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Hospitality workers put politicians to shame
As the mainstream party leaders trade forgettable platitudes, fired-up hospitality workers in Glasgow raised vital funds for Palestinian medics — and are building a workers’ co-op, reports MATT KERR
A benefit gig for Palestine at the 13th note, Glasgow

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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