The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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The scandalous dereliction of Glasgow’s land and buildings needs to be challenged
If the city is to address its housing problems, it cannot merely rely on landlords to co-operate in the public good, says PAUL SWEENEY
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
GLASGOW has been Scotland’s largest metropolis for almost two centuries.
It is a city with an extraordinary legacy of fine Victorian and Edwardian architecture, but due to an unacceptable capitulation to market forces and a lack of capacity in local government to address the emerging structural issues facing these buildings, it is a legacy increasingly at risk.
The “gilded age” prior to the outbreak of the first world war that bequeathed such a handsome cityscape saw Glasgow grow to become the fourth-largest city in Europe — generating extraordinary civic investment in public buildings and infrastructure.
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Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
