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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
Missing the party
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisele Pelicot, took part in a conversation with Afua Hirsch at London’s Royal Geographical Society. LYNNE WALSH reports
As the regime in Iran continues to face international pressure to reduce its nuclear programme, workers continue to struggle for wages they can live on despite harsh repression of trade unionists, reports JAMSHID AHMADI
JEAN SILVAN EVANS pays tribute to the social campaigner who sang the Welsh national anthem to Khrushchev in Moscow and became Rhondda’s communist mayor in 1979
As summer nears, TOM HARDY explains how unions are organising heat strikes and cool stations while calling for legal maximum workplace temperatures — because employers currently have no duty to protect workers from dangerous heat
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde sees Trump’s many disruptions as an opportunity to challenge the dollar’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ — but greater Euro assertiveness will also mean greater warmongering and militarism, warns NICK WRIGHT
KEITH BARLOW examines the 1975 referendum that saw Britain vote to stay in the EEC, revealing how Tony Benn understood that EU free-market principles and capital movement rules would tie the hands of any government putting people’s interests before corporate profits
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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