SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
A COUPLE of months into the pandemic there appeared to be a whole new mood transferring from the people to Parliament.
I tried to capture it in a speech to the Holyrood chamber in May 2020 where I spoke of a “popular mood for change.”
It was a strong conviction that there could be no going back to the way things were. No return to homelessness and rough sleeping and no return to the unequal society and the imbalanced economy.
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership



