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This April, new tax powers are being transferred to the Scottish parliament; and with 'the vow' delivered, this will be soon followed by further devolution. It is clear that this must be accompanied by the tools needed to allow the public to scrutinise the use of...

The Scottish Labour party was clear in its decision that Kezia Dugdale is exactly who we need as our new deputy leader. Today we saw why. In her first outing against Nicola Sturgeon at first minister’s questions, Kezia chose to lead on the highly topical issue of...

Now that the political summer break is finally over there is the opportunity for some healthy debate in the run-up to the TUC and political conferences. Nowhere is this needed more than in the vexed issue of energy. To read the newspapers in the last few months it...

Twenty-two years ago, many thousands of Iraqi Kurds fled to the mountains to escape the wrath of Saddam Hussein. Some of the stories of survival take your breath away. One father and his two daughters climbed a high mountain where their dilemma was simple: stay and...