The new Lib Dem leader has said she would not work with a Corbyn-led government

One Asda worker in Scotland told GMB that the new ‘flexible’ contract would make it impossible for her to meet home and work commitments

Collective wellbeing more important than GDP, First Minister argues

“Lively” second independence referendum debate between the two leaders

Trump will fight the 2020 presidential election with a mixture of anti-leftism and racial animus

US President Donald Trump kicked-off his re-election campaign on 14 July by denouncing four Democratic politicians who he said should “go back” to their own countries.

The four Congresswomen, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, are all US citizens and members of US minority communities.

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray says shocking new Scottish drug death statistics cannot be blamed just on one party, or one parliament – it’s a collective political failure more than 20 years in the making

THE new figures on drug-related deaths in Scotland are simultaneously shocking and predictable.

1,187 deaths last year, 27 per cent higher than the previous year. Drug deaths have doubled since 2008, and for the first first time more people died from drugs than alcohol this year. Drug deaths in Scotland are the highest in the EU. 

“It is ironic that on the very day the Bureau is making this case against the British government’s surveillance regime in the highest court in Europe, the same government is hosting a global summit on press freedom.”

TIE campaign calls on all Scottish MPs to vote in favour of the two amendments, “and take a step towards delivering these long overdue rights”

Wightman, who has campaigned for short-term lets regulation since entering the Scottish Parliament in 2016, said the debate had been “bedevilled by misinformation”

It takes an exceptional degree of western cognitive bias to not see that it is the United States that is the bully, the aggressor and the international-law breaker in this conflict, not Iran