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20 years after devolution, there is much unfinished business
In contrast to the conciliatory platitudes offered by other party leaders, RICHARD LEONARD made a distinctly political speech as Holyrood hosted the Queen for its 20th anniversary celebrations
CUT THE POMP: Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard (right) addressed the Queen during a ceremony marking 20 years of the devolved parliament
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
I STAND proudly as the leader of the party which in government delivered devolution. I stand proudly as the leader of the party which in opposition defends devolution.
Because it is an unassailable truth that each generation has to win the same battles over again. I stand proudly, but with great humility. Today is a time for reflection, and to think of those we have lost. I think especially this morning of Donald Dewar, who at the opening of this parliament 20 years ago said: “Today there is a new voice in the land, the voice of a democratic parliament. A voice to shape Scotland, a voice for the future.”
And he would be the first to say that we have much unfinished business. We began to reform the ownership of our land, [as Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote in the early 20th century]: “The land out there, under the sleet, churned and pelted there in the dark.”
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