My Articles
Gender equality still has a long way to go
Tomorrow marks 100 years since Parliament passed a law which allowed women, and all men, to vote for the first time.
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Scotland has made great steps in LGBT issues but it’s time to speak up for transgender equality
This week marks the start of LGBT History Month.
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Theresa May should sack Tory MP Ben Bradley over his shameful blog posts
Ben Bradley, the newly appointed Tory vice-chairman, found himself in a spot of bother this past week as a series of right-wing blog posts he had written before becoming a MP resurfaced.
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Time is running out to stop Brexit catastrophe
The Tories and Labour are failing Scotland on Brexit.
by Theresa May needs to show backbone over sexist Toby Young appointment
Toby Young describes himself as a ‘maverick’ when, in fact, he is a man with dangerous and damaging views who hasn’t hesitated to share them with the wider world.
by My New Year’s resolution is to hold the Tories to account when they let Scotland down
Mhairi Black’s New Year’s resolution: to keep on holding the Tories to account when they let Scotland down
by Time for Jeremy Corbyn to get off the Brexit fence and back the single market
In the last week, everything we feared about the UK Government’s handling of the Brexit negotiations turned out to be true.
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Thanks to the Tories, this will be food banks busiest Christmas to date
Many more people are expected to go hungry this Christmas. I’m not talking about people in far-flung places, but in our own towns and communities.
by The Tory budget means we’re all going to be much poorer for much longer
Mhairi Black: Sorry if I’m the one bearing the bad news, but the truth is, we are all going to be much poorer for much longer than anybody thought possible.
by The Tories are letting young people down and it has to stop
It’s Budget week – a time when political parties write out their wish lists to the Chancellor.
by Boris Johnson simply has to go
They say a week is a long time in politics, and for Theresa May it’s probably felt like an eternity.
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Ruth Davidson’s band of Westminster MPs stand on the sidelines as thousands are pushed into poverty by Tories’ Universal Credit rollout
It won’t surprise anyone to hear that I’m no fan of the Tories and their right-wing politics – but this week Ruth Davidson’s band of Scottish Tory MPs sunk to a new low. Across Scotland thousands of families are being pushed into poverty, debt and destitution as the UK government rolls out its disastrous Universal Credit system.
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Rollout of Universal Credit is an unmitigated disaster and it must be stopped
If you haven’t heard of Universal Credit, you will soon – unless the Tories wake up and change their plans.
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It’s astonishing that we still don’t know what Brexit will mean
It’s conference season for political parties, which means journalists are traipsing around the UK from one conference centre to another. But the press pack would have been able to enjoy a bit of sun, not to mention good pizza, as they traipsed out to Italy on Friday to see the Prime Minister speak about Brexit.
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People across the country are paying the price for the Tory wage crisis
Tory failure in government has meant a pay cut for families across the country – as wages have fallen in real terms over the last decade.
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We’ve had a decade of success but there is still so much more to achieve
“Get on with the day job.” It’s a line that the opposition in the Scottish Parliament enjoy throwing around all too often. The irony, of course, is that for the past decade – in contrast to the Tory zombie government in Westminster – the SNP have been getting on with the job of governing in Scotland.
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The most vulnerable in society are being left behind by the Tory government
The UK has the most millionaires in Europe while the most vulnerable in society are being left behind by the Tory government
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