Safety first
Craig Carson, Labour's candidate for Holyrood in Glasgow Cathcart, says to ensure our children's safety and mental health we must think again about a phased return to school when...
Spot the socialist
Alastair Osborne condemns the pretence that only one faction in the Labour Party are true socialists, and argues that Labour has always been, and continues to be, a broad...
A real test of the desire for independence
London-based Dan McCurry is chair of the Labour Party Economic Society. Here he argues that fiscal autonomy for Scotland could be delivered within the union as part of an...
A mockingbird slain
Roger Brydon, a Borders-based GP, urges us to push past accusations of virtue signalling, drop our defensiveness around the reality of white privilege, and stand up with those fighting...
My Covid reality
28-year-old Labour activist Callum O’Dwyer began displaying symptoms of Covid-19 in the first week of lockdown. Here he shares his experience of recovery and its aftermath, and urges us...
The insurer of last resort?
Ralph Kirkwood considers that the coronavirus epidemic is one in a series of inevitable crises, and argues that we have seen government behave in part as the “insurer of...
Starmer’s Gaitskell moment
John Carson argues that Keir Starmer has echoed the leadership of Hugh Gaitskell in his address to the nation, but for Keir to really succeed he must follow Gaitskell’s...