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Biden’s foreign policy is a complete mess
David Pratt concisely and clearly explains how Joe Biden is making an absolute mess of the US’s foreign policy stance
Why Scotland never creates it’s supply chain
Really clear explanation by Dick Winchester of why Scotland is going to lose out AGAIN from the opportunity to develop a renewable energy supply chain
Scotland’s real government…
An excellent piece from Nick Kempe on the insidious role of KPMG (and the other Big Accountancy firms) in the government of Scotland
Let’s not start a war with Russia
As the West seems determined to start a war with Russia, Simon Jenkins is one of the few people making any sense
On Obama’s brass neck
American commentator Kate Aronoff goes into detail about why it takes some nerve for Barak Obama to lecture the world on climate change
Why COP26 is a debacle
Yanis Varoufakis explains in excruciating detail why the show going on in Glasgow is a sad waste of time
COP26’s crooks and chancers
Neil MacKay does not pull any punches here in his assessment of the world’s leaders at COP26 – and nor should he
COP26 – a place for the rich
Lesley Riddoch is damning in her assessment of her experience at COP26 and the way the less powerful have been excluded
A different history of civilisation
A fascinating review of David Graeber’s new/last book which argues that our entire understanding of the progress of history is badly flawed because it ignores so many societies different from our own
Bad drafting and a devolution reality check
Craig Dalzell explains what happened with the Supreme Court rulings on two pieces of Scottish Parliament legislation is just devolution as it was designed, exposed by terrible legislation-writing
Class war is all over our TV
An interesting piece from Neil Mackay on the way that music has become banal but TV has become furiously angry at the state of the world
The damage Merkel did to Europe
Yanis Varoufakis writes an unflinching analysis of the surprisingly negative impact of Angela Merkel’s reign as Europe’s most influential politician