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In this column, what Blackford claims to be an “industrial strategy” amounts to little but further foreign direct investment to Scotland while evading its consequences — seen in recent months at both Alexander Dennis and PetroIneos.

It’s notable that there’s little evidence of intellectual growth on the new right. They’ve been in the ascendancy for a long time and the fruits are: scientism that would make the New Atheists blush, sobbing Jordan Peterson, and Thiel’s Anti-Christ gibberish.

I can’t get over the Scottish commentators - I mean people who get paid to discuss current events - who when confronted by the charnel house of Gaza first said… as little as possible. And then….. ‘shouldn’t we get back to debating JK Rowling?’

"Stop the War stands with Palestine Action and everyone here today... The use of terrorist legislation against people trying to stop a war is absurd, ludicrous but also deeply sinister" Watch Chris Nineham addressing thousands at this evening's rally in support of Palestine Action

Here’s why we would really appreciate a big turn out on Monday at mine and Ben Jamal’s trial… Thanks Jeremy Clancy Productions for making this short film.

The old Labour Party hasn’t existed for a good while, and its dead leaf echo is finally fading out.

My main beef with capitalist relations is that they aren’t revolutionary enough. Destroy these disgusting old forms post-haste. Get on with it.

The Labour operation out tonight slagging Sultana is panic. It doesn’t matter if a left party could only appeal to a margin at first - Labour’s electoral position is precarious. A few grains of sand on the scales and it collapses. They know it.

Stop sharing the he-said-she-said about new parties on the left. The media sphere is full of people who want to stoke infighting and protect the ancient regime. If you heard it here from someone whose nickname at uni was ‘woza’, it possibly isn’t true.

"Almost all resources and funding are oriented towards the car: the privatised bus system is a joke, the Subway hasn't been extended since the 1890s" Owen Hatherley reviews The Expressway World. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Persecuted by the state, widely ignored in the mainstream media, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos continues campaigning fearlessly for the people of Gaza. Join him with Andrew Feinstein, Sophie Johnson, Jonathon Shafi and Alex Kenny in Glasgow on the 22nd of July!

FT reveals Blair’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn Gaza into trading hub TBI document said the devastating war in Gaza had "created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles . . . as a secure, modern prosperous society"

Good to see a Scottish paper doing journalism about our country’s foreign policy and the activities of its armed forces. Y’know…politics. Remember that? Maybe it’ll encourage some others to write about this stuff?

Outside the court where we have just heard Chris Nineham& Ben Jamal trial date postponed til 23 Feb 2026. This is an absolute disgrace #FreeBenAndChris #InOurMillions #DefendTheRightToProtest #DropTheCharges

This is grist to the mill for wrong-headed ‘Israel controls UK(/US) policy’ attitudes. But the impetuous is coming from the UK government. They use the spectre of foreign disapproval to pursue domestic censorship. Move these matters into the grey area of intl relations.

Out in September

I’ll be speaking at this in an hour, on the US strategy in the Middle East and where the UK and particularly Scotland fit in.

“This means a break not just with the Labour Party, but also with Labourism. Overcoming the idea that working class organisation and extra-parliamentary movements are subordinate to electoralism.” From this week’s The National column. thenational.scot/news/25295892.…