RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
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
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
Scotland’s rapidly growing support for Reform UK is the result of a profound crisis of trust in mainstream politics — one that progressives share, and must harness, writes DEREK THOMSON
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS
The devastating impact of austerity has left Scotland’s education system on its knees, argues ANDREA BRADLEY, urging politicians to show courage by increasing wealth taxation to fund our schools properly
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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