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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 last six years Common Weal has been showing...

A BLITZ of good news stories about the UK Government’s job furlough scheme emerged from Number 11 Downing Street on its final day for new applicants – among them, that...

The bosses’ offensive is reaching full throttle. The key piece of government advice it has in its sights is the two metre rule for physical distancing. Tory backbenchers are pushing the...

ON 5 FEBRUARY 2020, just before the Coronavirus crisis enveloped Scotland, the Independent Care Review (ICR) published a revolutionary suite of reports into Scotland’s care system for children. The reports...

113 is the magic number. That’s how many times Covid-19 was “introduced” to Scotland aboard flights in late February and the whole of March, according to a new University of...

THE MASSIVE PROTEST MOVEMENT inspired by the police killing of George Floyd has, in just a fortnight, scored a series of significant victories. For many on the Left either side...

IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST in how energy use and household behaviours have changed under lockdown, then this recent article from the Oxford University spin-out Joju Solar makes for fascinating...

SHOULD Scotland be enthused by the trailing of some of what may be in the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery’s plans? This isn’t one of my (shortly concluding) virus columns...

New polls on the Scottish elections in 2021 and on support for independence have raised the question of a referendum again. The polls show the SNP on course to win...

AS PROTESTS sparked by the murder of George Floyd continue across the United States and throughout the world, Source spoke to a range of activists, commentators and campaigners in the...