Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
IT WAS a message to warm the heart — a daughter thanking the care worker who took the time to dance with her dementia-suffering dad at the end of each home visit.
Little did she realise that this “thanks” also holds the key to breaking our collective obsession with “growth-based” economics.
Conventional economics describes acts of human kindness in entirely pejorative terms.
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
Wales is second from the bottom in terms of cultural services in the EU. HELEDD FYCHAN believes that needs to change if the country is to prosper
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right



