Simon Hannah A Party with Socialists in it – a history of the Labour Left, Pluto, 2018, £12.99, 9780745337470 Reviewed by Dave Sherry. Popular among younger voters and older Labour stalwarts alike, Jeremy Corbyn has proved hugely controversial and threatening to both the British establishment and Labour’s Blairite faction. Together they are ganging up on […]
Lesley Riddoch, Blossom – what Scotland needs to flourish (Post Indyref Post EUref edition), 2018, Luath, £11.99, 1912147521 Reviewed by Stephen Smellie. First published in 2013 amidst the independence referendum campaign, Blossom is a mixture of journalism and an optimistic vision that Scotland could be a much better place if the kind of efforts reported […]
Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays), Haymarket Books, £11.99, 978-1-60846-329-9 Around the corner from where I sit in Edinburgh, a number of shop fronts are covered in chipboard. Stuck to those boards are posters displaying the slogan save leith walk, a protest against an application from Drum Property Group […]
The start of September has traditionally signalled the end of the ‘Silly Season’. Nobody appears to have told Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt or Phillip Hammond about this though. May’s embarrassing trip to Africa is but the latest in a series of desperate moves to try to re-position the Britain on the world stage post-Brexit. The […]
Issue 106 now appears online and if you enjoy reading its features, articles and reviews please help to sustain our independent voice by taking out a subscription - just click on the 'Join Us' button above. Issue 106 highlights the publication of and fall out from, the ‘Sustainable Growth’ report by Andrew Wilson. Look out for our new website, currently under development.
Publication of the ‘Sustainable Growth’ report has created an almighty right-left chasm within the independence movement.
Defining a social democratic party, its ideology, purpose and processes.
Defining neo-liberalism.
Tommy Sheppard offers critical support to the Growth Commission report.
Carolyn Leckie says the report is like the curate’s egg, with good and bad parts, but can be built upon.