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Gloag gets her gong
Scotland's richest woman receiving a New Year's Honour despite her dumping hundreds of workers on the dole is no surprise in this rotten system, writes CONRAD LANDIN
Ann Gloag
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
“THERE is nothin’ like a dame, nothin’ in the world,” or so they say.
In the British honours system, there is in fact something quite alike – a knight, the male equivalent of the Order of the British Empire’s top award.
So you might hail the damehood for Ann Gloag as a step forward for gender equality. After all, her brother Brian Souter, with whom she founded the transport giant Stagecoach, was controversially knighted in 2011.
Why the uproar back then? Souter is also known for having bankrolled the campaign to defend Section 28, the Tory law which prohibited the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, from repeal by New Labour.
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