Latest editorial
LOYALISTS in Scotland have refused to end their support for far-right protesters who confronted refugee rights and anti-racist demonstrations in Glasgow despite their links to neonazism.
Grand Master Jim McHarg of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland previously rejected any claims of racism or neonazism being on display during protests in Glasgow.
Mr McHarg refused yesterday to condemn thugs who gathered to oppose a demonstration at George Square by activists seeking to stop evictions of refugees.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL