Professor Gregor Gall

FOR many years, there has been a pledge from successive SNP Scottish governments – until recently also assisted by the Scottish Greens​ – to completely reform, if not always quite abolish, the system of local taxation on domestic or residential property in Scotland called the Council Tax ...

LABOUR have at least kept one pledge – but only just.

THE Labour Government has had the shortest political “honeymoon” anyone can remember. The reasons for this are well known and the evidence is clear from polling on the party and its leader.

SIR Keir Starmer’s entry into 10 Downing Street has now been widely described as having been achieved via a “loveless landslide”.

TWO years ago, the so-called summer of solidarity of widespread strikes was in full swing as the cost of living crisis bit...

WHEN Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was elected prime minister on May 1, 1997, with a 179 majority, the sense from many on the progressive left back then was that “there’s nothing he can’t do” with that advantage ...

TWO years ago, we were in the midst of the first flushes of the so-called “summer of solidarity”. It turned out to be the biggest uptick in strike activity in some 40 years. Since June 2022, some 5.4 million days have not been worked due to striking.

WITHIN the first week of the General Election campaign, Keir Starmer told us he was a socialist. Meanwhile, he continued his purge of socialist and left-wing parliamentary candidates from his party ...

THE proportion of workers who were trade union members – called union density – in the UK rose in 2023 to 22.4%, up from 22.2% in 2022.

WIDESPREAD protests by farmers in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain since the end of last year over prices, costs and incomes have shown how direct action can pay dividends.