Savage Wars of Peace
Chris Harvie offers a thoughtful take on a future foreign policy for Scotland.
Scottish Policy
Labour can’t be radical by default
Some in the Labour Party may think that the way the constitutional debate has exposed a clear vacuum in the SNP’s vision of what it is for has helped redefine the Labour Party by default. It hasn’t, and the really difficult questions for the Scottish Labour Party lie ahead. One more poll suggests they haven’t yet offered any compelling answers.
The truth about social conservatives: politically they don’t matter
Putting bishops on your front page and then believing they are important because they are on your front page is simple a delusion of the media. Over and over ‘culture wars’ turn out to be no such thing as Scotland adapts quickly and happily to liberal progress. Why do commentators still predict armageddon for liberal politicians?
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Why is the SNP rubbing the left’s nose in it?
The right-wing drift of the SNP is turning into a march. The same is true of the left whose drift away from the Party is accelerating. Has the SNP left just resigned itself to becoming like the Westminster Labour Left? Is there now no challenge to the creation of New SNP?
Policing is for the elite: that is the order to be kept
The idea that anyone in Britain could talk about a ‘people’s police force’ is laughable. In fact we have elite policing maintaining order for corporations. People are just collateral damage.
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Don’t vote against NATO. Vote for something better.
So the motion to the SNP conference calling for a reversal in NATO policy has been made public. Those who have moved it have built principle into the heart of it. All the rest of the SNP has to do is build in a little more principle.
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Our universities cannot be run like banks
SCOTLAND’S seats of learning are too important to be left in the hands of managers so let’s give academic staff and students a chance to run them. Scotsman article from yesterday.
Dumbers. Like numbers but based on our inability to understand them.
You might be able to find the Higgs Boson using pure mathematics but you’re not going to find a healthy economy. So how about focussing on a credible plan rather than arithmetical parlour games.
Read More »Dumbers. Like numbers but based on our inability to understand them.
Who Needs Democracy When You’ve Got Money?
As the networks of corporate influence have incessantly increased in Scotland, the blurring and merger of commercial and political interests have followed. A network of civil servants, lobbyists, think tanks, political groups and the media are now taking the lead in setting the public agenda. In private. This article is from the new issue of Scottish Left Review which is online now.
How finance made us all livestock
How Big Finance came to believe that we are all livestock for munching on – a very slightly longer version of Scotsman article