by The Editor | May 29, 2017 | Politics
The question asked shouldn’t ever have been how will Labour fund their costed manifesto. We have permitted this expedient Conservative diversion for long enough. It should have been exposed for what it is when George Osborne was rebuked for lying about Labour’s...
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 | 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...
by The Editor | May 19, 2017 | Politics
On the day that newly elected Labour councillors in Aberdeen and in other parts of the country jumped ship to support the Tories, I met Andrew Bustard online. He’s the future of the revolution, but he’s still on the wrong side. Thanks to my recent trip into the online...