Incredible Liteness
Isobel Lindsay looks at the possibility that a middle way option on the constitution could be presented – but argues that it simply leaves power and momentum in the wrong hands
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The Emerging Nation of England
Michael Gardiner looks at how England as a nation is being influenced and changed by the wider political and constitutional debates in the UK – and finds it populated by people who don’t live there...
Work is Killing Us
Andrew Watterson, Tommy Gorman and Jim McCourt look at the current political and ideological assault on health and safety at work and call for a fight-back against deregulation
Do. Not. Assume.
Despite what we see on CSI, DNA is not a foolproof tool for catching criminals and is open to abuse. So why, asks Bill Wilson, is there so little debate about a Europe-wide database?
Marx and the Nation
It is fashionable for people to say ‘Marx was right’ without fully understanding why. Andy Anderson argues that if we follow through the logic it is the nation – and for us Scotland – which has the ability to reform the system.
A New Job
In a short story, Tony Beekman imagines a future in which the response to the financial crash is not simply ever-more redistribution from the poor to the rich, but a radical change in society...
Campbell Christie: 1937 – 2011
A tribute to the late Campbell Christie
Reviews
A Rose Loupt Oot - Poetry and Song Celebrating the UCS Work-in and Downfall: the Tommy Sheridan Story
Kick Up the Tabloids
SALMOND HUNGER STRIKE MARATHON
Issue 66: Introducing the Jimmy Reid Foundation
Six writers explore an agenda for Scotland's new left wing think tank. Plus the Christie Commission, Murdoch in Scotland and 40 years after the UCS work-in