All governments have a defence strategy, which typically outlines the threats and how the government proposes to respond to those threats. T...

 'Hope and Despair' is the appropriate title of Neil Findlay's new book covering the last few years of his time as an MSP. It ...

I was in Westminster this week at the launch of a paper on defence procurement I wrote for the Prospect trade union.  The launch included in...

 I was doing a general update on pensions last week for a gathering of pension trustees. I have long been interested in pensions, even befor...

 I was speaking at the launch of the report ' Post-pandemic Hopes and Disappointments ', which looks at post-pandemic social care a...

I was speaking at an  event  hosted by the Jimmy Reid Foundation on the reform of Freedom of Information (FoI) in Scotland last night. Topic...

 With NHS reform getting a lot of attention, the Socialist Health Association Scotland has published a discussion paper I drafted that outli...