The NATO poll nonsense
Claiming the spurious poll on NATO membership tells us anything shows a complete disregard for the science of measuring opinion
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No accounting for finance hypocrisy
It’s not just that Sir Sandy Crombie is so utterly ridiculous in his defence of Creative Scotland, its that he reveals the utter hypocrisy at the heart of public police in Britain
The campaign against the welfare state – know your enemy
The campaign against the welfare state is now in full flow in Scotland. As we gear up to fight it, this is a simple guide to who is in the campaign, how its strategy works and the lexicon through which it is delivered.
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Stephen Maxwell’s ‘Arguing for Independence’ is launched
STEPHEN MAXWELL was active in the debate on Scotland’s political future for four decades before his death earlier this year. Published posthumously, this book represents a step change in the quality of public discourse on Scottish independence.… Read More »Stephen Maxwell’s ‘Arguing for Independence’ is launched
The Scottish Independence Podcast
News of a new podcast on independence
We’ve had the debate: universalism won
If Scottish Labour wants to open up a debate on universalism, I welcome it. It’ll be a brief debate and universalism will win. Again.
Is this the end of ‘Scottish’ Labour?
It is hard not to conclude that Johann Lamont has retreated into a fantasy land. Cancelling devolution, retreating into local government and turning to the right to align herself with London Labour might solve her internal squabbles. But what does any of this have to do with Scotland?
83 per cent of people say opinion polls are rubbish
The use of opinion polls by lobby groups is not to gather information but to create false opinions and use those to make politicians think the public is on the side of big money. We need to get wiser about opinion polls or we’re going to start falling for this stuff like they do in the US.
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This is neoliberal Britain. What option is there other than striking?
Iain MacWhirter’s arguments against industrial action by public sector workers appears to leave them with no option but to be preyed on by the CBI. Surely people must have a right to protect themselves? Surely we all have a responsibility to explain what people should do when we’re telling them what not to do?
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Two Important Media Initiatives
The new issue of the Scottish Left Review is now online. In it are two articles about two different media initiatives in Scotland. Here are the articles