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Who would be a Catalan President? Or at least, a pro-independence Catalan President? Look through the list of those who have served as president of Catalonia before and after the...

BRITISH SECURITY FORCES will gain explicit legal cover to commit crimes at home and abroad under new laws proposed by the UK’s right-wing Tory government with little – if any...

Within about 24 hours of a ‘Glasgow Uni Rent Strike’ social media campaign starting, university principal Anton Muscatelli stepped in with a one-month re-fund “to compensate for the disruption they...

“In this report we explain that Wales has failed to make economic progress not because the country is too small or too poor, but because it is trapped within an...

The title of what Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday, ‘Job Support Scheme’, flatters to deceive. The key thing to be aware of is that employers are being asked to pay...

I’M PRETTY SURE the Covid crisis in Scotland has opened a window for tearing apart of chunks of the NHS as we know it, and I’m pretty sure the window...

Are you a ‘Kurzarbeit’ or a ‘chômage partiel’ person? UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak will make an important statement to the House of Commons this afternoon about what will replace the furlough...

Shelter Scotland have released a report calling for an increase in the amount of social housing promised by the Scottish Government – to the equivalent of an additional house built...

Exactly six months today since full lockdown, Scotland is back in a mini-lockdown again. This time, only other people’s homes are off-limits. As in England, pubs will shut at 10pm....

WHAT DOES TODAY’S Covid announcement for Scotland really mean? In the broadest brushstrokes, we have returned to a de facto ‘Four Nations’ strategy, which means that the Covid trajectories of...