1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
A Guid New Year to Ane An A? Only if we fight for it
As polls show Scottish Labour’s support crumbling and Reform rising even among independence supporters, an urgent need emerges for an alternative based on public investment paid for by radical progressive taxation, argues VINCE MILLS
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during First Minister's Questions in the Main Chamber at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 19, 2024
Labour’s cynical recruitment drive normalises militarism, diverts attention from youth unemployment and public service cuts, and seeks to build consent for an increasingly aggressive defence agenda, argues GEORGINA ANDREWS
Why is welfare in its limited sense attacked when aimed at the poor? asks poignantly PAUL DONOVAN
Despite systemic racism and far-right hostility, Britain’s migrant and black communities continue to contribute, inspire, and resist. Through education, art, and intergenerational solidarity, the next generation can help shape a future rooted in justice, understanding, and hope, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
NICHOLAS MWANGI highlights a historic turning point in Sahelian sovereignty, as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger bolstered their regional security through a unified military force
As unemployment rises and living standards fall, May’s economic announcement risks locking Britain into further decline rather than charting a new course, warns JON TRICKETT MP
IF I may adapt that old expression used of the US economy, it seems that if leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer sneezes, Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, gets a good deal worse than a bad cold.
Starmer’s December Ipsos poll ratings show only 27 per cent of respondents were satisfied with his performance, with 61 per cent dissatisfied. This comes on the back of a slew of controversial policy decisions and, more importantly, an economy that is showing little sign of the growth Starmer promised, even if it is very early days of the promised infrastructural projects.
The success of Bidenomics in generating growth in the US was not enough to save the Democrats in the November elections, given the corrosive effect of inflation — annualised inflation rates were 5.4 per cent under Joe Biden as opposed to 1.9 per cent under Donald Trump.
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Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
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Should Reform gain a toe-hold in Scottish political life, the tectonic plates will have shifted an increment closer to the abyss, writes MIKE COWLEY