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The announcement of NHS Highland buying out HC-One’s Home Farm care home in Skye has taken away the focus in much of the media from the Care Inspectorate’s official inspection...

THERE’S a question that has been at the back of my mind for a while now, but it’s being dragged into the foreground. Have Scotland’s powerful political, economic and administrative...

Funding cuts by Glasgow City Council could lead to five Citizens Advice Bureaux being forced to close, and many more advice services cut, just as the city is facing an...

Here we go again. One by one, Scottish Labour MSPs are calling for their leader, Richard Leonard, to resign. The figure is currently at four, but according to the BBC’s...

AS A PROGRESSIVE think-and-do tank, we at Common Weal often quip to politicians that it’s virtually our contractual duty to tell the Scottish Government that they’re “not doing enough” (as...

Common Weal director Robin McAlpine looks at the broad sweep of the Programme for Government on Source here. There will also be a further, more detailed policy analysis published on the...

ON MONDAY 24 AUGUST, a lone soldier stood in full uniform outside Downing Street in London’s Whitehall government district, and blew a whistle every ten minutes. A placard next to...

COMMON WEAL Head of Policy Craig Dalzell will do a fuller analysis of today’s Programme for Government for tomorrow morning. For now, this is an initial reaction. Let’s begin with...

ONE of the downright outstanding achievements of the post-2014 independence movement is that despite the fact the No vote was down to non-Scots-born voters entitled to vote in Scotland, you...

TODAY, we at Common Weal got some very sad news. One of our most inspiring activists has died and the news is a blow to all of us. You may...