A new Reid Foundation paper with Scottish Hazards: Tackling the causes of working-age ill health. It sets out ways that governments could address the causes of ill health in the workplace and broader health inequalities - before cutting benefits.

RT @Scottishleftrev: Our latest issue is now online📰. “Duties Against Empire” features new writing on resisting rearmament, militarism, and….

The inside story on firms feasting on Scotland's nationalised trains. ScotRail trains are leased from the private sector at eye-watering cost to the taxpayer. 25% of every ticket sold in Scotland goes to private companies leasing “rolling stock”.

Tourist chiefs call out Edinburgh on 'unworkable' levy. Amazing how the hotel industry manages this in most major cities across the world- but Edinburgh can’t!

Financial services hit by 'less-attractive' Scottish taxes. So they want more government support but lower taxes! For supposedly intelligent investors, this is a joke.

MPs call for more transparency over Barnett formula calculations for Scotland. The committee also said consideration should be given to increasing Scottish ministers' ability to borrow cash for infrastructure projects.

We agree, and said so here.

Balancing the Scottish budget: the challenges ahead. The Scottish Budget must be balanced, so the difference between spending plans and revenue will have to be addressed by reducing planned spending or increasing devolved tax revenues.

Roz Foyer: “The Employment Rights Bill could be the biggest upgrade in working rights for a generation. But this isn’t the final stop. We must go further to rebalance power between those who make the wealth and those who enjoy it.”

What’s the forever chemical TFA doing in the UK’s rivers? A forever chemical known as TFA is accumulating in our environment, contaminating our rivers, food and even our wine. The River Kelvin has high levels, even if no wine!

Can Glasgow and Edinburgh follow Greater Manchester's lead? “What evidence we have on the impacts of mayors driving economic change in other localities, and this does not appear to be clear cut.” Because there isn’t any! We need bottom up change.

Following Engender report, female councillor on 'male aggression' in Scottish council. “We’re told women aren’t robust enough for politics. But what that really means is that we won't match the masculine aggression that some men bring.”

RT @FBUScotland: Today we remember our brother, firefighter, Ewan Williamson. Ewan tragically died in the line of duty fighting a fire at t….

Government inheriting poor value assets due to bad handling of PFI contracts. PAC report called on ministers to ensure such contracts were carefully managed so that private sector firms complied with their contractual obligations.

Social security reforms ignore devolution. This means that we are only ever getting a partial picture of how proposed changes might be rolled out, or how their impact might depend on how they intersect with other multi-layered systems of support.

Workplaces are not equipped to deal with heatwaves and are putting workers at risk, study warns. “If the risk assessment process is not undertaken, many workers may be left to work in conditions that are not only uncomfortable but potentially harmful.”

RT @resfoundation: The effects of place on regional earnings inequality is much larger than previous data suggested - roughly one-third of….

1.6 million children live in families made poorer by the two-child limit on benefits. Its sister policy, the benefit cap, affects over 115,000 households, including 300,000 children. It pushes families far below the poverty line of 60% of median income.

Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why. One takeaway from the Vienna case may be that policy matters. Through long-term commitment to social housing and limited privatisation, housing can be made better and more affordable.

As much as £5bn needed to revive UK’s struggling high streets, study finds. “A struggling high street is the outcome of a struggling [local] economy, not the other way round,” A point we made in our Scottish local economy report last year.

Parental leave in the UK isn’t working – here’s what needs to change. Parents that have explored shared parental leave have found the policy and process incredibly complex.