Party general secretary resignation and change in communications post represent end of “Better Together approach”

The CommonSpace Show returns –  featuring CommonSpace journalists David Jamieson and Rhiannon Davies discussing the week’s big stories.

For this edition, we are joined by freelance journalist Karin Goodwin who regularly contributes to both the Sunday National and The Ferret. Earlier this year she was awarded the Nicola Barry award at the Scottish Press Awards for her campaigning journalism. She focuses mainly on social issues, and has covered homelessness and the Serco evictions in depth. 

Housing minister Kevin Stewart responds following new findings that show a lack of suitable housing causes “considerable physical and mental harm” to disabled people in Scotland

The annual conference of the independent Scottish media cooperative will include speakers such as Lesley Riddoch, Rob Edwards and CommonSpace editor Ben Wray

The international trade secretary’s speech at London’s DSEI arms fair follows a recent report of illegal Saudi airstrikes

With the western powers negotiating with the Taliban, 18 years of ceaseless bloodshed has proven to be pointless

THIS week marks the centenary of Afghan independence from British rule (19 August).

The occasion was marked by weekend bombings, claimed by the Islamic State franchise in Afghanistan, even as the US edges closer to a deal with the Taliban.

The publication of GERS has been accompanied by the standard deficit fundamentalism about Scotland’s public finances – but is there an alternative approach to fiscal policy?

AS SCOTLAND’S political geeks scrap it out over the GERS report, another finding on the UK’s public finances flew under the radar.

Comment on GERS figures from Derek Mackay, Patrick Harvie, Richard Leonard, Ruth Davidson and Craig Dalzell

The Revive coalition argues the case of Alan Wilson, who avoided a custodial sentence for the illegal killing of wildlife, “highlights significant failings in the justice system”