The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY

TODAY ScotRail will introduce its “Happy Trains” between Edinburgh and Glasgow — given this nauseating name because of the modified frontage of the Class 365 stock, which resembles a smiley face.
These are trains built in the mid-1990s transferred from the ailing Govia Thameslink Railway, which has led some to accuse ScotRail of “spin” for boasting of the improvements they will bring.
The reality, however, is that as with most trains commissioned before privatisation, they are far superior to the carriages commissioned now.

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