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IN MANY WAYS, animals have been hard to miss since the outbreak of Covid-19. As millions across the world have retreated into quarantine, the noise and bustle that marks humanity’s...

As Nicola Sturgeon plans to press Boris Johnson on the introduction of a universal basic income in response to the economic consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic, Jack Perry argues that...

Analysis of new ONS data by John Hopkins University in the US suggests that the UK’s five-day average for Covid-19 deaths is higher than any other European country for this...

THERE was a morbid inevitability in the way the crisis of the North East industry has been used since oil prices collapsed. In Scotland, if it can be weaponised in...

Here is something curious. At the end of a detailed report on The Daily Business about the Herald & Times leaving their Glasgow office due to financial concerns, it ended with this...

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...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is on a search for a “new normal”. She wrote over the weekend that when “the kaleidoscope of our lives is shaken there...

Nicola Sturgeon announced on Thursday that they are starting planning for an end to lockdown, but think tanks and the third sector are way ahead of them. Two weeks ago...

ACCORDING to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, young people graduating this year will be the hardest hit in the blasted economic landscape left in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic....

German Green MEP Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. IN ORDER to...