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Gloag gets her gong
Scotland's richest woman receiving a New Year's Honour despite her dumping hundreds of workers on the dole is no surprise in this rotten system, writes CONRAD LANDIN
Ann Gloag
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
“THERE is nothin’ like a dame, nothin’ in the world,” or so they say.
In the British honours system, there is in fact something quite alike – a knight, the male equivalent of the Order of the British Empire’s top award.
So you might hail the damehood for Ann Gloag as a step forward for gender equality. After all, her brother Brian Souter, with whom she founded the transport giant Stagecoach, was controversially knighted in 2011.
Why the uproar back then? Souter is also known for having bankrolled the campaign to defend Section 28, the Tory law which prohibited the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, from repeal by New Labour.
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