The British economy is failing to deliver for ordinary people. With the upcoming Spending Review, Labour has the opportunity to chart a different course – but will it do so, asks JON TRICKETT MP
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MATT KERR reflects on the unveiling of Mick McGahey’s bust in Holyrood, where the former NUM president who demanded a workers’ parliament with ‘internationalist horizons’ now watches over a parliament where Reform UK are advancing rapidly
Editor BEN CHACKO explains why next weekend’s Morning Star conference is not to be missed
Labour’s austerity package, targeted at disabled people and the most vulnerable in our society, stands to drive over 150,000 children into poverty and millions of adults deeper into hardship, warns Dr DYLAN MURPHY
BRIAN LEISHMAN on how the government’s refusal to release a pro-privatisation report on prison maintenance is fuelling fears of a cover-up
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how six MPs enjoyed £400-£600 hospitality at Ditchley Park for Google’s ‘AI parliamentary scheme’ — supposedly to develop ‘effective scrutiny’ of artificial intelligence, but actually funded by the increasingly unsavoury tech giant itself
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisele Pelicot, took part in a conversation with Afua Hirsch at London’s Royal Geographical Society. LYNNE WALSH reports
IT’S Carnival Day in Govanhill tomorrow, which means parades, politics and even a Roma ceilidh. Perhaps even Southside MSP Nicola Sturgeon will make an appearance.
As Neil Findlay noted in his Star column this week, it would be more than Springburn MSP Bob Doris managed for the closure rally at the Caley railway works last month.
Sign of the times
TALKING of Govanhill, they don’t mince their words round there. The A-frame board on one of my favourite local cafes reads: “BORIS JOHNSON IS A RACIST, ISLAMOPHOBIC, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC JOBBY.” Come on, tell us what you really think!
Career opportunities
“I DON'T know why people are surprised that a new PM is bringing in like-minded journalists as advisers — all PMs do this,” opined the i’s policy editor Jane Merrick the other day, following Boris Johnson’s eyebrow-raising appointments at Downing Street.
“Johnson is hardly going to hire someone from the Morning Star is he?”
Don’t make assumptions, Jane. It’s only out of loyalty to Landin in Scotland readers that I respectfully declined the offer.
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