report from the University of Edinburgh has reviewed what lessons can be learnt from society’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and applied to the fight against climate change....

THE SNP’s COMBINATION of electoral success and internal chaos has been well documented. But one result of the Salmond-Sturgeon psychodrama is that we risk ignoring a yawning crisis of unionism....

IN FAIRNESS TO the Holyrood inquiry into the mishandling of complaints against Alex Salmond, it has never been predictable. From court battles over evidence to rogue magpies, every week brings...