Sunday, 29 May 2011

A War To Help The Libyan People?

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Speaking in London this week Barak Obama warned that Qaddafi must ‘stand down and leave Libya to the Libyan people.’ It was another fine exa...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Scotland's Political Climate Changes Utterly

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As landslides go the 2011 Holyrood election was huge. Scotland has been shaken to its political foundations as voters again voiced their con...
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Yesterday I Delivered This Speech At The Edinburgh May Day Rally

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May Day 2011 will be remembered for the SNP's truly historic and extraordinary election victory at Holyrood. Like it or not the implicat...
Monday, 25 April 2011

Time To Abolish The Council Tax - Not Freeze It

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The opinion polls suggest Labour and the SNP are neck and neck in the race for Holyrood 2011. Interestingly both parties now support a freez...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

For a Modern Democratic Republic

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All across Scotland political parties are vying for votes and spending millions of pounds trying to engage the electorate in the 'democr...
Thursday, 14 April 2011

SSP's Holyrood Manifesto

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The Scottish Socialist Party launched our manifesto for the 2011 Holyrood elections yesterday at a press conference in Glasgow. With me at t...
Sunday, 3 April 2011

Prescription Charges Abolished in Scotland After 50 Years

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After my election to Holyrood in 2003 I launched a Private Members Bill to scrap prescription charges. The SSP's Bill won the backing of...