Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that the Scottish Government has made a mess of education policy, principally because it’s approach to policy-making is uninformed, top-down and half-baked

AS THE Scottish school holidays peter out, parents' minds turn to all those little back to school jobs that need done. But the challenges for the Scottish Government over the coming school year are somewhat greater than buying lunchboxes and pencil sharpeners.

May and Sturgeon duel over the economic and constitutional consequences of 'blind Brexit'

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met in Edinburgh yesterday (8 August), ostensibly to discuss a new city deal for Edinburgh and the South East of Scotland.

Inevitably, that business quickly gave way to the latest iteration of the ongoing standoff over Brexit and its potential economic and constitutional impact. Amidst a chaotic and uncertain Brexit negotiation process, both leaders are trying to maneuver for advantage.

Audit Scotland's report said the new crossing was 'value for money' and provided lessons for entire public sector 

A NEW report assessing the delivery of the Scottish Government's flagship replacement crossing linking Fife and Edinburgh has said the project was managed effectively, saying delays in the opening of the bridge were “reasonable” due to severe weather. 

Opened last year, the £1.34bn bridge across the Forth came in under budget, and Audit Scotland has said the wider public sector should learn from the flagship projects management. 

Latest figures show a dramatic rise in the number of Scottish households reliant on emergency welfare

CITIZENS ADVICE SCOTLAND (CAS) have called upon the UK Government to fix the problems with a social security system that is “not getting adequate support on time to those who need it,” after it was revealed that almost 300,000 households have required emergency financial aid from the Scottish Government over the past five years.

Effectively combating climate change is only possible by recognising that we are already in the midst of a global catastrophe

CLIMATE CHANGE, for those who believe that scientists know something about science, traversed from theory to reality before any of us were born. That the Earth was capable of vast climactic shifts was recognised as early as the late 18th century; a hundred years later, the unwitting (or uncaring) role which humanity’s influence played in such environmental upheavals was first posited.

Allotments campaigner Judy Wilkinson says there is now an opportunity to make allotments part of a movement disrupting the present to make a future where community life, healthy living, local democracy and the natural world are intertwined through the allotment in every part of Scotland

DISRUPTORS’ events are everywhere these days from Sir Richard Branson on energy disruptors in Calgary, to RBCDisruptors to CNBC list of 50 Disruptor start ups.