Just days after Alex Salmond fired the starting gun on the two and a half year “Yes to Independence” campaign, the weekend’s press has been full of talk of tactics on both sides of the debate.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has branded Tory union bashing “bad politics”, amidst reports a third of trade unionists are thought to be Conservative.
Ministers are using low gilt yields as a sign of coalition “credibility”, yet low yields are a sign of undermined growth, explains Cormac Hollingsworth.
The Houla massacre of 32 children is so unimaginably evil it’s time for Western liberal military intervention in Syria to take out President Bashar al-Assad.
Carlos Mulas, Executive Director of Fundacion IDEAS, tells the story of a new, pan-European campaign against ever more austerity.
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Look Left, our weekly round up of the week’s news, will be going out shortly.
Greg Palast investigates the role of BP in the regime of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, a corrupt regime which kills its opponents.
We’re hoping #guiltfreeEurovision & azerbaijanpetition.org will trend on the evening of Eurovision, writes Mike Harris, Head of Advocacy at Index on Censorship.
Ben Shave from Supporters Direct writes about the achievements of supporters’ trusts and how they shouldn’t be underestimated.
