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IT SOMETIME SEEMS it is the destiny of the Labour party to trail behind the Conservatives on economic thought and practice.In a new and influential industrial history of the 20th...

I HAVE WRITTEN regularly about the impact of covid-19 on domestic inequalities. I have also noted the contrast between the UK and the EU. But the wider international impacts are...

Glasgow Disability Alliance has released its manifesto calling for Scotland’s political parties to urgently address disabled people’s rights and experiences of inequality. “Poverty, cuts to vital services, spiralling unemployment and...

THE CATALAN ELECTIONS (Sunday 14 February) recorded strong gains for the pro-independence movement, albeit on a low, pandemic-impacted turnout. The Republican Left (Esquerra Republicana) inched ahead of Junts Per Catalunya,...

“YOU KNOW WHAT some people call us – the Nasty Party,” said Theresa May, almost two decades ago, but the quote stuck. The Conservative Party has undergone regular image makeovers...

NICOLA STURGEON FACES two thorny problems that will continue to cast doubt on her leadership. One is the ongoing inquiry into her Government’s handling of the Salmond affair; the other...

The Unsuitable Accommodation Order, which was due to be extended to all homeless people in order to prevent them being housed in unsuitable temporary accommodation for longer than a week,...

SCOTLAND’S newspaper industry is in crisis. What else is new? The crisis was not brought about by Covid, though it was exacerbated by it. Over the course of the pandemic,...

PRO-INDEPENDENCE PARTIES have increased their majority in the Catalan regional elections. With 99 percent of votes counted, the result, slightly against predictions in the Scottish press, sees a tie in seats...

I AM THIRTY-SIX in March, old enough that I have been campaigning against racism for more than half my life. Yet I am worried about the increasingly censorious atmosphere surrounding...