End of the Kingdom
Paul Leinster argues that while removing the royal family would be no panacea to the UK’s problems it could at least go some way to inspiring a new sense of possibility, equality and pride in the nation
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Vladimir McTavish’s KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Head of State Special - with exclusive results of our opinion poll...
The Constitutional Debate: Monarchy
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 Silent Crisis
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.
Rise of the Legal Loan Sharks
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.
Prozac Nationalism
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
Iran: Editing Out the Doubts
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
Money for Nothing isn’t Wealth
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
Reviews of Class Struggle - film from the Clyde and Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Political Biography
Issue 69: Why you just might regret cutting the red tape
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