Don’t allow the drift towards police privatisation
The move towards a single police force for Scotland will only make it easier for private cartels to try and start breaking up a public police force so police services can be hived-off for profit
Morag Findlay
A retail-led recovery? Get back to school. Primary school.
The gnashing of teeth over the failure of a retail-led economic recovery is the sound of the old order paralysed in a theoretical world where nothing works any more. Why is anyone still listening?
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Read this – so you know why the competitiveness stuff is wrong
It won’t take you long to skim this article but after you do you will be in a much better position to argue against George Osborne and the cut-business-tax-and-deregulate gang
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A blood-soaked knife, gently wrapped in a fairytale
Rather than reinforcing the same-old lies from the military and the state, now would be a good time for the British media to demonstrate some of the freedom over which it has been shedding crocodile tears at the Levenson Inquiry
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The sickening choreography of brutality
Perhaps military spin makes us feel slightly less bad about military atrocity. But that makes us more complicit, not ‘more innocent’.
Cable: policy Tourette’s or a hostage?
Are all Vince Cable’s ideas stupid? If not, why does he keep withdrawing them?
Whisper it; tax is good for us all
The horse-trading over tax at Westminster shows that as a political culture we have simply failed to understand what tax is for – or to celebrate it as we should
Blair and Brown go on trial today. I wish.
On the day when the former PM of Iceland goes on trial for his part in the banking crisis, the rest of us can only look on and wish our politicians were accountable too
Nine out of ten toddlers demand more chocolate
The Institute of Directors has informed the world yet again that its members are demanding everything they want. Or else.
Great to hear the talk but ‘left’ means something
We have suddenly seen a resurgence in political attacks on the ‘right’ in Scottish politics. Just as long as everyone remembers its a political philosophy and not a photo op.
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