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Neil Cowan

Herald Scotland

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New term at Holyrood brings pressure on Swinney to deliver on human rights

The Scottish election is well and truly over and the work of governing Scotland begins. Our new and returning MSPs have been sworn in, and the...

18.05.2026 10

Herald Scotland

Neil Cowan

We must guard against mass surveillance

Across the world, live facial recognition technologies are being used in all manner of ways to stifle protest, harass minority communities and impinge...

17.06.2025 30

Herald Scotland

Neil Cowan

The priority must be to end poverty, not worsen it

It can be forgotten, amid the day-to-day machinations of our parliaments, that politics is really quite simple. At its heart, it is a case of...

29.04.2025 10

Herald Scotland

Neil Cowan