General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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WHILE most have only had to endure one leaders’ debate so far, here in Scotland, we have had two already.
On Monday, four middle-aged men, representing Labour, Tories, SNP and the Liberal Democrats, took to television, feathers fully fluffed, to display their utter lack of ideas of even basic debating skills in a bizarre courtship ritual with the electorate that didn’t offer them so much as a twig.
I missed it, but came back to it later for the purposes of science and this paper. While it was going on, I was at St Luke’s to see a different kind of display.
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