Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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Springburn’s silent Caley works: a testament to broken promises
As Starmer’s Labour peddles hollow ‘Great British’ rhetoric, MATT KERR traces the decline of Scotland’s railway industry and the true cost of profit-driven politics
GHOSTS OF INDUSTRY: The Caley, seen here in 1982
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
RALLIES, shootings, murder, secret services, a defiant candidate, and a whole new world of conspiracy theories … The presidential race in the US has turned into a farce more immediately deadly than I had imagined.
When I watched events unfold over the last few weeks, I was reminded of something my old cycling coach used to say when we talked politics on the way to races in my youth: “America’s a teenager, Matt. It’s the best and worst of it.”
It might have been a little bit of a patronising judgement on a country of quarter of a billion folk, but I’ve always thought there to be a grain of truth in it. The impetuousness, the certainty of cause, the quickness to fall in love or go to war.
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