In every SLR between now and the referendum we’ll pick a policy issue and ask four writers from across the spectrum of constitutional opinion to argue the pros and cons of independence. In this issue we look at Monarchy.
The Jimmy Reid Foundation launched its second report during the local elections (www.reidfoundation.org/library) calling for major reform of local democracy. But Robin McAlpine explains why local democracy is just the start.
Pay day loan companies may advertise themselves as a social service but they are quite the opposite, argues Neil Findlay. It is time that people were offered a real alternative to this legalised loan-sharking.
The SNP’s encouragement of the Pharmaceutical industry’s control over mental illness in Scotland might seem to offer economic hope but it is harming our wellbeing, argues Siobhan Tolland
Bill Wilson looks at the western media reporting of Iran’s development of nuclear technology and finds once again that taking ‘maybes’ as facts and then editing out the ‘maybes’ is ratcheting up the case for war
Andy Anderson concludes his series on economic theory by pointing out that Marx’s prediction that demanding ever-greater profit from the same resources would create constant economic crises has proved true. But what next?
Reviews of Class Struggle - film from the Clyde and Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Political Biography
Four writers consider regulation, deregulation and the myth of red tape. Plus the state of the trade unions and the launch of the Constitution Page
If no-one will explain what regulation means and no-one will stand up and make a real case in its favour, the Daily Mail will continue to make the running
For hundreds of years ‘red tape’ was shorthand for the frustration an individual faces when dealing with institutional bureaucracy. Robin McAlpine explains how it turned into a right-wing ideology.