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The new “test, trace, isolate, support” strategy announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday was an important milestone in Scotland’s Covid-19 crisis. The paper sets out a distinctive Scottish approach...

AFTER weeks of campaigning by Common Weal and others, the Scottish Government has finally begun to look at how Scotland emerges from the protective hibernation of lockdown and has published...

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...

There is a gap between what the Scottish Government claims it wants to do in its economic response to this crisis and its actions.  Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said on...

“THE WEEKEND before the lockdown was chaos. The shop was stripped bare. And I mean all the fresh produce was gone by like 8am.”Steve (not his real name) is a...

Dr Craig Dalzell continues his analysis of the OBR’s sectoral impact of the pandemic by looking at how transport has been affected by the lockdown. I’M GOING TO START this...

The UK is going Korean. Having led with a herd immunity approach to this crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now said to be convinced that South Korea’s “test, trace,...

The Scottish Human Rights Commission have published a report on the Scottish Budget, highlighting the impact of inequality during the Covid-19 crisis and the need to increase transparency when it...

In Wednesday’s Source Direct, Ben Wray reported on both the UK and Scottish Government’s difficulties in delivering comprehensive numbers for Coronavirus deaths, especially in care homes. And he warned that...

When the inevitable inquiry takes place into what’s happened in care homes in Scotland during this crisis, there will undoubtedly be myriad reasons identified for why the necessary protections were...