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This morning’s (20 August) front page of The National newspaper has met the remit of the publication; it accurately represents the beguiling contradictions of the Scottish National Party and wider...

THERE is increasing awareness, backed by research, of the long-term health impacts of Covid-19 on people who have had the illness and new organisations committed to publicising this. Covid-19 does...

NHS workers across the country have been out protesting their exclusion from a recently announced pay rise for public sector workers. Those left out of the deal include nurses, junior...

While the media’s attention was focused on the answers of Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans in the first day of the Holyrood-Salmond inquiry yesterday, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman came up with...

THROUGHOUT the Covid-19 pandemic, notice has been made time and again that the crisis was stretching the bonds of the post-devolution British state.Devolved policy areas eventually meant divergence in responses...

Tomorrow, it will be exactly 67 years since the coup in Iran which overthrew Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh. It has long been known that the UK’s MI6 and the...

SINCE the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent economic crisis, the press-releases of many trade unions have become a torrent of sorry tidings. Emails journalists receive from their...

Last week’s election in Belarus has led to around 70,000 people protesting, as Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years, claimed to have won 80% of the...

A PAPER OF MINE published in the latest edition of Scottish Affairs (‘Ambiguous no more: Time to de-mystify the Barnett Formula’, Scottish Affairs vol.29, issue 3) deals with the history...

The latest Common Weal paper by leading care expert Nick Kempe, ‘Lessons Learned?’, examines data from the Care Inspectorate, the body responsible for monitoring social care standards in Scotland, about the...