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The “sex, gender and covid-19 project” launches this morning, which describes itself as “the world’s most comprehensive dashboard for covid-19 data broken down by sex and gender”. The dashboard allows you to...

LOOK, I don’t want to waste your time. Attempts to explain and account for the decline/uncertain future/inevitable death of Scottish Labour have been grist for the mill of Scottish political...

How do we stop the resurgence of covid-19 in Scotland? Everyone is agreed that it is resurgent, and that we need to stop it, so let’s try to focus on...

THE BREXIT ROW of Monday (9 September) had a Proustian recall quality to it. The French literary master famously transported a character, via the taste of a madeleine, to lost...

Two stories today illuminate the absurdity of modern-day capitalism, where inequality is so profound that the economy appears broken in two, orbiting in completely different realities from one another. On...

Extinction Rebellion blockaded a newsprinters near Motherwell, Glasgow, in an attempt to prevent The Scottish Sun newspapers being delivered. Protests follow a number of tragic events to befall asylum seekers...

Amidst growing concerns that rising property prices in Scotland’s Highland and Island communities are making it almost impossible for local residents to purchase homes, a range of community figures have...

Brexit’s back. Of course, it never went away. But for three years it dominated UK political debate, before the decisive December 2019 General Election finally set Britain on a definitive...

THE UK Government’s attempt to inspire a mass-return of workers to offices has not been a resounding success. Indeed, the abortive campaign began to fall apart almost as soon as...

IN AUGUST, in one of the first great institutional meltdowns of the pandemic era (there will, presumably, be more) education systems across the UK were engulfed in controversy. Official moderation...