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Since the high point of 2014, the political landscape in Scotland has taken a fucking battering. We started as a grassroots, left-leaning movement for a better country, but a decade later we’re looking at a fragmented mess where some folk are more interested in reactionary “culture wars” than actually fixing the politucally created poverty our […]
By our Health Correspondent. It is a common mistake to view the current state of our people in Scotland as a series of unfortunate biographical accidents, or perhaps as a collective failure of what the nineteenth-century novelists used to call “character.” When one actually walks through these post-industrial landscapes today, it becomes difficult to avoid […]
By Gael The air in our communities is thick with a justifiable, burning anger. After decades of a Westminster-driven economic squeeze, people are searching for a way to strike back at a system that treats them like an afterthought. Into this landscape of genuine hardship step the charlatans of Reform UK, led by Richard Tice […]
Jock Mulligan on Mandelson. The long and the winding road of Peter Mandelson’s political career has reached a bitter and a shameful end. At fughing last. For a man who twice walked away from the high table with the whiff of the backstairs deal hanging about him, these new tales from the Epstein papers have […]
I’ve sat in draughty community halls from Easterhouse to Maryhill for thirty years, and I’ve seen some shit in my time. I’ve seen the “vanguard” cults try to hijack local strikes and the middle-class “missionaries” come into our schemes to lecture us on solidarity before jumping into a taxi back to their Bearsden bungalows and […]
Let’s be straight with each other—the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a bad actor. For decades, they’ve trailed around like the self-appointed high priests of the working class, but if you look at the wreckage they’ve left behind, especially here in Scotland, it’s clear their only real loyalty is to the survival of their own […]
Tressell’s masterpiece doesn’t need any high-tech polish; it’s a grit-under-the-fingernails account of how the working man is conned into his own poverty. If you want to understand why the “tech-bros” and the boardroom liquidators find it so easy to pull the wool over our eyes today, you have to go back to the source. The […]
This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]
By Jock Mulligan I see the prolific Gael and others have recently been banging on this drum too. But I can’t fughing well stress hard enough how much my friends and comrades need to get to grips to understand the massive attack we are under from the device in our pockets. The device we pull […]
Manufacturing emotion and stealing stability. The Digital Factory of Despair – How They Farm Your Outrage By Gael There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way the modern world tries to steal your soul. We used to talk about the factory floor and the picket line; today, the factory is in your pocket, […]