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The Scottish Government continues to show bad faith when it comes to Freedom of Information, spending more time and effort to conceal information than it would take to simply comply with the spirit of the legislation.
It’s time we talked about it
It’s a subject that we need to talk about, perhaps uncomfortable and easier not to, but with Ash Regan’s proposed Prostitution Bill we may need to. Sex work often stays in the shadows, and as a society on the whole that’s the way we like it. But this new Bill may make us address some things.
What we are doing isn’t working - is it time for some utopia?
The one rule in politics is that all you can talk about is how you will change what is already there. But what if what is already there is so broken it will never work again?
Burning Down The House Of Cards
Rachel Reeves appears to be ready to remove banking regulations put in place after the 2008 Financial Crash, and setting us up for a repeat of it in the future.
Flamingoland: we have a system which itself is corrupt
An architect with 45 years of experience working in England cannot understand what he has seen in the Flamingoland decision. Perhaps it is time for direct democracy…
Why we should listen to a car boss if we want a GP appointment
The Western world has had a dominant model of how to do things for 40 years and it is clearly failing while China has a different model which very clearly works. It is time we started learning.
Why are we the sick person?
A Minimum Income Would Be A Real Cost Of Living Guarantee
Instead of a “Cost of Living Guarantee” that doesn’t actually guarantee that you can meet the cost of living, John Swinney should adopt the long-awaited publication of a proposal for a Minimum Income Guarantee.
Your Vote Matters
Frances Corr from Youth Voting Matters calls for young people in Scotland to be registered to vote from age 14.
What should we think about weight-loss drugs?
I want to choose how I’m cared for when I get old
None of us know what our health will bring in the future. A Living Will can help ensure that we get the care we want no matter what happens to us.
Programme for Government 2025 - In Review
A review of this year’s Programme for Government and some suggestions for “tweaks” we could have seen.
That’s so woke: time for a language of emancipation
The far right pose a threat in Scotland too, and we can’t be complacent by saying ‘independence will save us’ especially if the independence we offer is built on the economics which have given rise to the far right, i.e. austerity and the sustainable growth commission.
In an era of psychos we must learn from sociopathy
Sociopathy is both a real condition and also a perfect metaphor for our institutions. We need to learn from one to understand the other
The fragility of peace
Poor Show Swinney
John Swinney believes, falsely, that increasing social security payments for poor parents will discourage them from working.
Accent bias - What it actually means
They should ban that sort of thing!
Bans save lives - but they also ruin lives. To get them right we need an ethical and moral framework that helps us to understand the difference.
Our identities are tearing us apart
A major study has shown that between left and right we share little identity in common now, but that that is also true within the left. Without collective identity can we reverse polarisation?
The trouble with Erdoğan
For many people in the West, Turkish President’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s support for Palestine has bought him a lot of good will. Sadly, this comes from ignorance and is certainly not merited.
