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Woman with long hair holding a mug, under a blanket and looking out of a window with rain on it

3 Apr 2025

Cold water thrown on Scotland’s clean heat bill
Alarm clock with text reading time to tax

30 Mar 2025

Shadow Economy
A black and white photo of a child walking down the street wearing a winter hat. You can see adults legs walking alongside.

27 Mar 2025

‘Collective political negligence’ blamed for Scotland’s missed interim child poverty target
Big Ben and Houses of Parliament as viewed from above

27 Mar 2025

Missed opportunity to tackle poverty, combat climate change and bolster public services
Image on green background of person in a suit, with money bag covering their head, pointing. Tax reads: Scots say, tax the richest more now

25 Mar 2025

Scots say: increase taxes on the richest, rather than make cuts to public spending
Image of layers of GBP bank notes laying on a flat surface

18 Mar 2025

UK social security cut while ballooning bank balances of richest get off scot-free
Image of a thermostat on a wall

12 Mar 2025

Ministers must turn up the heat, not freeze progress on clean heat transition
35-year-old Nadia Zahad, a refugee from the Sudan war, sits on the edge of a bed inside a tent in South Sudan. Her son Ismail is on her lap.

6 Mar 2025

Scottish Government funding offers vital relief for refugees fleeing Sudan
Refugee Asia* washing her hand at an Oxfam supported WASH facility at their shelter at the transit center in Renk

2 Mar 2025

Scotland must reject Keir Starmer's back-sliding on foreign aid
Children and their families walking in single file through the rubble of destroed buildings in Northern Gaza

26 Feb 2025

Scottish Government must stop bankrolling Gaza implicated arms firms

20 Feb 2025

Scottish Government’s shelving of national care commitment is a ‘slap in the face’ to carers
Private jet on runway at sunset

19 Feb 2025

First Minister offers ‘in principle support’ of private jet tax