The campaign to be the next First Minister of Scotland was fractious to say the least. All the candidates were more than willing to drill down into their opponents records and shine a light...
Author: Alison Watson
Coronavirus crisis is no time for compromises
If politics is the art of the possible, then the Scottish Government’s rapid intervention to lift rough sleepers off Scotland’s streets was a masterpiece to sit alongside anything in the...
A housing crisis with a human cost
Last week, we had a lunchtime screening at Shelter Scotland’s Edinburgh hub, of Ken Loach’s ‘Cathy Come Home’ film, from 1966. In 1968, shortly after this film was aired for the first...