ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
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While revisiting his old postie haunts of Harhill, MATT KERR is reminded that Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan did build, post-WWII, something that has stood the test of time. Very little else has, if we are honest
STOOD THE TEST OF TIME: Semi-detached council houses on Fillingfir Drive, Moor Grange, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
Commiserations if you failed this year, MAT COWARD offers six points which, if followed religiously, will ensure you succeed next year
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
MAYBE the events of the last fortnight in Scottish politics may seem like they have proven Harold Wilson’s adage that “a week is a long time in politics” true, maybe not.
One thing is for certain, if a week is a long time in politics, 25 years seems like an eternity.
Around a quarter of a century ago, I was finding my feet as a postie in Govan. Like all the newbies before me, I spent the first few months on walks that the old hands avoided; four-storey tenements, the mankiest closes, or regularly deluged with bulk mailings.
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