GOVERNMENT Budgets are notorious for being accompanied by smoke and mirrors, a fog of misleading headlines and flashing lights to fool us into thinking things are about to get better ...
AS you read this, most Westminster Labour MPs are voting to endorse plans by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rob the Winter Fuel Payment from about 10 million pensioners, just as energy bills rise by 10%, and while the UK “boasts” the poorest state pensions in Europe.
DISPLAYS of “people power” on numerous large anti-racist demos have chased the far-right race rioters off the streets, at least temporarily.
POVERTY and inequality scar the face of Scotland. These festering sores are set to spread despite the looming eviction of the poisonous Tory government ...
THINK about the song Imagine, as John Lennon might have written it today: Imagine no austerity, no cuts or closures too.
