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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how many people have fallen through the gaps of the current UK social security system. The Scottish Government commissioned a report on the feasibility of...

ON 13 MARCH, the Care Inspectorate, the regulator responsible for the quality of care in care homes, suspended inspections of services and stopped all visits except “when absolutely necessary”. Few...

The thing about the Tories is that, in the end, their essential Tory-ness always shines through. They are and always will be the nasty party because they are made up...

LIFE FROM TOWN TO TOWN in the UK is a very different affair. In metropolitan areas banking, services, tech and education hyper-inflate urban centres. In many provincial towns, robbed of...

IN ENGINEERING, you may often be faced with a black box theory, an abstract representation of a system or a device which can only be viewed in terms of its...

What to do about schools is becoming a big problem for the Scottish Government, with no clear solution yet in sight and significant confusion about what the Scottish Government is...

In politics, the case rarely changes, only the basis for its justification.  The economics of the union, for example, is made and re-made based on whatever policy the UK state...

Beyond the Noise is a regular Source podcast with David Jamieson, looking in detail at stories in the headlines. For this edition Jamieson is joined by Michael Billeaux, a sociology...

Thousands have joined protests across Scotland in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. But there are some that think race issues are being imported from the US, and that...

Global stock markets have tumbled as evidence emerged that several US states which have re-opened are seeing rising cases of Covid-19. Stock markets don’t actually tell you much about what’s...