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Common Weal Head of Policy & Research Dr Craig Dalzell comments on the latest change of tack in Scotland’s Covid strategy and the retreat once again to converging behind the...

Scottish Canals today opened Garscube bridge to the public, connecting the communities of Panmure Gate and Woodside in North Glasgow, and providing access to the Claypits Project, a nature reserve...

The fight-back has started. David Bell, Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, has said the idea of a National Care Service is a “distraction”. He said we should...

IN THE WEEKS after the Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown first gripped Europe and the UK, much was made of frontline workers. Those who kept the economy turning over were lavished...

THAT ANNOUNCEMENT in the notices people received through their front doors in June that St Fittick’s Park and Doonies had been included in the Council’s Proposed Local Development Plan 2020...

It’s difficult to not have at least one eye on US politics at the moment. As the Presidential election nears and Trump apparently makes a miraculous recovery from covid-19, the...

ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, six people set off from Dundee to walk the sixty0odd miles to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, where they will finish their journey with speeches at 2pm...

D=S-M. It is a simple formula that has the potential to save us from despair at the prospect of a Covid-restricted life stretching out in front of us indefinitely. And...

Craig Dalzell has written a detailed response on Source here to the new restrictions imposed by the Scottish Government yesterday. Dalzell looks at the evidence report that the new measures are based on, which is really...

The Vacant and Derelict Land Taskforce has put forward recommendations to the Scottish Government to tackle derelict land, and reuse land to become part of the solution for climate change,...