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IN MARCH 2016, SNP members voted overwhelmingly at their party conference to support national rent controls.The timing was meaningful. Campaigners and party members wanted to commit the party – all...

On Monday the Scottish Government proposed that the UK needs £80 billion of investment for a Coronavirus recovery plan – equating to 4% of the UK’s GDP. Instead, Boris Johnson...

When Prime Minister Boris Johnson is accusing anyone else of “astonishing and shameful” responses to Covid-19, and when Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is describing others as “reckless” in how they...

TO HEAR SOME TELL IT, Keir Starmer is having a good plague year. According to a poll conducted by Opinium for the Observer, the UK Labour leader has narrowly overtaken...

A FEW MONTHS before its defeat in the 2010 General Election, the last UK Labour Government published a white paper called ‘Building a National Care Service’. Eleven years after it...

It’s easy for the left to pick fun at Boris Johnson’s attempt to harness former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday. The Prime Minister sought to channel FDR in a...

NEWS CYCLES have learned to accommodate the now routine assaults on Palestinian populations. In the twenty years since the Second Intifada in 2000, major assaults in the Gaza strip have...

On Friday the 26th of June, an asylum seeker staying at Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow stabbed 6 people and was then shot by police. Charities and MPs have been...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has brushed off “dangerous” calls to re-open New Zealand’s borders to visitors. She said yesterday that this is “a world where the virus is escalating not slowing,...

The stabbings in Park Inn hotel in Glasgow on Friday are an awful outcome of a system which breaks many of the people caught in its vice. Of course not...