Goodbye and good riddance, Douglas Ross

Goodbye and good riddance Douglas Ross, you won’t be missed. Scotland’s leading political hypocrite and back stabber has announced that he is standing down as the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. He also announced, in a shameless instance of hedging his bets, that he will also stand down as an MSP,…

Nasty Tories in a panic

The Tories have a well deserved reputation as the Nasty Party and during this general election campaign as they stare at electoral devastation in the face, the Tories appear to have decided that the reason they are so unpopular is because they are not being unpleasant and out of touch enough….

Gordon Maloney on Organising and Power

A discussion about the different strategies that make up a movement. I’m curious about how to describe you, would you call yourself an organiser? An activist?  I’m pretty relaxed about it. A lot of people feel very strongly about the distinctions between activism, organising, mobilising, campaigning… The way I see it is that you kind […] Source

Reservoir Dogs

Years ago people predicted ‘resource wars’ as natural resources like food and water became more and more scarce due to climate change. We’re in that future now, deep into it, and seemingly oblivious. As weeks of torrential rain is followed by more record-breaking heat, we go on. In Mexico they have elected today Claudia Sheinbaum, […] Source

Farage’s emergency announcement, an emergency for whom?

Nigel Farage is the herpes of British politics, annoying, nasty, and impossible to get rid of. After saying for weeks that he wouldn’t be contesting the general election for his Reform party vanity vehicle, and that Reform would not be doing any deals with the Tories, Farage announced on Monday morning…

Nuclear War, Scotland, and the General Election

On the day when Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary went on radio to say we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons, David Mackenzie makes the case for peace, and sanity.   Labours shadow defence secretary says we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/R5fuKh0ecW — Saul Staniforth […] Source