A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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Any National Care Service must be paid for with taxes
Scotland is looking at a groundbreaking extension of social provision — or is it? Unless this project is publicly funded and run, with the private equity firms and hedge funds kept out, it will be a step sideways at best, argues BRENDA AITCHISON
Scottish unions have demanded Nicola Sturgeon remove private finance from any proposed national care service
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
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
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
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
OH, isn’t it surprising how quickly the ruling elites forget about the challenges we have faced over the past two years? I am of course being sarcastic; it comes as no surprise at all.
While we are still in a pandemic, so many politicians and business leaders seem to want to gloss over the ongoing challenges. If we add to this the perfect storms of increased fuel costs, tax rises and record levels of inflation, it is not a great start to the new year for so many households across the country.
This is not the case for the elite few who have gained so much during the global pandemic. The recently published Oxfam report Inequality Kills makes for grim reading.
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