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

IN THE days preceding Jeremy Corbyn’s Coventry speech on Labour’s relationship to the EU, the Labour leader could have been forgiven for feeling that he was being surrounded.
On one side were the anti-Brexiteers, from the right of the Labour Party marching under the banner of Progress, arguing that an imagined economic catastrophe can only be avoided, at the very least, by remaining in the single market and the customs union (note the use of the definite article).
More than 80 notables in the Labour Party had signed a joint letter to the Observer the day before the speech, urging Corbyn to support Britain’s continued membership of the single market.

That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS


