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THE RICH PAY MORE TAX, WE ALL BENEFIT JUST how long are we going to accept increased poverty (including in-work poverty), foodbanks, homelessness, zero working hours, poor health, anti-trade union laws, nuclear weapons, reactionary economic and social policies, the lowest benefit support in Western Europe, and all the horrendous ways that inequality impact negatively on our people? How long are people going to continue to blame those groups of people who they deem to be less worthy than themselves – e.g., immigrants, asylum seekers, the unemployed, the sick, when we should be supporti...

LETTERS First Minister Nicola Sturgeon missed an opportunity to criticise the UK Government and say what Scotland could have done as an independent nation HAVING watched FMQs on Thursday, it’s clear – as it has been for a while now – that as much as Nicola is a good leader of the SNP, she is not the one to lead any independence charge. It’s not that she couldn’t, but that she doesn’t push for it, even when given the clearest of clear chances. Patrick Harvie asked her about the PM’s visit being unnecessary, he asked her about sticking too closely to the UK rules, he asked about...

THE US reveals it has a new suspect in the Lockerbie bombing case. Aamer Anwar, the Megrahi family’s lawyer, says he finds the timing of the American announcement “suspect”. I wholeheartedly agree, not least because this is the THIRD time in just over five years that Abu Agila Mas’ud has been named as a NEW suspect! On October 15, 2015, BBC News revealed that Mas’ud was a new suspect in the Lockerbie bombing case and authorities were keen to interview him. On December 20, 2018 – just prior to the 30th anniversary of the bombing and in the wake of two new books by Douglas Boyd ...

BUSINESS in the House of Commons on Tuesday included topical questions to the Home Secretary, and one of the questions posed was both interesting and timely, but also arrogant, because it came from a Scottish Conservative MP (John Lamont). This MP was seeking an update to the Seasonal Workers Scheme (allowing migrant workers to get a visa to work in UK) for 2021. The scheme has huge implications for the agricultural and hospitality sector. Timely, I’ll say, with Brexit looming. The uncertainty of Brexit has already had implications for Scottish fruit farmers in the last couple of year...