By-Election Spotlights Ongoing Crisis
Editorial by Ken Ferguson, Voice Editor AS COMMENTATORS reach for that grievously overworked “historic” superlative and outbid each other in the significance stakes it ...
uk-politics
Embezzlement and calls to pamper the rich spotlight the gulf between the powerful and the people
By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press we are in the midst of headline grabbing stories generated by the formerly or still self defined powerful in ways that leave the ...
Election heralds urgent need to break with passivity and head for real change
by Ken Ferguson IN SCOTLAND, the election contains both positives and negatives with the balance coming down, at least provisionally’, on the progressive side. The ...
Privatisation is the cause of the crisis in the NHS… not the cure
By Colin Fox, SSP Co-Spokesperson IN HER RECENT BUDGET, Rachel Reeves declared that “ending the crisis in the NHS” was one of her top priorities. And well she might, ...
Class Politics: the critical antidote to the far-right virus
By Ken Ferguson AS THIS LAST VOICE of 2025 goes to press, the air is thick with claim and counter-claim on a possible pact, alliance or even merger between the Tory Party — ...
Spin, Neglect, and Anger: How Labour’s Failures Fuel the Far Right
By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press, the grumbling volcano of fear and resentment sparked among Labour MPs by the party’s opinion poll plunge to all-time historic ...
40-year free market fairytale exposed, as public ownership returns centre stage
by Ken Ferguson • Leave aside the panicky Saturday recall of parliament amidst a welter of sub Churchillian guff about the ‘national interest’. The real story in the ...
Past time for the Left to ‘see it, say it, sort it’
Pic: Craig Maclean EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • Chancellor Reeves’ much hyped dash for growth which would take the UK in a new direction leading to sunny uplands of ...
Trump hoggs the headlines but Burns points the way ahead
EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • As 2025 unfolds and the era of Trump 2.0 begins crisis confronts us on every hand with the now openly flaunted power of the likes of Musk thrown ...
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