Wednesday, 23 November 2022
From the national to the local
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Yesterday, I was speaking at the book launch of ' A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society '. I have previou...
Monday, 7 November 2022
Action on health inequalities
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As the UK and Scottish Governments start the process towards another round of Austerity, we need to remember the impact this will have on he...
Friday, 7 October 2022
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library
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This is one of my favourite quotes about libraries, written by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It seems particularly appropriate ...
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Governing With Purpose - a guide for charity trustees
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As someone who works with and serves on several third-sector boards, I have sometimes wondered why anyone does this. External criticism and...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Tackling drug deaths - Scotland's national disgrace
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Scotland's drug-related death statistics are a national disgrace. In 2021, 1,330 people in Scotland died due to a drug overdose. That wa...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Lessons learned from the pandemic for social care
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I was in Stockholm this week speaking at a workshop looking at Europe-wide experiences of the pandemic on social care. The On the corona fro...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A New Scotland
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In the book , A New Scotland , leading activists and academics lay out the blueprints for radical reform, showing how society can be transfo...
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