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Sketch: Free Heidi Allen

The Tories, the Independent Group, Change UK, an independent MP and then rock bottom. It’s the oldest story in the world

Associate feature: Bright future for men in early years

Alison Malcolm, policy officer at the Scottish Funding Council, on tackling the male gender gap in subjects like nursing and childcare

Associate feature: Ambitious approach in Renfrewshire will deliver inclusive growth

Sketch: All across the UK, people are waking up to discover they have become Lib Dems

Jeane Freeman: striking the balance

Associate feature: Why social work is integral to good health

Associate feature: A compassionate Scotland needs everyone

The Conservatives' contempt will come back to haunt them

Associate feature: Primary care services from your local community pharmacy

Sketch: The rise of Willie Rennie Mackintosh

Willie Rennie: despite Brexit, there is still reason to be hopeful

Patrick Harvie: 'Holyrood can and must be bolder'

Richard Leonard: This next year will be dominated by fundamental questions about our identity and our place in the world

Ruth Davidson: do not treat compromise as a dirty word

Nicola Sturgeon: Boris Johnson appears to have learned nothing from the mistakes of his predecessor

Sketch: Scottish Labour, nationalist traps and indyref2

Losing sight of women’s rights: policy capture and public policy

Associate feature: SEPA is putting ‘one planet prosperity’ at the heart of its regulatory strategy

Who owns the drug problem, and who is to be bold?

Division now infects every part of our politics

More empowerment of councils is needed to tackle poverty

Could do better: the SNP's failures in education look likely to turn into its toxic legacy

Sketch: The Ross Thomson school of campaign management

Associate feature: A big journey for a small start-up

Sketch: MSPs get off track

Screaming at the void - how the far right have destroyed debate