A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
On the degradation of civic vision
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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ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion
Labour government must urgently start to implement the policies on which it got elected, or it will face curtains, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains
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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