The Thelma and Louise of Scottish politics

Yet another Scottish opinion poll, this time by Norstat (formerly known as Panelbase) for the Sunday Times has confirmed the picture that is becoming clear from other recent opinion polling, Anas Sarwar and the Labour party in Scotland are in deep, deep trouble and unless there is some miracle between now…

The nastification of British politics

This week, yet another UK- wide opinion poll put Nigel Farage’s hard right anti-immigrant fan club Reform UK ltd. in poll position in Westminster voting intention. The poll, by YouGov, gave the Faragistes 26%, Labour 25% and the Tories 21%. This was shortly followed by another poll, this time carried out…

Welcome to Trump’s Greater Israel

Trump’s insane proposals risks an all-out war in the Middle East. Middle Eastern Eye reports: BREAKING: Donald Trump “we are not gonna buy Gaza, we are just gonna take it” Welcome to Trump’s Greater Israel: pic.twitter.com/kt6NKU6xZX — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) February 11, 2025 Source

What’s Wrong with Rangers?

Rangers are a travesty, but also a tragedy. Rangers fans have been calling for Phillipe Clement’s head after the team crashed out of the Scottish Cup to Queen’s Park  – the worst Scottish Cup exit in the club’s history. This was Rangers first ever defeat at home to lower league opposition in the Scottish Cup. […] Source

No jam tomorrow for Grangemouth with Labour

We have become so used to the lies and betrayals of the Labour party that a term for them has entered the language, ‘jam tomorrow’. The term was first used in the Lewis Caroll novel Alice Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1871, but by the latter half of the 20th century…

Big Flame and Scottish & Welsh Republican Socialists 1979-1982

Davy Marzella reviews lessons from Big Flame, a libertarian socialist organisation in England in the 1970-mid 80’s and the questions it still raises about the relationship between socialist struggle, republicanism and nationalism. As he argues “It was a very short historical episode, but one that held some unfulfilled potential.”  Big Flame Building Movements, New Politics […] Source

Starmer’s moral cowardice on Gaza

You could be forgiven for forgetting that Keir Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, after all, Keir Starmer seems to have forgotten too. The world was in shock on Wednesday morning after Donald Trump announced that he had unilaterally torn up the two state solution to the Israel-Palestine problem…