The SNP’s Gay Marriage Crisis
Last month, New York became the latest state in the US to introduce marriage equality. Same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 countries around the world, with a further two dozen jurisdictions permitting...
View ArticleLGBT History Month: A Look Back to Look Forward
As we enter LGBT History month the movement to secure rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans peoples has made a plethora of political gains over the many years people have been fighting for equal...
View ArticleThe rise of the Wonga loan
Recession and economic crisis continues to relentlessly bear down on millions of people across the UK. With real term wages either stagnating or declining and the average full-time working week already...
View ArticleDid Thatcher’s economics save the country?
The policies of Thatcher are often praised for ‘saving’ the British economy, and that despite the harsh (read brutal) tactics implemented she turned the country round into a service-sector powerhouse...
View ArticleThe Money Behind the Referendum
Earlier this month the two official campaigns in the Scottish independence referendum declared their list of donors to date. Yes Scotland and Better Together have amassed their war chests in...
View ArticleWill Scotland leave England to generations of Tory rule?
A double blow is heading Scotland’s way if the country votes for independence, according to Scottish Labour’s deputy leader. In an article in the Independent last Monday, Anas Sarwar writes that by...
View ArticlePassing of a political hero
Tony Benn, grandfather of the British Left, has passed away. To so many he departed a fighter, a radical, a socialist, a man of unyielding principle. Yesterday I lost my political hero. So rarely does...
View ArticleFive things we learned from the leaders’ debate
Last night saw First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together director Alistair Darling take to the TV cameras for the first of the Scotland Decides television debates. The ninety-minutes saw each man...
View ArticleBest of Both Worlds? Understanding the austerity Union
Scotland can have the best of both worlds if voters reject independence at next month’s referendum, says the Better Together campaign. The phrase has been repeated an incalculable number of times by...
View ArticleHistory’s most dismal manifesto – the emptiness of the ‘more powers’ promise
“It’s the best of both worlds argument that seems to have persuaded most Scots” Johann Lamont, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, wrote yesterday in the Scotsman. Again, the No campaign’s principal...
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