Council budgets for Edinburgh and Glasgow set to be decided next week

THE SCOTTISH GREENS have set out their priorities for two of Scotland’s major city council budgets ahead of their finalisation next week.

Common Weal head of policy Ben Wray charts how mothers - often the hardest hit by the benefit cap - in Edinburgh are organising against the injustices in the housing system

AS winter comes in, and the nights get cold and icy, the spectre of homelessness for people all over Scotland becomes that little bit more frightening. This winter is set to be bad. A combination of cuts, increased cost of living and an acute housing crisis is taking its toll, forcing people into destitution.

Proposed monument would recognise Scotland’s contribution to Great War poetry

A ‘SCOTTISH POETS CORNER’, which would memorialise Scotland’s contribution to poetry during the First World War, has received backing from Edinburgh West MP and Liberal Democrat Scottish spokesperson Christine Jardine and the Scottish Poetry Library.

Speakers at Monday’s vigil condemned the far right and Donald Trump

EDINBURGH joined cities across the UK and the United States on Monday evening in a vigil for Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old activist killed on Saturday afternoon when a car plowed through an anti-fascist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scott Wilson checks in from the Edinburgh International Film Festival in between world premieres, red carpets, and a shocking amount of emails

THE life of a film critic is alright. On press days, we sit for about nine hours and watch a number of films in a row at a private screening.

CommonSpace film critic Scott Wilson chats to Jamie Chambers, the director of the Folk Film Gathering, at the launch of the festival’s third year

“WHO ARE THE FOLK? What do we think of when we think of the folk on screen?” asks Jamie Chambers, director of the Folk Film Gathering, the world’s first folk film festival. “It’s very specific to who is invoking the folk, and why they are invoking the folk.”

Campaigners suggest that strategy to deal with homelessness lacks effectiveness 

THE Living Rent campaign, Scotland's tenant union, has said more effort into tackling privately-rented housing is needed in a bid to tackle homelessness in Scotland.