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New Scottish Government strategy to increase access to devolved benefits prompts call to raise take-up and tackle stigma Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone calls for action to ensure people are...

Flagship Tory policy savaged by critics for lagging behind public consensus. SNP urge wage equality across different age groups. Fresh scrutiny applied to Conservative claims of post-austerity policies ahead of...

Joint operation between the Scottish SPCA, Moray Council and Police Scotland raids property housing dozens of dogs -          Following the pregnancy of two of the 60 dogs rescued from a...

Scottish independence campaigners pledge solidarity with imprisoned Catalan leaders Two years on from disputed Catalan independence referendum, imprisoned pro-independence leaders call for civil disobedience Guilty verdicts on imprisoned Catalan activists...

To celebrate Black History Month, CommonSpace, in collaboration with MORE (Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment), will be speaking to people whose work is contributing to black empowerment, about what...

Scotland can reopen its bank branches A new report from the Common Weal think tank by Dr Gemma Bone Dodds - author of Common Weal's 2016 policy paper Banking for...

Sean Bell will become interim editor of the site BEN WRAY is stepping down as CommonSpace editor, with parliamentary reporter Sean Bell taking over as interim editor, before a permanent...

The hard right like to disable opponents with outrageous rhetoric while they re-order the political landscape BORIS JOHNSON has stoked horror on the benches of the re-convened Commons by insulting the...

Other speakers will include Aamer Anwar, George Kerevan, Lesley Riddoch and Ross Greer Radical currents of the independence movement return to Glasgow to discuss strategy and challenges ahead at 26...

Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine argues that elites have manipulated language in such a way as to obliterate critique of their own political power and control IT MUST be wonderful to...