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“It’s hard to see now what is going to prevent a tidal wave of evictions sweeping people into homelessness services” – Director of Shelter Scotland.
The Battle Against Homelessness Post-Coronavirus
Do you know about the Covid Corporate Financing Facility? Well, don’t beat yourself up if the answer’s ‘no’, very few do. You’ll find it scarcely reported in today’s papers. In fact, the Bank of England at first wanted no one to know about it – they sought to give out public money to corporations in […]
The corporate bailout you’ve never heard of
How can Scotland hold a public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic, when no written advice was recorded in the opening months of the crisis?
Scotland’s missing Covid-19 paper trail: Five questions that need to be answered
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is set to take questions today from MSPs on the care homes crisis, the eye of the Covid-19 storm in Scotland. Yesterday’s weekly National Records of Scotland statistics revealed that there are now more deaths in care homes than the rest of Scotland combined, a tragic outcome three months into a […]
Care Homes crisis: 4 questions for the Health Secretary
“Far from our economic model being the realisation of Adam Smith’s dream, it is the embodiment of his worst fears. It’s not a ‘free market’ – it’s a cartel.”
Robin McAlpine: I’m a socialist – but I’m here to save capitalism
“The immediate need is that the Scottish Government learns from mistakes that have probably cost hundreds of lives. This is not an argument that the Scottish Government has done better or worse than other governments, but simply that they need to be open about what has gone wrong, consult and act.”
Nick Kempe: Isolation, human rights and keeping older people safe in care homes
“The extent of US influence engenders the most profound questions of democratic sovereignty, war and peace, and economic and social life. These questions are posed afresh by the post-Cold War decline of US hegemony and its always questionable moral authority. Is there a viable alternative to being a province of the empire?”
After the US: Is Scottish neutrality a viable future?
“Tax dodging billionaires seeking taxpayer bailouts and the collapse of global supply chains are just two of the very obvious failings of the free market during the pandemic. They highlight the fundamental weaknesses of a system that does not allocate resources efficiently, let alone fairly.”
Dave Watson: ‘Resilience Economics’ must be credible – and build a better society for all
Live in Edinburgh? Your city needs you. For the good of Scotland’s capital, you must “act like a tourist”. You see, the tourist industry doesn’t have any tourists to sell their stuff to, so residents need to take their place. Out of the goodness of your hearts, the people of Edinburgh need to rush back […]
‘Act like a tourist’, or build community wealth?
Following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, we need to look at the institutional racism still prevalent, and why we still need the Black Lives Matter movement.
Institutional Racism in 2020: Not Just a Problem in the US
A panic about contact tracing in Minnesota, United States, spread after Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said that they were “contact tracing” protestors there. “As we’ve begun making arrests, we have begun analysing the data of who we have arrested and begun actually doing what we think is almost pretty similar to our Covid [strategy]. […]
Why outsourcing and secrecy is the route to contact tracing and testing failure
“The position of the SSPCA speaks to a distinctly Scottish approach to wildlife crime that empowers the third sector in a manner largely unknown throughout the rest of the UK. The idea behind such distinction – that Scotland can and perhaps should do things differently – is potent.”