RHUN AP IORWERTH outlines Plaid Cymru’s immediate and medium-term policy goals
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Glasgow is its people
Adrian Nairn
A row over Trotskyist factions exposes competing visions of organisation inside Your Party and the wider left, argues NICK WRIGHT
A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion
WHEN the Glasgow School of Art was destroyed by its second massive blaze in four years, Adrian Nairn heard a bang on the door. The emergency services told him and his elderly mother to pack up quick, for their Dalhousie Street flat was in the middle of the danger zone.
Now, six weeks after the inferno, the self-employed harp maker has yet to regain access to his home for even a few minutes. Last weekend he made headlines across the Scottish papers when he was — once again — threatened with arrest for attempting to push down a barricade.
When I caught up with Nairn yesterday, he argued that it was the police — and not him — on dubious legal ground. “We’re actually disputing the legality of the cordon,” he said.
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