Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, December 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
The news you didn’t see this week…
The Scottish National Party has come under fire over its handling of homeless families.
‘No-one believes that Nicola Sturgeon is a Scottish Boris Johnson. Starmer doesn’t believe it himself. Yet, the Labour leadership tries to sell this fable.’
‘Improvements to Criminal Justice have been equally central to the ambitions of the SNP’.
“It seems to me that the dynamism within Scottish politics is there within the SNP.”
The COP 26 international climate summit loomed over the 2021 SNP conference, but its legacy is contested by workers.
Usually, foreign observers want to know just one thing about Scottish politics – is the country heading for a break with the UK?
Ian Blackford has slammed plans by the UK’s Conservative government to hike National Insurance (NI) as a “new Tory poll tax” and claimed that independence is the only answer to a new wave of “austerity”.
SNP members have defied their own government by voting for a National Energy Company (NEC) ditched by party leaders just days ago.
The party’s reign at the top of Scottish politics doesn’t stretch to the 1970s, but 14 years of power make it a rarity in European politics