Author: Speymouth

The Liz Truss of political prose

Speymouth October 28, 2022

It’s not a joke, well, it is a joke, but in a different way entirely. The right wing Spectator magazine must have had some sort of nervous breakdown because it has seen fit to publish the turgid musings of “I’m not a nationalist because I’m British” blogger Effie Deans, writing under…

FACT: When Scotland rejoins the EU we won’t have to use the Euro

Speymouth October 27, 2022

Would an independent Scotland have to use the euro? The answer is “No”. Nicola Sturgeon was correct when she told Douglas Ross this today – but that doesn’t prevent Scotland’s Unionist politicians and media doing their best to spread confusion.  The Times headline today was “Join the euro or your…

Sunak : Zero to Nero in six hours

Speymouth October 26, 2022

Well that didn’t take long, did it? It took a couple of weeks for the sheer useless awfulness of Liz Truss’s government to become apparent, although admittedly that was in large part because all of politics came to a halt due to the compulsory British nationalist commournathon. However Rish! Sunak’s exclamation…

An elected dictatorship without the election

Speymouth October 24, 2022

We are in for the fifth Prime minister in six years, and the tenth Tory Prime Minister that Scotland hasn’t voted for. They say that bad luck comes in threes and right on cue along comes the third Conservative Prime Minister this year. This time the Conservatives aren’t even pretending that…

Keep Calm and Carry On

Speymouth October 23, 2022

It’s a form of delirium. Memory loss and the failure to process events into sequence is the sign of a degeneration in mental capacity, and yet here we are. After the debacle of Liz Truss, we are presented by the idea of the return of Boris Johnson to the position of Prime Minister. This requires […] Source

From Glasgow to Sharm el-Sheikh, Out of the Ruins of COP26

Speymouth October 22, 2022

Quan Nguyen was the Scottish Coordinator of the COP26 Coalition. Here he reflects on lessons learned about protest and movement building in the shadow of COP26. This time last year , we were getting ready. I remember the police threatening us with arrest for holding a banner at Glasgow Central, where hundreds of climate activists […] Source

The Growth Fetish

Speymouth October 21, 2022

As Britain spirals into chaos that has run out of words to describe it, Liz Truss disappears. In desperation at her party conference, she turned to one of the many phantoms in her head and coined an interesting concept: the antigrowth coalition. In the beleaguered Prime Minister’s head such a coalition spans an unlikely grouping […] Source