It’s very possible that Scotland has reached the tipping point, when it shifts from being a country which is ambivalent ...

Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s ...

WHILE I can’t abide the cruelty involved, there is a moment hunters describe when their prey realises there is no ...

THE BREXIT ROW of Monday (9 September) had a Proustian recall quality to it. The French literary master famously transported ...

IN 1968, Joseph Bachmann shot and gravely injured radical student leader Rudi Dutschke in Berlin. For decades afterward, Bachmann was ...

TODAY, we at Common Weal got some very sad news. One of our most inspiring activists has died and the ...

After Scotland regains its independence, British nationalist zoom blogger Effie Deans must be preserved for the nation as a national ...

On Tuesday, something remarkable happened. Brandon Lewis, a British Government minister, stood up in the House of Commons and announced ...

By all accounts, one of the tactics that helped the Liberal Democrats to narrowly regain North-East Fife last year was ...

FOR 12 YEARS of my life I was the spokesperson for Scotland’s universities and their chief political strategist. The current ...