Brutality of Tory cuts swells the opposition
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson As the Voice has been reporting, the cuts are getting worse. The Tories pledged to make £12billion in benefit cuts and voted ...
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Failed demolition a symbol for housing policy failure
by Jack Ferguson Last year, Glasgow City Council and their partners announced the bizarre plan of demolishing Glasgow’s Red Road flats during the opening ceremony of the ...
Second indyref cannot be won by a one-party campaign
by Jenni Gunn The Yes campaign and the referendum as a whole served as an intense political education for many Scots—myself included. The experience is one that many ...
Where is the SNP going on fracking?
by Allan Grogan Thomas Carlyle once wrote that “the greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none”. I am often reminded of this as I see the Scottish ...
Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern
by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity ...
Benefit cuts link to deaths
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson All deaths impact on the family and friends of the person who has died. Especially so when it is by someone’s own ...
Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald ...
Challenging revenge porn at its roots
by Jenni Gunn There have been many high-profile victims in recent years of a dangerous online phenomenon—revenge porn. Whilst celebrity victims have garnered the lion’s ...
Time for a citizens’ solution to Scotland’s media crisis
by Jack Ferguson The recent news that the editor of both the Sunday Herald and The National, Richard Walker, is to resign as part of an effort by owners Newsquest to cut ...
Neither Sturgeon or Corbyn have the answer
by Ken Ferguson There is an old saying “nothing is new under the sun” and nowhere is this more clearly the case as in the world of politics. With the demands and the ...
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