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Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the past few months, Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine...

“CLOSED” was how PM Boris Johnson described what I’ll call the Jenrick Affair. We now know the UK Housing Minister Robert Jenrick shared friendly texts and a meal with media...

It’s a sign of the strange and frankly deeply disturbing Twitterisation of political debate in the UK that Robert Jenrick is not sacked as a Minister for a classic case of corruption,...

JOHN SWINNEY’S announcement earlier this week that Scottish schools will reopen full-time in August with no physical distancing if the Coronavirus is sufficiently suppressed has not ended controversy over the...

An IPPR report has found that 1/3 of young people could be jobless by Christmas. “Following the great recession of 2008, the Government brought forward a Future Jobs Fund targeted...

Highland Council is teetering on the brink. It has been the hardest hit in the UK financially from the Covid-19 crisis in terms of cash lost per head of population,...

“STURGEON’S hopes destroyed: Scotland’s economic collapse will end independence bid”. The headline from the Daily Express of 11 June shows how some still believe (or pretend), despite all the mounting...

Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the past few months, Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine...

ON 16 MARCH, a few days after abandoning ‘contact, trace and isolate’, the UK and Scottish governments introduced three new measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and protect people....

Let’s start with the good news. One in every 200 tests are now coming back positive for Covid-19 in Scotland. From 32,021 tests in Scotland last week, 155 were positive,...