Monday, 2 March 2015

Who lives in a h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ country like this?

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Wouldn't it be awful to live in Putin's Russia?, we're asked. A place where corruption runs rampant, who you know is more impor...
Friday, 20 February 2015

Labour takes its revenge on Glasgow with Austerity-Max budget

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The Labour Party was quite explicit: "vote Yes and we will punish you".  Well, never let it be said that Labour doesn't deliv...
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Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Abuse, smears and threats

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Language and emotion is part of political discourse. We are fighting for things we believe in, and the "other side" is fighting j...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Should Scottish Labour dial M for Murdo?

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Scottish Labour, at this particular moment, resemble a seagull trapped in a bin bag as they lurch from fiasco to disaster, panicked, and de...
Sunday, 15 February 2015

On physical mechanisms for a Greek withdrawal from EMU

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There's been a great deal written about the financial and social consequences of the Hellenic Republic withdrawing from European Moneta...
Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Why the only way Scotland can deliver a Tory government to a putative Labour-voting England is to vote...Scottish Labour

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There's been an interesting explosion in cries de coeur from Labour types keening about the possibility of their erstwhile Conservative...
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Thursday, 5 February 2015

Glasgow's rejection of Labour has been a long time coming: and deserved

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It might surprise some people to realise that, despite my youthful good looks, I was in secondary school at the age of 13 when the 1997 Gen...