Labour has made an unwise and foolish promise about how quickly it will deliver upon the New Deal for Working People
Forty years ago, the year-long miners' strike began on 6 March 1984, ending on 3 March 1985. By far, it was the biggest battle between the state and unions since the 1926 General Strike.
THE Scottish Government published its first prospectus in June of its Building a New Scotland series of papers promoting the case for independence. Called Independence in the Modern World – Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? it set out an ambitious aspiration: for Scotland to become a Nordic-type society.
FOR an iconic lyricist that penned classics for The Clash such as English Civil War (1978), Something about England (1980), and This is England (1985), Joe Strummer had a strange but somewhat late and close relationship with Scotland.
WE are now one year into Nicola Sturgeon’s third SNP Scottish Government and 15 years since the SNP won office at Holyrood. But now, the combined CalMac crisis and Ferguson Marine fiasco have pushed Sturgeon and the SNP Government further towards the rocks in the eyes of the public.
