Labour in Scotland: Lying for votes

The Labour party’s Scottish accounting unit held its spring conference in Glasgow over the weekend, an event mainly focused on creating the fiction that the Labour party in Scotland is is distinct entity with a political identity and policies distinct from those of the UK Labour party in the iron grip…

This is Rigged in Holyrood Palace

Today nine people with This Is Rigged , carrying flags and banners, have staged a sit-in in the royal dining room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The group currently remains in place and is eating food. At 1.15 PM on the 19th of February, 9 people with the direct action campaign ‘This Is […] Source

Upturned Boats and the Hyper Banal

Increasingly Britain looks like Absurdistan, a bizarre dysfunctional place where the centrist political parties converge on doing nothing about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and share a dismal economic outlook as Britain heads again into recession. Take a glance at the chaos of the Rochdale byelection or the manic debate about naming the London Overground […] Source

Redcoats, Ridicule and Rage

If you are an independence supporter more concerned by the name of a cafe than the state of grotesque social inequality, the cost of living, or issues of poverty and housing in Scotland, then you are not, to quote Logan Roy, ‘Serious people’. But it’s also too easy to be dismissive of recognising that to […] Source