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With the Scottish government’s Budget day coming up in early December, BRENDA AITCHISON presses for public services to be properly funded at last after years of neglect and austerity
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ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
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
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
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
IT IS THIS time of the year again when every shop has gone early for Black Friday. You can’t go anywhere without seeing Christmas lights, markets and the hearing the usual Christmas tunes. Every retailer is urging us to spend, spend, spend but this year the John Lewis advert is urging us to spend wisely and invest in something that will stand the test of time.
On December 4 the Scottish government will present its Budget for the forthcoming year, and 32 local authorities setting their budgets in the new year. Surely this is the time to spend wisely to invest in the future of Scotland?
The importance of getting public services properly funded is absolutely key if we are to thrive across Scotland.
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