Contrary to what Dugdale’s defenders would have us believe, list MSPs do important work

No-one who’s been criticising the former Labour leader is trying to suggest she’s Batman, and that Lothian is in danger of being seized by garish super-villains as a direct consequence of her absence. They’re surely just suggesting she might have, you know, a real job?

Channel 4’s Eden wasn’t a failure – here’s what we can learn from it

As a TV programme, Eden failed. But as an experiment it succeeded in showing how how right-wing ideology conflicts with the aim of building a cohesive community.

Channel 4’s Eden is back after a mysterious silence – so what on earth went wrong?

It’s been months – the whole of autumn and half of winter – and we haven’t heard a peep from the participants. It seems clear this very expensive experiment hasn’t quite gone to plan.