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Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan  THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, ...

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'Better Together' just circling the drain

   By Mark McNaught Last week the Queen gave her speech presenting the UK government’s manifesto for the next year.  ...

Commentary | Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | Comments

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Time to move forward

By Allan Grogan of Labour for Independence "Someone in Glasgow is no different to someone in London or Cardiff ...

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Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan
 
THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, populist party that has its roots in the values and nostalgia of Middle England.
 
Boris Johnson wants the income from council tax, business rates and stamp duty devolved to the London Assembly – perfectly justifiable, but a body blow to the argument the Union is about fiscal sharing, as the metropolis is the richest part of the UK by far.

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'Better Together' just circling the drain

   By Mark McNaught

Last week the Queen gave her speech presenting the UK government’s manifesto for the next year.  As I watched it, I wondered to what degree she actually agrees with what she was proposing, or whether she was just channelling the neo-liberal think tanks that provide the Tories with their discredited intellectual architecture. 

The Queen’s Delphic treatment of the question of devolution was notably short on substance.

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An Open Letter to Scottish Labour Voters, Members and Elected Representatives

By Rob Connell
 
In a scene replicated in many Scottish workplaces I’m sure, I was recently party to a lunchtime conversation on voting intention.  One colleague stated that they would "always vote for the red rose, my family always has".  I thought this beautifully stated a very popular position, and that it would be interesting to explore why.
 
Scottish Labour stands on the great egalitarian tradition of the Labour movement, with their website evoking Keir Hardie’s "new and radical force in Scottish politics" and remembering the first Labour Government in 1924 "legislating for the first major programme of municipal house building".

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Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity Stunts

By Roddy Macdonald
 
As the storm in a teacup that was the utterly contrived Susan Calman "abuse" and "death threats" stooshie was subsiding, Tom Peterkin of the Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday obviously thought he'd stoke the flames of Cybernat Hysteria and get in touch with Dr Gavin Bowd of St Andrews University.  On 5th May they published the article Academic Gavin Bowd Calls Police After Online Abuse.
 
This hilarious article which is almost beyond parody kicks off:

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First Minister's Questions - 16 May 2013 - video

In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we have uploaded the latest session.

Many people are unable to navigate both the Scottish Parliament's own recordings and BBC Scotland’s online recording of the event, and thus Newsnet Scotland believes that by publishing here we make the event accessible to a much wider audience than would otherwise be the case.

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Time to move forward

By Allan Grogan of Labour for Independence

"Someone in Glasgow is no different to someone in London or Cardiff and I think it's really important to remember that."

If this comment above sounds familiar it may be because you heard it on the video launch of United with Labour. But it is more likely that you will hear it from a Labour member voting no in 2014.

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UKIP: A Scottish irrelevance – a 'Scottish' media obsession

  By Campbell Martin
 
Unfortunately, British broadcasters and newspapers don’t make any concessions for Scotland, so you would be forgiven for thinking the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) was now a political force.
 
Over the past week, our so-called ‘national’ news on the BBC, broadcast from London, has been reporting how UKIP produced a seismic shift in politics by securing almost 25% of the votes cast in local government elections.  The fact those local elections only took place in parts of England and had no relevance to Scotland was barely mentioned.

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Who Speaks for Scotland and Where are the Empathy Makers?

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, May 11th 2013
 
These are baffling times – of big issues and challenges, but of a politics and political conversations which are increasingly problematic, not just in Scotland but across much of the world.
 
How many times have we been told that the independence debate is a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ or ‘a historic moment’?

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