As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON

The city has some of the most expensive, fragmented and unreliable buses in Britain – the case for bringing buses back into public ownership has never been stronger, says GRACE STEVENS

England rise, France gamble and Ireland search for stability in the wide-open title race which begins on Thursday, writes FOSTER NIUMATA

MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used

From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP