ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
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Crumbs off the table
Attempts at haggling to win a deal over the Scottish Budget still leave public services short-changed, writes MATT KERR
ET OFF LIGHTLY: Finance Secretary Shona Robison announcing the draft Budget for 2025-26 to MSPs at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
Commiserations if you failed this year, MAT COWARD offers six points which, if followed religiously, will ensure you succeed next year
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
UNLESS you would like to live forever in a cave in some far-off wilderness, never seeing a soul or even reading this paper, we negotiate.
Even our interactions with other species are a negotiation of sorts, or at least they were at the point of domestication, with the notable exception of cats of course — they appear to dictate terms.
Part of my own domestication involved banding together with my sister to negotiate our pocket money from the Old Man. Having spent his working day negotiating, you’d have thought he just couldn’t be bothered — that was certainly our calculation.
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