Where is the SNP going on fracking?
by Allan Grogan Thomas Carlyle once wrote that “the greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none”. I am often reminded of this as I see the Scottish ...
Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern
by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity ...
Benefit cuts link to deaths
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson All deaths impact on the family and friends of the person who has died. Especially so when it is by someone’s own ...
Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald ...
Challenging revenge porn at its roots
by Jenni Gunn There have been many high-profile victims in recent years of a dangerous online phenomenon—revenge porn. Whilst celebrity victims have garnered the lion’s ...
Time for a citizens’ solution to Scotland’s media crisis
by Jack Ferguson The recent news that the editor of both the Sunday Herald and The National, Richard Walker, is to resign as part of an effort by owners Newsquest to cut ...
Neither Sturgeon or Corbyn have the answer
by Ken Ferguson There is an old saying “nothing is new under the sun” and nowhere is this more clearly the case as in the world of politics. With the demands and the ...
Refugee crisis is foretaste of things to come from climate change
by Jack Ferguson In 2015, Europe has begun to get a small foretaste of the human costs of climate change. There are many complex reasons why there are thousands of desperate ...
Why the indyref changed us all
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Looking at social media at the moment. It is full of people’s memories of when we were on the eve of the referendum, one ...
A healthy Scottish media is essential for democracy
NUJ Scottish Organiser Paul Holleran surveys the media scene While the business of publishing newspapers is still a profitable pastime there is no denying it is at a ...
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