GORDON MUNRO asks what next for Scottish council budgets

The cash is there to properly fund Scottish councils, yet over six years since the emergency situation we are in was made plain, the Scottish government plays evasion games, writes GORDON MUNRO

Real future planning is needed that moves debate beyond the primacy and comfort zone of Yes v No, says GORDON MUNRO

To pay for a council tax freeze to woo the voters, the SNP has repeatedly cut local authorities' cash elsewhere — then campaigned against the problems it had created itself, writes GORDON MUNRO

Does Holyrood have the political will to address the funding problems facing local government, asks GORDON MUNRO

Debut poetry collection does what it says on the tin

If the regime of cuts to council budgets continues, we can expect more and more people to refuse to implement them, writes GORDON MUNRO

The silent slaughter of Scottish council budgets is a choice not a necessity, writes GORDON MUNRO

GORDON MUNRO writes on the SNP's war on local government

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Darren McGarvey’s experience of poverty in Glasgow, and the political lessons he’s learned from it, make for a gripping and essential read, says GORDON MUNRO