The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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In defence of the Star’s Scotland coverage
While acknowledging that there is always room for improvement CONRAD LANDIN points to the variety of views represented in the newspaper in recent months
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As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
TWO letters published in the Star in recent weeks — from Alastair McLeish and the Scottish Socialist Party’s Ken Ferguson — have criticised the “relentless anti-SNP tone” (Ferguson’s words) of the paper’s Scottish coverage.
I’m always happy to take on board suggestions as to how we can improve and broaden content relating to Scotland.
Ferguson’s suggestion that we give more space to discussion of a Scottish currency is one I will look to take up.
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