With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass

IT SEEMS for everyone outside of Scotland, the country still appears to be some form of progressive utopia that is putting England’s political leaders to shame. For all of us living in Scotland, we wish the utopia were true.
A blog posted by Novara Media, proclaiming Scotland to have better public services and lower council tax, was rightly met with amusement across the Scottish left.
It came only a week after the Scottish government published its Spending Review which set out plans to cut anywhere between 17,000 and 40,000 public-sector jobs over the next three years, with local councils again set to bear the brunt of the cuts.

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON


