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What’s the point of the Scottish government’s ‘non-optional guidance’ on Covid?
Scotland is sleepwalking into a fresh crisis under the SNP-Green coalition, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
IF YOU had told anyone in Scotland this time last year that we would be facing the very real prospect of an imminent lockdown, they would have lamented.
They would have told you that was surely impossible, valuable lessons would be learned and applied in the year that followed. But this is exactly the position we find ourselves in.
The SNP, just like the Tories, will tell you the situation is essentially not one of their making and is due to the freak occurrence of a new variant.
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