IT’S the economy, stupid. It’s an issue that consistently ranks among the most important to voters in elections all over the world
WE’RE now just one week away from millions of Americans going to the polls to vote in one of the most important – and depressing – elections of all time.
THIS year’s Scottish Budget will be unlike any other in the past decade. Budgets since 2021 have been passed by the majority SNP/Green government, with concessions and deals struck between the two parties behind closed doors, while every Budget in the 2016-21 parliamentary session relied on year-by-year arrangements between the SNP and the Greens, and occasionally also the Liberal Democrats.
I WAS fortunate enough to take a short break to Berlin last week. I walked through the streets of a city so rich with history – full of memorials and reminders of the horrors and atrocities of genocide and fascism.
AS a young person, I rarely see myself represented in the media. Even less so as a young woman, and unquestionably rarely as a young socialist woman.
THERE’S a good chance that a decision will finally be made this week as to whether or not the 2026 Commonwealth Games will go ahead in Glasgow, with a meeting taking place yesterday between the Scottish Government and the original hosts, Commonwealth Games Australia ...
THERE’S no denying that Scotland’s public finances are in perhaps the most challenging state in the entire devolution era.
THE SNP seem to be addicted to crisis and scandal at this point. There’s no other explanation for John Swinney sending Angus Robertson to meet Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK, Daniela Grudsky ...
MISINFORMATION is rife in this modern world and it’s only getting worse. In the past week we’ve seen two major news stories in which misinformation has played a key role.
PRIDE is a protest. It’s about fighting for the rights of those marginalised because of who we are and who we love, and at a time when queer rights, and trans rights in particular, have been under attack, it continues to be of vital importance ...
