Home - City of Edinburgh Council Webcasts

Humanists UK has expressed concern at the UK Government’s proposals on asylum policy announced yesterday. Government plans will see the ability of refugees granted asylum to rebuild their lives be ham...

Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew, ...

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

Beechmount is a rather grand house situated in 8 acres of leafy grounds in the Murrayfield district of Edinburgh. It's been on and off the property market in recent years and although the listings make reference to its spell as a convalescent hospital, they always seem to overlook its brief but important pioneering work in the field of radiotherapy. This thread looks at the history of the Beechmount Institute and the scary-sounding Edinburgh Radium Bomb.

Our newest MSP Jamie Greene has hit the ground running since he joined us last month. Since being appointed as Economy and Finance spokesperson by Alex Cole-Hamilton, he has been holding the SNP to ac...

The recent Supreme Court judgement on the definition of a women by “biological sex”, a concept described by BMA resident doctors as “scientifically illiterate” has caused real anxiety amongst trans pe...

Moves to ban conversion therapy in Scotland will not take place before the next Holyrood election after the Scottish Government ran out of time to…

As the shockwave of Wednesday’s bombshell Supreme Court decision has landed, we are now seeing the rapid erosion of some civil liberties in the UK. Although the court’s decision itself ruled on a fair...