Why No One Believes John Swinney Will Deliver Independence
By Colin Fox, SSP National Co-Spokesperson Andy Burnham was in Motherwell this week [article originally published mid-October] on a visit designed to overshadow the SNP ...
uk-politics
Editorial: Illusion and Reality – What Do Leaders’ Speeches Actually Mean?
By Ken Ferguson This Voice is publishing only a matter of days before the contents of the Burnham Labour government’s budget is due to be revealed in the House of Commons . ...
Editorial: Another Week of Posturing as Multiple Crises Deepen
By Ken Ferguson If we believe what the increasingly insipid Scots media tell us we have just witnessed a historic vote at Holyrood in which fast dissolving Scottish ...
Editorial: Before Our Eyes the Failures of Profiteers’ Rule Dominate Our Planet
By Ken Ferguson The sheer horror of the flash floods in Nepal and Tibet that brought death, mass destruction and unquantifiable human misery with them is also the starkest ...
Editorial: 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 ...
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 ...
Editorial: 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, ...
Editorial: 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 — ...
Editorial: 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 ...
