Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Scottish council elections – a bad night for us all
		STEPHEN LOW sizes up last Thursday’s election results north of the border – and warns that local democracy and municipal services are in need of defending
	ALL OF the parties came out of the council elections in Scotland with something to smile about — yes, even the Tories.
Having a very bad night indeed, though, was whole idea of local government. So the losers on Thursday were pretty much all of us.
The contest to run Scotland’s councils might be over, but the fight to defend local government really needs to get started.
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