Joe Fagan: “I would never personally take a seat in the Lords. And not just because I think the robes look 'ridiculous'.”

It’s time to reach out beyond the Holyrood bubble and shake up Scottish politics.

Scottish Labour has to change more than the faces at the top.

Unison is right. You cannot rebuild public services by cutting the jobs of the people who deliver them.

If reform is needed, it should start with backing the workforce, funding councils fairly and stopping public money being drained into excessive profits in social care.