What to say of the passing of the Queen? I think there will be much, but not today. At this moment I think it appropriate Read the full article...

IndyCar Gordon Ross - 22.8.22

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Mega disaster.
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Useless new PM.
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Ulster unionist and Lady-Colonel Ruth to tour UK.
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Strikes across every public sector...

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IndyCar GordonRoss - Iceland will recognise a Yes majority & accept Scotland as a new state -17.3.21

Boris Johnson’s changes to the role of special advisers (SpAds) are disempowering ministers and undermining the quality of government decision making, says a new report by the Institute for Government

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Writing today on wsws.org, Steve James, says: The horrifying train wreck near Stonehaven, Scotland, last week, was the result of the dilapidated condition of Britain’s rail infrastructure. Starved for decades of essential maintenance funding, the railways have been transformed by successive governments into state-subsidised cash cows for private corporations. Network Rail’s cost-cutting: It...

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40 death announcements delayed by family notification procedures were added to the 10 from the last 24 hours, announced today. This takes the mortality rate to 4.8% up from 3.2% yesterday. These 40 deaths will be spread across a number of previous days in a distribution as yet unknown but will further clarify the trend. […]

THE Tories won the election in England and Wales with 43.6% of the vote. Ignorant narcissist Boris Johnson claims this gives him a mandate to pursue Brexit.

It’s been a bad week for Boris, who is (booed in Edinburgh – booed in Cardiff) we should remember still enjoying his “honeymoon” period. God knows what his reception will be when he’s been in the job a few weeks. The entire experiment is a severe miscalculation by the Conservatives, lured by their over-active imagination […]

Reminders from Orkney Islands Council

"Scottish salmon farm medicine is significantly impacting local marine environments which increases the now substantial weight of scientific evidence that the existing approaches do not adequately protect marine life."

IMF WARNING STRENGTHENS SNP CALL TO REMAIN IN SINGLE MARKET The SNP has said the UK government is offering a damaging "false choice" on Brexit between a bad deal or no deal at all - as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today warned all likely Brexit outcomes would harm the UK economy. Speaking at her annual briefing at the Treasury, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned "all the...

Many of you may not be aware, I wasn’t until late last nigh,t that there is a planned “day of action” by the SNP on the 29th September. This day of action, which you can read about here is a listening exercise to gauge public opinion on Scottish independence in the face of the looming… Read More And so the End of the Union Begins…

Three-quarters of a century ago, the economist and social reformer William Beveridge identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain. He declared that there were five giant evils on the road to reconstruction: poverty, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. To defeat these giants, he proposed setting up a welfare state with social security, a national health service,...

Gavin Corbett argues that MoD withdrawal from Redford Barracks is a major opportunity which the city should seize. The Ministry of Defence announced in 2016 that it planned to pull […]

The second half of my life has been a continual process of disillusionment with the institutions I used to respect. I suppose it started with the FCO, where I went from being Britain’s youngest ambassador to being sacked for opposing the use of intelligence from torture, at the same time having an insider view of […]The post Index on Disgrace appeared first on Craig Murray.

Poet and music fan Victoria McNulty considers the legacy of the Stone Roses and class division in the UKIN 21st century Tory Britain, working class heroes are steeped in populism, raised on Geordie Shore excess and reeking of fake tan. In the early 1990s, they rose: starved by Thatcher and made of stone, like the Northern powerhouses from which they came. Cities like mine. They weren't just...

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