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One thing I’ve learnt from this crisis is that you have to be careful to avoid being seduced by what appears to be a consensus of the need for systemic...

IF THE 19-year war in Afghanistan is the forgotten war, and the implosion of Libya is the marginal war – of interest only to the extent that it informs European...

Common Weal head of policy and research Dr Craig Dalzell warns that hopes for a Scottish National Infrastructure Company are threatened by a Scottish Government power grab IN 2018, the...

The case of Alexander Dennis, the bus builder based in Falkirk now expected to axe 650 jobs, highlights the need for government to think big about how it tackles this...

We live in strange times where little is surprising, but George Galloway seeking to form a national coalition government with the Tories and Labour in the Scottish Parliament is still...

Imagine Jeff Bezos cloned 7.5 times. That would be the equivalent of the financial wealth of everyone in Scotland (including everything; pensions, properties, etc). Maybe even less, as the Scottish...

IN RECENT YEARS, the four-day week has been much discussed but forever delayed. Last week, new research from Survation found that a four-day working week enjoys the support of 63...

IT IS FITTING Boris Johnson should mark the year anniversary (minus one day) of his premiership with a hasty visit north of the border to combat the growing support for...

ONE of the skillsets which comes with power (and often gets you the power in the first place) is the ability to say dubious things with such self-certainty that others...

Scottish contact tracers at the ready – England’s King of Covid is crossing the border!  Boris Johnson is still Prime Minister for the whole of the United Kingdom, but on...