SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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Meanwhile in Scotland … it’s still 2015
The general election was deja vu all over again north of the border, writes STEPHEN LOW
SNP candidates and supporters celebrate at the end of the night at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
FOR Scottish Labour activists there was a hideous sense of deja vu as we watched the SNP tide flood across the country.
It was 2015 all over again — Labour having just a single seat and the people of East Dunbartonshire returning Jo Swinson to the private sector again.
2015 — Jo Swinson apart — wasn’t any fun either. That’s not to say the situation is lacking in irony. Indeed, it abounds with it.
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