There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Can the STUC end the Scottish political stalemate?
VINCE MILLS says the trade unions should step into the breach when it comes to fresh constitutional thinking
BETTER VISION: Roz Foyer from the STUC joins union members outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh at the Scotland Demands Better rally, organised by the STUC, outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh on December 8 2022
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
NEXT year, 2024, will see the tenth anniversary of the referendum on independence for Scotland. Since that year, the SNP has consolidated its position as the dominant party in Scottish politics, but very much as a centrist party of neoliberalism.
And if, as Nicola Sturgeon claims, the Tories believe that creating a constitutional crisis on the back of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), will undermine support for the SNP and independence, they are going to be disappointed.
Without for a moment reducing the importance of the GRA both for its supporters or its critics, it is not a burning issue either in the lives of most Scots or in shaping their political allegiances.
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That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS
