By James Meek, Verso Books, 2014, pp229, £12.99 Book Review by Andrew Noble Within living memory we British thought it possible that our seemingly mature democracy entailed of its nature open mindedness. That is ideas, especially our crucial economic ones, were inherently pragmatic in that they were open to constant scrutiny as to what they […]
Election analysis by YouGov and New York Times THE elderly did not rob the young of an independent Scotland, according to YouGov’s final poll of how Scotland voted in the independence referendum. Their study of 3,188 voters showed that 51 per cent of those aged between 16 and 24 voted ‘No’. It also revealed that […]
by VLADIMIR McTAVISH So the dream is over for the time being, at least. I sincerely believed that I would wake up on the morning of 19 September to find out I no longer lived in the same country as Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnston and Eddie Izzard. But I still do, and it’s […]
Has a D Notice been served advising newspaper publishers to suppress facts for the sake of public order? Have Scotland’s commentators been hypnotised? Are organised gangs intimidating newsagents to prevent them from selling any publication which might reveal the truth? Surely there must be some explanation? It is now almost a month since the Scottish […]
Labour, SNP, Lib Dems, Greens, SLP – assessed Labour’s Last Chance Saloon – Bob Thomson is a former Chairman and Treasurer of the Scottish Labour Party Most political commentators don’t seem to have appreciated the scale and significance of New Labour’s losses on May Day. Labour received its lowest vote since 1931, with 400,000 less […]
Robin McAlpine argues that the next four years will be crucial in determining whether the future of Scotland is shaped by the right or the left The more thoughtful Scottish politicians always recognised that devolution wasn’t an event, it was a process. If there was anyone left who doubted that, May 1 2003 should have […]
Margaret Lynch argues that if the world is to be spared being bullied into submission by America, we have to reach out to the people of America Every now and then it is good to stand back and try to think outside your normal box. To explore an issue, to question and challenge from vantage […]
Mike Small reviews Robin Ramsay’s The Rise of New Labour (Pocket Essentials) “I have taken from my party everything they thought they believed in. What keeps it together is success and power.” Tony Blair, as quoted by Andrew Rawnsley in Servants of the People “The whole noble array of barristers, solicitors, accountants, surveyors, agents, and […]
In this edition we review some of the information that has swerved round the official propagandist media and appeared on the net – sometimes for the first time and sometimes digging up the revolting backgrounds of Blair’s new fundamentalist friends in the States. We also expose how in these times of digital imaging the camera […]
Margo Goes to Holyrood In politics it seems that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. A revealing Scottish Television documentary to be screened this month follows Margo MacDonald on the campaign trail. The film shows Margo urging voters to cast their vote for just about anybody and any party. Except the SNP. Among […]