Oct 10, 2023
It’s said that the US Congress is the best that money can buy. Corporate cash and the revolving door between it and Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Oil, and the military industrial complex has destroyed democratic accountability. Where America goes, so goes its...
Oct 7, 2023
Unionists often write that Scotland is indebted to the UK. In fact, the reverse is true. The British state’s plans to use oil and gas to “power-up Britain” relies on 90% of its supply from Scotland. It’s not just old energy that England steals from...
Oct 6, 2023
Douglas Ross giving economic advice to Scotland is lunacy. We’d be crazy to let the Tories continue their wrecking ball policies by electing even more of them in Scotland. This is the party that brought us over a decade of austerity that has gutted public services,...
Oct 5, 2023
A government should advocate for all its people and the opposition should pounce when it fails to do so. But that’s not what happens here in the dysfunctional UK. This is illustrated by Ken Loach’s last film, The Old Oak, about a working class community near Durham...
Oct 5, 2023
Labour is economically clueless. Rachel Reeves says she’ll follow the Bank of England’s destructive interest rate policies and the Office for Budget Responsibility’s useless forecasts. Both institutions are neoliberal to the core and helped spawn the 2008 financial...
