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Toxic agents and Tory hypocrisy
NICK WRIGHT examines some of the questions and motives which linger over the poisoning last week of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal
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
IT is entirely possible that the substance that felled the MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter originated not just eight miles away in Britain’s chemical and biological production facility at Porton Down but in some comparable facility in either the Russian Federation or one of the former Soviet republics.
It is also entirely possible that some element in the corrupt klepto-capitalist ruling elite of the Russian state, either with official sanction or without, is responsible for the outrage.
Decades have passed since the counter-revolution in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the socialist basis of its economy was dismantled.
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