ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
THE Scottish Labour Party leadership may, in time, find that John McDonnell did them a favour when he said Labour would allow a second referendum on Scottish independence, if, after sufficient time, the Scottish people were not persuaded that Scotland was flourishing under a Labour government.
It is hardly surprising that they will not be thanking the shadow chancellor right now. His comments provoked a seemingly endless torrent of bad press as a result of the reckless and self-indulgent comments by Ian Murray MP and his gaggle of political familiars in the Scottish Labour parliamentary group.
As Stephen Low pointed out in a recent Morning Star, we were treated to the usual poisonous invocations drawn from the great cauldron of right wing potions, cackled in the eager ears of the harbingers of doom for socialism, otherwise known as the Scottish media.
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VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative



