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‘I predict a riot?’
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT is unconvinced by right-wing scaremongering regarding the inevitability of a 'Brexit betrayal' rampage
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
ACCORDING to a recent front page of Rupert Murdoch’s Times (not a source one should take too seriously) a “senior Cabinet minister” has claimed that there will be civil unrest and riots similar to the gilets jaunes movement in France (whose protests continue largely unreported in Britain) if Brexit doesn’t happen on October 31.
The anonymous source was backed up on a BBC politics programme by right-wing blogger Brendan O’Neill, who not only predicted riots but argued that they should take place.
Predicting riots is not such a simple matter, however.
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