The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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A new Scotland or reheated unionism?
With the release of a new political report from Gordon Brown, VINCE MILLS warns there needs to be a real national discussion about the direction Scotland wants to take
WHICH WAY? (Left to right) former PM Gordon Brown, Labour Party
leader Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
THERE was a distinct feeling — belief even — that things were looking up for Scottish Labour.
It had replaced the Tories as the second party in Scotland. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar had good, and improving, personal ratings, and both the Tories and the SNP appeared to be imploding.
Little need be said about the Tories. The apparent disintegration of SNP unity though, was new.
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