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A tale of two cities: after fishing, after oil, what’s left for Aberdeen?
Rich natural resources built Aberdeen twice, but today it lies almost abandoned, as our city faces a third major transition — and the renewable energy future threatens same old exploitation, warns LARA FLANNERY
A general view of Aberdeen Harbour in Scotland, which has been identified in a study as the most affordable city for single people looking to buy a home in Britain, February 12, 2025
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
THERE are two Aberdeens. The first is that which breaks out into the wider British news with some frequency, the self-professed “oil capital of Europe,” the “silver city with the golden sands,” a strange international enclave of students and oil technicians, tucked away in a far corner of Scotland.
The other Aberdeen appears as any one of hundreds of similar towns and cities failed by the bourgeois state. It is an Aberdeen of crumbling tenements and neglected streets, of unemployment and unemployability, a city that has never felt like one with a future, even years before that of the oil industry was called into doubt.
Despite talk of Just Transitions and “no ban without a plan,” we must still work to build a better future both for Aberdeen, and for all Aberdonians.
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