Karin Goodwin

Dublin’s Rialto Drug Team set a new standard with family-focused addiction support. Now, Scottish campaigners aim to adopt this model amid their own crisis.

When Glasgow showman Jimmy Stringfellow feels weary, he calls to mind his ancestors of centuries past. Traditionally, he says, as we stand in the family’s

MCC Brussels, a think tank funded by Hungary's populist government, is working with academics and campaigners with influence in Scotland.

A right-wing petition site, set up by an anti-LGBT Spanish lawyer, is campaigning to “protect”  Glasgow statues in the city's George Square and keep Stornoway's Tesco closed on Sundays.

Residents of Leith's iconic “banana flats” claim Edinburgh City Council is breaching their human rights due to persistent issues with toxic black mould, faulty lifts, drug dealing, and problems with mice and rats. 

A family is preparing to sue Scotland’s only private prison, HMP Addiewell, for negligence after their 22-year-old son died alone in his cell while awaiting mental health support.

Scotland’s most influential public relations companies are staffed by former politicians, government ministers, spin doctors and newspaper editors, The Ferret has found, as we looked at the “revolving door” between politics, the media and lobbying.

Unions have called for urgent clarity from Edinburgh university after it published an “incorrect” memo that said it had purchased an iconic A-listed office block while it was laying off staff. 

Only 11 of more than 1,000 deaths in Scottish mental health wards have been investigated, according to a new report by Glasgow University.

A legal challenge by by law firm Just Right Scotland means the Scottish Government will back date financial assistance and review support for hundreds of trafficking survivors.