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Scotland has a government more interested in performance than policy
STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: New SNP leader Humza Yousaf
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader.
That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment.
Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland.
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