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Kick Up The Tabloids
‘FOREIGN MAN NOT DEAD YET’ FURY
Comment
Scottish politics can be remarkable - and not in a good way. The Megrahi affair has not cast Scottish politics in a good light, but not for the usually trumpeted reason. Rather, it just shows that sometimes we just can’t see past ourselves to anything bigger.
Whores and virgins
Robin McAlpine looks at the political purpose of the redemption of bankers and demonisation of the public sector
It’s the rich who caused the pain
Joe Cox analyses the role that the super-rich have played in the economic crisis and argues for a High Pay Commission
Answering the queen
Mike Danson argues that we need to remember who failed to warn us of approaching financial meltdown and challenge the assumptions of conventional economics
Inconvenient truths for the neoliberals
Despite the rhetoric about the private sector being the only ‘wealth creators’ there is no evidential base for ‘crowding out’ argues Andy Cumbers
US swallowing their medicine
Why must the public sector pick up the private sector’s mess asks Dave Watson?
For sale?
Henry McCubbin looks back at the expenses scandal and at the more important issue of Ministers for sale
Occupation or strike?
Gregor Gall examines the effectiveness of different tactics used by workers to resist redundancy