ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
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There is little benefit coming to Scotland or the wider UK from projects like Rosebank or Jackdaw – or indeed renewables – as profits are siphoned out of the country by foreign companies, writes PAULINE BRYAN
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
THE last time there was a Labour government in Westminster and an SNP government in Holyrood was 18 years ago. That was in the middle of a financial crisis and only lasted two years. 2010 was the first time that a Scottish government had to deal with a Tory UK government.
Now there is a Labour government back in Westminster, is there clear red water between Labour and the SNP?
On January 30 the Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled that the consent that had been given for new Scottish oil and gas fields, Rosebank and Jackdaw, was unlawful and that their owners must seek fresh approval from the UK government before production could begin.
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