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New Labour-style disdain for hospital patients
Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
SCOTLAND’S Health Secretary doesn’t hold the easiest of briefs. The previous one, Shona Robison, eventually ceded to calls for her resignation amid a series of NHS scandals and missed targets — the most serious of which covered her own constituency.
Her successor Jeane Freeman was called a “liar” by Labour’s Neil Findlay over the mesh cancer treatment scandal.
After being thrown out of Holyrood’s debating chamber, Findlay charged: “Either she lied about instructing her officials to investigate reintroducing mesh implants or is so incompetent she does not have a clue what is going on inside her own department.”
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