ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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Recent events have shown the best and the worst of Scottish politics
The wider political climate and abandonment, until recently, of a class-based analysis, has left baseless conspiracy theories unchallenged
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In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
LAST week’s equal pay strikes showed the best of Scottish politics — working class women speaking for themselves and many of their male colleagues at Glasgow City Council standing in solidarity and refusing to cross picket lines.
One sickening reaction to the dispute, however, has shown the very worst.
This came from nationalist blogger Gareth Wardell, who writes and tweets under the pseudonym “Grouse Beater.” He described GMB Scotland official Rhea Wolfson, who is Jewish, as deploying “fascist demagoguery” in her stewardship of the strike.
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