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
Scotland must use its powers to act on rip-off rents
Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba says that the Scottish Parliament must use its powers to deliver transformative change, starting with a rent freeze for tenants
A row of letting agent signs placed outside houses
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
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
IN THE midst of a cost-of-living emergency, workers are increasingly looking to the Scottish government to use the significant powers available to it to deliver urgent support.
In recent weeks, I have been calling on the Scottish government to use its powers to introduce an emergency rent freeze to support tenants in the private rented sector.
Bringing in a rent freeze, to prevent landlords continuing to impose above-inflation rent hikes on cash strapped tenants, is something which can and must be delivered in Scotland.
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