Anyone else getting déjà vu? It feels like the 1980s. Not just because we have a bad imitation of Thatcher about to be anointed by the Tory faithful, but the grim statistics of imminent poverty and homelessness and the strident right-wing rhetoric being played out against ordinary people fighting for a decent wage. New statistics […] Source

THE Insolvency Service has determined P&O Ferries will not face criminal proceedings over its actions in firing almost 800 workers earlier this year. Source

From Discontent. Hosted by Cat Boyd, with singer Iona Fyfe, activist Jonathon Shafi, singer songwriter Hawaii_Fivo, Conservative councillor Jo Mowat, writer John Ferry, and ex Scottish Rugby Internationalist Norrie Rowan. Source

P&O Ferries has been accused of acting like a “corporate gangster” for celebrating record profits just months after it sacked 800 UK-based workers without notice. Source

PROMISES of tax cuts from the two Tories aiming to take over as prime minister are “irresponsible fantasy”, the SNP have said, pointing to analysis from a prominent think-tank. Source

ARCHAEOLOGISTS working with The National Trust for Scotland have made new discoveries surrounding nineteenth century whisky production. Source

  Well-known Unionist commentator Alex Massie amusingly told Radio 4 yesterday: “If you were to say to me that there will be a referendum in say 15 years’ time, I would probably, if pushed, expect Scotland to vote for independence,”.  Some might have been surprised to hear Massie concede that Scottish…

A SUBSTANTIAL majority of the UK public support bringing key utility services into the public sector, extraordinary new polling has found. Source

The news that Salman Rushdie is recovering and ‘joking’ is good, though his family are also saying his injuries are ‘life changing’. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said his liver had been damaged and that he was likely to lose an eye. We are lucky that Rushdie is an icon of free speech and not a […] Source

“TAKE Back Control”, the mantra of this sovereignty-obsessed UK Government, is now needed more than ever Source

In the greatest economic crisis since the 2007 financial crash, with imminent threats to the public’s standard of living even greater than the near collapse of the banking system; and before that the world changing crisis of World War II, the Conservative Party has now abandoned even the fatiguing chore of overseeing government, for basic […] Source