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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce a “national mission” to “create new, green jobs across Scotland with fair pay and good conditions” when she sets out her Programme for Government today. The...

Living Rent members are petitioning to strip cleaning giant ISS of its contract with Edinburgh City Council after low-rise flats are not cleaned for the duration of the lockdown. Tenants...

With the Programme for Government due tomorrow in Scotland, it’s a good time to take a look at the state of politics.  A poll over the weekend showed Labour are...

Imagine you are elderly, and you and your family are discussing whether to move into a care home. Maybe a Source Direct subscriber out there is in this situation. Naturally,...

Glasgow Disability Alliance claim inequalities have been ‘supercharged’ by Covid19, and are calling on the Scottish Government to listen to the voices of disabled people. “There have always been inequalities...

WHILE I can’t abide the cruelty involved, there is a moment hunters describe when their prey realises there is no escape, no more hope. Its fear, panic and anger dissolves...

IN 1968, Joseph Bachmann shot and gravely injured radical student leader Rudi Dutschke in Berlin. For decades afterward, Bachmann was described as an ‘anti-Communist’, the useful Cold War moniker he...

Amid the GERS hullabaloo yesterday (a good analysis of that is on Sourcehere), there was some other interesting things going on that deserve a bit more attention. First, the STUC, Scotland’s...

IN MANY WAYS, this year’s GERS report marks the end of an era. It’s not that the report itself is going to change drastically, or that we’ll finally reach the...

Merry GERS-mas! No, Lionel Messi is not signing for Rangers. GERS day is the geek term for the ultimate geeky day in Scottish politics, where a statistical publication is wielded...