Articles, Interviews, and Stories from the ISP and Guest Contributors from around Scotland
Storm Arwen and the North-East Energy firms have spent £730m on resilience in the last five years, but speaking in committee at the House of
“The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process
Scotland’s Finances Speaking on Good Morning Scotland recently, Kate Forbes refuted the GERS figures yet again. She pointed out that much of the data is
Europe The EU is in a mess over migrants, national legislation and borders. It condemned Hungary in 2018 for criminalising those helping asylum seekers. Lithuania
How will the ISP mark this event? In response to International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Women’s Committee of the
COP26 A disappointing climate conference culminated in a commitment to phase down coal use, rather than phase it out, and to work to remove inefficient
We can do better. We have to be better. In the margins, in the small details, we have been doing some better. We’ve spent
The Free State of Govan The Free State of Govan issued its first communique promising to work together with the UK government, the Scottish government
Free by 23? Considerable doubt has been raised as to the likelihood of a referendum by the end of 2023, and as to how far
In the article, ‘Purring With Displeasure’, I last week described how we haven’t faced a situation where two parliaments are sitting, one in Edinburgh and
