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Inside of Holyrood's main debating chamber

1 May 2025

Time for Scottish Government to deliver
Little girl looking outside through door and window panes

30 Apr 2025

Why it’s time to raise the Scottish Child Payment
A man standing on a lush green hillside with arms spread in a yellow hat and black jacket

27 Apr 2025

'We cannot stay silent while climate action delayers stall progress'
A woman in a wide brimmed hat searches through the rubble of a residential building

6 Apr 2025

Myanmar: 'the horror and helplessness was hard to describe'
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