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Inside the campaign to tax the poor
Here we go again - the Scottish establishment is back demanding that students pay the price for how universities have been run in recent decades. The one thing they won’t seem to countenance is putting their hands in their own pockets.
A bankrupt university is a serious warning
The climate crisis is fairly clean cut for most of us. We need to stop the emissions and cut down on fossil fuel reliance. Scotland is fairly unique, as a country it omits a lot of carbon but additionally it has a very well established oil and gas industry.
A politics of empathy is hard - but very powerful
We talk about empathy in politics as if it is the easy choice and the real work is the ‘difficult decisions’ which entire lack empathy. It is entirely the other way round - and we desperately need a politics of empathy.
Britain’s aid shame
Graph of the Week - 14/March/2025
Democracy By All Of Us
With a single act, the Scottish Parliament could radically overhaul our devolved democracy and put people at the heart of holding our legislators to account.
A new Scottish model
The world is changing is changing and Scotland will have to as well. Let’s not be swept around by events, let’s create a strategy.