The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The crime we should really be hating is incompetence
They have done it again, laments STEPHEN LOW, as the Scottish government passes another intrusive Act, this time on ‘hate crimes,’ that seems so unworkable even those announcing it could not describe it accurately
Campaigners gather outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh, to mark the introduction of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, April 1, 2024
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
IT DOESN’T take Malcolm Tucker levels of spin doctor sophistication to work out that April Fools Day might not be the date to bring in a controversial new law.
Equally, the famed fictional communications director might have ensured that the minister concerned could describe the new statute accurately when in a TV or radio studio, rather than getting it wrong, repeatedly, for three days.
This is Scotland though, where our legislators prefer drama to detail and, when it comes to the laws they make, care more about the pose than the product.
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STEPHEN LOW details how the Scottish Greens’ retreat from full opposition to the Bill gives the SNP the opportunity to revive this toxic legislation and push through privatisation under the cover of popular reforms
What the SNP-Green administration is asking politicians to do by voting on the new care service legislation, without being clear on what it even is, totally undermines Holyrood, writes STEPHEN LOW
What could have been easily explained away and apologised for has instead ballooned into an embarrassing cover-up scandal for the Scottish political scene, reports STEPHEN LOW
A focus on ‘service redesign' to solve issues in health and social care won’t address the core problems of understaffing and underfunding, warns STEPHEN LOW
