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As Scotland enters its new tiered system of restrictions today, England is getting prepared to dump it. Boris Johnson’s Saturday announcement of a four-week national lockdown, only for England, came...

You don’t have to be Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest fan to take serious issue with his suspension from the Labour party yesterday, you just have to have some commitment to basic...

WE LIVE in the age of the political witch-hunt. A destructive, wild-eyed paranoia is widespread, not just on the social media fringes, but in professional political life. Witness the campaign...

In an attempt to tackle Scotland’s throwaway society, the Scottish Government has launched a public consultation on introducing restrictions on single use plastics. “The impact of plastic pollution is everywhere...

In the current mess which is public policy debate in Scotland, it feels like nothing sticks. Big issues arrive, get covered and then disappear the next day, treated like curiosities....

The conclusions of a much-awaited report into discharges of patients from hospitals to care homes should be treated with care. It shows that the risk of a care home outbreak is more...

HAVE YOU EVER tried to go to sleep when you are hungry, when your stomach aches and keeps you awake, then by morning you feel weak and tired with concentration...

A new IPPR Scotland report published today, ‘Weathering the Winter Storm‘, paints a bleak picture of the financial hit people have taken from the pandemic crisis. Almost half of all...

It would be foolishness to assume a Joe Biden victory in the 3 November US Presidential election. Both the 2016 upset, and the eccentricities of the US electoral college system...

Marian Pallister, chair of Pax Christi Scotland, says the 50th ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an important milestone for the global anti-nukes movement, but...