Can Fiscal Rules Ever Be Fair?
William Thompson explains why monetary theory can help explain why the UK Government fiscal rules grind down the poorest for no good economic reason.
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Editorial: New Coalitions of Service and Care
Thousands of people are being left to their own communities and collective devices to look after one another. But within the cracks in the welfare and care system, beautiful things can grow.
Defanging the DWP
A Scottish Minimum Income Guarantee could loosen the grip of a punishing welfare regime, writes Jen Bell.
Whither Welfare State Nationalism?
Now past 10 years since Indyref, Arianna Introna offers a disability justice perspective on the waning of welfare demands by the independence movement.
We Feel Discarded
Insulted by the scrapping of the National Care Service, disabled people will renew our struggle for deep and principled care service reform, writes April O’Neill.
The Path to Public Care Provision
With the end of the NCS, Susan Galloway sets out the union alternative for national care, backed by UNISON and the wider union movement
The National Care Service: A Victim of Elite Class Struggle
Behind the petty politics, market-based providers were pushing hard to obstruct reforms, writes Luke Beesley.
Care for a Profit?
Iain Ferguson considers the flaws of the now-failed Bill and what the latest policy-shift means for the vision of profit-free care.
The Wasted Power of Pensions
Dave Watson introduces the latest Reid Foundation report, Pension Fund Investment and the Economy, on how pension fund investment can better serve both public workers and the Scottish economy.
Technical Solutions to Fuel Poverty: A Retrospective
Colin Porteous reflects on the work of Technical Services Agency and its damp-busting and flat-building achievements in 1980s Glasgow.