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“We’re taking one step forward, five steps back,” Devi Sridhar, professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and on the Scottish Government’s covid-19 advisory group, wrote yesterday, in...

WITH the planet already having warmed one degree and little time left to turn the reassuring words of world best targets into the hard actions required to actually reduce C02e...

Scottish Labour have proposed a ‘right to food’ bill, that was out to community consultation until last week. With Scotland facing increasing levels of food poverty, could this be what...

AMIDST the ongoing crisis in Scotland’s care homes, from the failure to prepare for a second wave of Covid-19 to the widespread denial of residents’ human rights, last week nine...

Another year, another banking scandal. They’re like clock-work these days. This time, it’s the FinCEN files: a leak of 2,657 documents from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau...

IF the BBC has any great skill, it is for pleasing no one. This enduring talent was confirmed once again by the week’s worth of febrile controversy that followed its...

THE COVID PANDEMIC has placed a spotlight on the need for better, faster ways to share data for many purposes such as monitoring the rate and spread of the disease,...

September 18th. The sixth anniversary of Indyref. I’m sure I am not alone among Source Direct subscribers in wondering if we will ever see as politically vibrant times again as...

KEIR STARMER made a terrible mistake by letting slip what establishment people think about social movements when he called Black Lives Matter ‘a moment’. It explains why we need to...

Free Our City is a campaign being launched by Get Glasgow Moving calling for public transport to be made free to use. “This radical policy is a necessary one: to...