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'A dark and dingy studio, with patronising monologues about flags and Britishness delivered by nervous-looking former Conservative MPs and tabloid pundits, frequently interrupted by glitches and gaffes'.
@David_Jamieson7 reviews GB News, via @SourceScot.
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This week in @SourceScot, Common Weal Care Reform Group member Colin Turbett (@ctur282388) looks at the English Care Review of Children’s Social Work Services and its significance for ‘the Promise’ in Scotland.
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"The Home Office will likely do everything in its power to prevent such a humiliation from being repeated or setting a precedent."
@SeanCMBell, via @SourceScot.
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My report from the Kenmure victory.
Analysis: The battle of Kenmure Street inaugurates a new Tory assault on liberties
“This is only the beginning of what could prove an explosive few years," reports @David_Jamieson7
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'Scotland, for all its faults, is a politically engaged country...
The task ahead for those who not only support independence but are wary of leaving its fate in too few hands is to make it an intellectually engaged country.'
@SeanCMBell, via @SourceScot.
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“There are of course things that any government, even those lacking many formal foreign policy powers, can do to help the Palestinians.”
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Analysis: Palestine, protest and complicity – which way forward in Scotland?
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My final pre-election piece.
Sean Bell: What kind of election campaign has it been?
As Scotland prepares to go to the polls tomorrow, Source editor @SeanCMBell reflects on the #Holyrood2021 campaign
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'Access to a savagely commodified housing market has become a key issue in Scotland – but are our politicians responding?'
@David_Jamieson7, via @SourceScot.
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I've matched @Living_Rent's key 2021 demands against party manifesto pledges.
(With the proviso that manifestos aren't written in tablet, let alone tablets of stone:)
Greens and Labour top the bill.
SNP and Lib Dems trail.
In recent years, campaigners have raised the profile of housing and tenant's right in Scottish politics.
How well do party pledges match-up to the demands of Scotland’s housing movement in #SP21?
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'For years, the case for independence has been little more than “Brexit bad”. Like it or not, Scottish voters agreed, and they still do.
But the reality simply isn’t apocalyptic enough to sustain a movement without a vision.'
James Foley, via @SourceScot.
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“Strangely, the SNP leadership haven’t remembered one of the arch lessons of 2014: Project Fear can backfire disastrously.” @David_Jamieson7
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🎥 As @ScotRail franchise comes to an end, @TSSAunion argues for public ownership of railways in Scotland.
"The failed Tory experiment of privatisation on our railways is over." -@Manuel_TSSA
@ScottishTUC @NetworkRailSCOT
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We look at a major new report from the STUC and ask: are Scotland’s parties rising to meet the post-pandemic economic challenges?
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Analysis: Covid ‘Winners and Losers’ – is Scotland’s politics up to the challenge?
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“It’s essential [single parents and carers] have access to high quality services that enable them to enter employment that pays a living wage and living hours.”
@SourceScot reports on our new research with @OxfamScotland.
🎥 Our CEO @SatwatR explains.
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@SourceScot - “A socialisation of care is required, one that trains and pays people to care. This requires a cultural shift – which exalts care rather than treating it as something that should go unseen, unheard and unremunerated.”
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'A more honest and complete appraisal of Francoism might have to confront the fact that its legacy endures in more forms than street names and antiquated legislation.'
@SeanCMBell, via @SourceScot.
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Nice write-up of new @ScottishTUC report by @L__Macfarlane and me on how the covid crisis is widening inequalities in Scotland.
We look at a major new report from the STUC and ask: are Scotland’s parties rising to meet the post-pandemic economic challenges?
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Analysis: Covid ‘Winners and Losers’ – is Scotland’s politics up to the challenge?
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'British foreign policy and arms sales have always sown chaos; and where truly progressive movements emerge, Britain has most often been their enemy.'
James Foley, via @SourceScot.
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🎥 Council tax reform - the poor shouldn't be made to pay for Covid recovery.
"Council tax is out of date and unfair. Lower income families currently pay the highest bills as a proportion of their income." - @IPPRScotland
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23 years from Good Friday: my take on Britain's myth-making about the deal, and the cynicism of a politics that wants to maintain and unjust social settlement out of a suspicion of people in the region. Working class people can build something better.
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