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A tactical vote for the SNP is our best chance for positive change – This Little Earth
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039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. May 6, 2015. May 6, 2015. A tactical vote for the SNP is our best chance for positive change. In response the Conservatives and their allies in the press have sought to delegitimise the voices of Scottish voters; Ed Miliband has threatened to walk away from being PM and abandon us to the Tories if we dare to vote for the SNP; Jim Murphy has relentlessly pedalled the line that the largest party forms the government.
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Callous Absolutism – This Little Earth
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039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. March 9, 2015. April 22, 2015. David Torrance isn’t happy. On Monday he accused me – in my earlier article for CommonSpace. From one of Scotland’s better-known journalists is something of a personal achievement. When the knowledge and contacts gained through parliamentary service are seen as something marketable, why should we be surprised when they are sold to the highest bidder? From a position of privilege it must ...
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Labour in Scotland – how did it come to this? – This Little Earth
https://thislittleearth.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/labour-in-scotland-how-did-it-come-to-this
039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. May 2, 2015. May 5, 2015. Labour in Scotland – how did it come to this? In many ways what we are witnessing is a reaping of the whirlwind sown from the mid-nineties and beyond the turn of the century, when Tony Blair’s New Labour swept to power on a wave of ‘Mondeo Man’ votes. Ideology would be replaced by electability; people would become consumers; ‘light-touch’, laissez-faire financial regulation would ...Throughou...
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Inequality is entrenched in our education system, and the new ‘appeals’ process is just the tip of a much more challenging iceberg – This Little Earth
https://thislittleearth.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/inequality-is-entrenched-in-our-education-system-and-the-new-appeals-process-is-just-the-tip-of-a-much-more-challenging-iceberg/comment-page-1
039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. December 17, 2014. January 26, 2015. Inequality is entrenched in our education system, and the new ‘appeals’ process is just the tip of a much more challenging iceberg. Quite a lot, as it happens, because the reality is quite different. Despite the understated descriptions of this change (you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing has really changed at all) the new system marks a radical and retrograde step...The new...
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Spontaneous Construction: Common Weal North Glasgow’s 2nd meeting | Democratastrophy
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November 17, 2014. Spontaneous Construction: Common Weal North Glasgow’s 2nd meeting. Words and Images by Mark Dawes. And then another 20 folk appeared…. More photos of the meeting here. Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Farage? Radical Is The New Normal: Radical Independence Campaign Conference 2014 →. One thought on “ Spontaneous Construction: Common Weal North Glasgow’s 2nd meeting. Reblogged this on Common Weal. November 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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The Latest ‘Cash-for-Access’ Scandal Reinforces Just How Broken Britain Really Is – This Little Earth
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039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. February 24, 2015. May 5, 2015. The Latest ‘Cash-for-Access’ Scandal Reinforces Just How Broken Britain Really Is. To make matters worse, some politicians and political commentators are already suggesting that all of this proves what they’ve been arguing for years that we should pay MPs more money. Political influence should never be a commodity to be purchased by the highest bidder, and the electorate deserve better ...
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Smiling About Politics: Common Weal And The New Grassroots | Democratastrophy
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November 2, 2014. Smiling About Politics: Common Weal And The New Grassroots. Now that the 2014 referendum is over there is no sign that smiling about politics. 8221; sums up a few other less well-known debate-refuseniks. Most surprising of all, I had a lengthy Twitter exchange with someone who insisted that the SNP should be disbanded because “they lost the referendum”. The majority governing party should disband. Because of one, admittedly elemental issue? The slogan “All of us first” is fr...Undoubted...
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Radical improvement to Scottish education demands radical changes to its structures – This Little Earth
https://thislittleearth.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/radical-improvement-to-scottish-education-demands-radical-changes-to-its-structures
039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. May 28, 2015. Radical improvement to Scottish education demands radical changes to its structures. So the results are in: data from the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN). Shows a decline in literacy standards amongst pupils in Scotland. Cue the usual hand-wringing, vague promises and political point scoring that we should all have come to expect by now. Unsurprisingly the current furore revolves around t...
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Labour in Scotland – how did it come to this? – This Little Earth
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039;Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.'. May 2, 2015. May 5, 2015. Labour in Scotland – how did it come to this? In many ways what we are witnessing is a reaping of the whirlwind sown from the mid-nineties and beyond the turn of the century, when Tony Blair’s New Labour swept to power on a wave of ‘Mondeo Man’ votes. Ideology would be replaced by electability; people would become consumers; ‘light-touch’, laissez-faire financial regulation would ...Throughou...