While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
EVERY macho motoring correspondent, from jingoistic Jeremy Clarkson upward, is saying a fond farewell to the Land Rover Defender, production of which ended on Friday.
Indian owners Tata Motors had been threatening the end of the traditional Land Rover for many months but now production has finally stopped.
Of course I’m sorry about any potential loss of jobs at Land Rover’s Solihull plant, indeed more sorry it would seem than Tata, which is already hinting that some of the replacement vehicle production will move to one of two new Land Rover factories one in Puna, India, the other in Nitra, western Slovakia.
MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
After battling hills, rain and injury in a three-day cycle ride ending at the CWU conference, MATT KERR reflects on why class unity remains the answer to injustice
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY



