A party in desperate need of change
Barrie Cunning, former Scottish Labour candidate for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, says today’s disunited Labour Party is failing to provide effective opposition to a weak and divided government. ...
Labour must be the party of equality again
Cate Vallis, who is standing for election to the National Policy Forum, says the Labour Party’s decision not to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism flies in the face...
Happy birthday, NHS
Jim O’Neill assesses the health of the NHS in Scotland as we celebrate its 70th birthday. It is now 70 years since Nye Bevan had to “stuff doctors’...
FMQs Review: Sturgeon wrong-footed after Gillian Martin comments
Kieran Cowan reviews the final First Minister’s Questions before summer recess. FMQs opened with the stunning development that Gillian Martin had been dropped by the Government from her...
Support the Aberdeen Nine
Professor Hugh Pennington tells us why he has launched an online petition calling on the Labour Party to end the suspension of the nine Aberdeen Labour councillors who are...
“Sorry, we can’t find an ambulance”
Jim O’Neill returns from Oz to find the same faces overseeing the same failures in Scottish public services, and thinks New Zealand may have a better example to offer...
The next Labour leader is you
Nick Ward was raised and educated in Scotland and then lived and taught in London before returning north to co-found Education Fellowship Scotland. Here he sets out five ways...