by The Editor | May 28, 2017 | Politics
According to former IRA activist Danny Morrison, senior Tories secretly met IRA leaders in 1977 – when the terrorist organisation was at the height of its bombing campaign: Danny Morrison is famous for coining the phrase ‘Armalite and ballot box‘ to describe the...
by The Editor | May 28, 2017 | Politics
Scottish Labour were always there when I was growing up. In our values, visually too. On lampposts, on bridges, graffiti on the roads saying “Vote Labour”. These graffiti ‘Artists’ were petty criminals but they still had socialist values up here. It was a good time to...
by The Editor | May 28, 2017 | Health & Education
Being in hospital for a week offered me a unique opportunity to see for myself how our NHS in Scotland really works. For me it was more of a listening exercise due to being heavily sedated most of the time. By that I mean no long meaningful discussions took place...
by The Editor | May 28, 2017 | Politics
The 94 year old writer and activist Harry Leslie Smith wrote in his book Harry’s Last Stand: how the world my generation built is falling apart and what we can do to save it (published by Icon Books Ltd in 2014): Many people who are younger than me presume...
by The Editor | May 27, 2017 | Politics
Kezia tells voters to vote Conservative. What’s left of her party in Scotland looks on in disbelief, absorbing the shock of this last betrayal. Independence supporters see and hear the last confirmation of what they always knew. It’s political suicide. There simply is...
