The Scottish Government has published its draft budget for the coming year. I wrote a pre-budget briefing for the Jimmy Reid Foundation o...

 Let’s talk about water and wastewater. A subject that is rarely discussed in Scotland for two main reasons. Firstly, it rains a lot, so we ...

  Keep Britain Working is the final report of the Mayfield Review into the issues surrounding ill-health and disability in the workplace. ...

 I was speaking at an EIS conference last Saturday on the challenges facing our democracy. It prompted me to examine the evidence more close...

 Following the publication of its new Defence Strategy, the UK Government has now released its Defence Industrial Strategy , titled 'Mak...

 I have been working with the Tax Justice Scotland campaign on the case for Council Tax reform. This week, we have published a briefing th...

  The much-trailed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was  published  yesterday. It was timely for me as I was participating in a European se...