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Crisis-Hit Scottish NHS Needs ‘Pandemic-Style’ Plan This Winter

A pandemic-style plan is needed to protect the NHS this winter, a report by Our Scottish Future says. Ministers should implement a series of emergency measures to protect the NHS from potential collapse – and where possibly, do so on a “four nations” basis, with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Wishful Thinking and Economic Policy

Wishful thinking and economic policy don’t mix. Just ask Liz Truss, and Kwasi Kwarteng. Wishful thinking is all over the SNP’s latest economic argument for Scottish independence as well, only much more of it.

Scotland Deserves Better Than Two Bad Choices

Scotland should not be forced into deciding between two bad choices. There should instead be a more hopeful vision of an empowered Scotland within a reformed Union.

Growth Plan Needed to Avert £2bn Black Hole

Scotland urgently needs a new long-term plan for growth or else governments will be forced to impose increasingly higher taxes on a permanent basis, a new report for Our Scottish Future warns today.

Kirsty McNeill Named As New Our Scottish Future Advisory Board Chair

Anti-poverty campaigner Kirsty McNeill has today been named as the chair of Our Scottish Future’s new Advisory Board.

3 Failures of Cooperation – And How Collaboration Can Save The Future

Recently our politics has been defined by opposition, with political combat between countries, parties and individuals becoming the norm. This lack of political cooperation at all levels benefits no one, and we are now seeing the results play out with devastating consequences.

Cooperation not Competition – Building a Better Britain

Today our country needs leaders whose eyes are fixed on the future. And cooperation is the way of the future. With global problems like pandemics and climate change that cannot be solved by nation states on their own and with every country’s independence limited by their interdependence, nationalism is yesterday’s response to today’s challenges. The new Prime Minister should put constructive cooperation between our four nations at the heart of their vision for a British future.

Former Leader of the Scottish Greens Responds to Proposals for a Second Referendum

In response to Nicola Sturgeon’s proposals for a second referendum, Robin Harper, the former leader of the Scottish Greens, said: “We would be much better off talking about how to improve the performance of the UK through an all encompassing refresh of how our democracy works, and how we can improve it to serve all four UK administrations.”

Cooperation Can Build a Better NHS

In a new comment piece published today in The Lancet, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and leading cancer specialist Professor David Kerr make the case for greater cooperation in health care provision in the UK.

Here We Go Again

Here we go again? Probably not. Nicola Sturgeon has fired a starting gun, but aimed at whom? Not the people of Scotland, who are distinctly negative about a referendum soon, but her supporters who are keen on it. She knows 2023 won’t see a referendum.