Commissioned by Revive. A pr oposal for a Local Authority controlled Land Tax with projected revenue for each Local Authority in Scotland

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The image above appeared on the front cover of the Sunday National on 16 August 2026. The story highlighted the ongoing charges faced by the Isle of Skye Ferry CIC, the community company that operates...

Major and Blair – the men responsible for Scotland’s seemingly endless PFI debt. What!? £600m in one year ‘repaying private firms?’ Surely the headline should tell us who is…

Thanks to Dave Lodge for sharing this with me. From CEO CalMac, Diane Burke, to all staff, in recent days: and: Note that all of this has been shared with ‘our’ news media yet, as you k…

This always happens, every time I decide to take a bit of time off, a big news story breaks and it’s back to the keyboard. On Tuesday, a Labour government memo was leaked which proves that Ke…

A major new poll was published on Wednesday which confirms other recent polls in showing that Scots are on track to elect a pro-independence majority to Holyrood in May’s election. Even bette…

In the final contribution in a series from Cove Park in Scotland, guest blogger Leena Nammari reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency, and practice-based research about heartbreak and grief in …

Latest attacks come amid a widely condemned Israeli push to cement control over the occupied Palestinian territory.

The only political parties opposed to Scottish independence are based in, controlled by, and largely funded from, another country.

Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

Musician said he hopes the offer will ‘ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government’

Demonstrators in Turkiye demand global pressure on Israel, calling the so-called ceasefire 'a slow-motion genocide'.

An informed public, understanding the UK money system, would be less duped by false framing

A new study from the Social Market Foundation presents the results of several Housing First pilot schemes, including one in Scotland, and finds that providing free housing to people suffering homelessness results in better outcomes than current services and is cheaper than not doing it.

Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed, attacked, and threatened both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president in recent years? I haven't – and I have a list of them.

Drug misuse deaths decreased in 2024Number of drug misuse deaths and 5-year rolling average, 1996 to 2024 ‘Milk blood to keep from running out’ – James Cook pushes Scotland’…

A Scottish trad arrangement of Vivaldi's 300-year-old 'The Four Seasons', highlighting its dance tunes and Scotland's climate concerns

One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy

FOR years, a large section of the independence movement has clung to a simplistic mantra: “Independence first, everything else later"

PROTESTERS are set to defy the Labour Government’s proscription of the group Palestine Action at a demonstration in Edinburgh, The National…

We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.