The SNP consultant who met Cambridge Analytica has stated the firm are a “bunch of cowboys”

The former SNP digital strategist who met Cambridge Analytica in 2016 has said that he advised the SNP to "not touch the company with a barge pole". 

On Monday CommonSpace identified Kirk J. Torrance as the independent consultant who met the scandal-hit firm, and Torrance later issued a statement confirming the meeting and the conclusions he drew from it, which he said the party accepted.

SNP Councillor Graham Campbell, journalist Robert Somynne and Sir Geoff Palmer spoke to CommonSpace about the issues facing the Windrush generation

THE WINDRUSH crisis is a symptom of Britain’s racist empire legacy and the intensified anti-immigrant sentiment characteristic of recent years, children of Caribbean migrants have said. 

Public and parliamentary opinion against intervention as government presses ahead with plans for missile attack

JUST 22 per cent of Britons support the UK Government’s plans to begin missile strikes on Syria, a YouGov poll has found.

Commissioned by The Times newspaper, a new poll shows support for UK airstrikes against Syria is down by two points from 25 per cent in 2013, when MPs voted against military intervention in the ongoing civil war. 43 per cent of voters now say they oppose airstrikes, while 34 per cent say they ”don’t know”.

Following a vote on potential UN responses to the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria, UK ambassador Karen Pierce said Karl Marx “must be turning in his grave”

COMMONSPACE can report, to the surprise of no one but the UK’s ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce, that the Soviet Union has fallen and Russia is no longer a communist state.

In a 'cease and desist' letter, the Dundee based company accused the Brexiteer-MP of copying the "snootiness" of its character

THE SCOTS COMPANY behind Britains longest running comic The Beano has issued a cease and desist letter to the eurosceptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, accusing the Tory of masquerading as its character Walter Brown. 

The pro-Brexit group has been condemned after a series of anti-Muslim tweets

THE ANTI-EU campaign group backed by Nigel Farage during the EU referendum has been condemned after a series of Islamophobic tweets from its official Twitter account, including one on the supposed "Punish a Muslim" day. 

Some of the claims made by the group have also been debunked and labeled as fake news. 

An email encouraging violence against Catholics has been sent to a Glasgow MSP 

AN MSP has been targetted by a "vile" email circular encouraging violence against Scotland's Catholic community, the "Smash a Fenian" email, thought to mimic a similar “Punish a Muslim” event, claims to award points for varying acts of violence.

Mr Dornan has reported the communication to Police Scotland and the Scottish Parliament's security team. 

CommonSpace investigates online abuse after campaign is launched blasting #ToxicTwitter for failing to protect user

RESEARCH by CommonSpace into the level and nature of abuse directed to Scots politicians online has revealed the daily reality of online campaigns of abuse which is often misogynistic, racist and homophobic. 

Jackson Carlaw has faced criticism for asking Scotland’s Muslim MSPs to condemn efforts to block pro-Israeli groups from anti-racism march

SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE MSP Jackson Carlaw has come under fire after singling out SNP MSP Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Anas Sarwar in a call for condemnation of reports that pro-Israeli groups were blocked from a Glasgow Stand Up to Racism on Saturday.

Michael Russell asks if Ruth Davidson should resign following anger from fishing industry over broken Tory promises

THE LATEST DRAFT AGREEMENT on Brexit between the UK and the European Union amounts to a “massive sellout of the Scottish fishing industry by the Tories,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.