In a world of spin, the facts will set you free
by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...
Scottish independence
Neither tragedy nor farce but action for real change can save the day
by Ken Ferguson · If Marx was right when he wrote the famous dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy than as farce you have to wonder where on that scale lies the crisis wracked UK now? ...
Time the left faced indy’s new challenges
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the unseasonal February weather? ...
Action on people’s priorities can drive real change
by Ken Ferguson · Even political junkies must be reeling by now at the dizzying pace of Brexit crisis following Brexit crisis and the saturation media discussion of it on what feels like a 24/7 ...
Westminster not a motorway to change
by Ken Ferguson • After a summer smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite, in time honoured fashion, the millionaire-dominated media changed tack at Liverpool. The tale now is of a dangerously left wing ...
Demos are essential but they’re not enough
by Ken Ferguson • Temperatures soar to new heights as Glasgow gets hotter than Greece and, as we go to press with this Voice, the heatwave stretches on. Likewise in the world of politics the ...
At Holyrood and Westminster, crisis is the new normal
by Ken Ferguson • As autumn draws on, crisis is the new normal across UK and Scottish politics. Scottish Labour faces a fresh leadership crisis, Scotland’s Tories face scandals over trolling and ...
Corbyn, confusion, socialism and indy
by Ken Ferguson • The recent general election which reduced the Tories to a minority government and put UK Labour some 50 seats behind them has caused shock waves across politics not least in the ...
Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2
by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June Euro poll, the Voice ...
Socialism and independence or Tory barbarism to the far horizon
by Ken Ferguson • It’s official, revealed by none other than Chancellor Hammond, falling wages and service cuts alongside housing shortages, health cuts, insecure work and falling benefits ...
