“What would it look like if we decided that our economy was no longer to be rigged in favour of folk who have benefited from its collapse?”
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US President Donald Trump has told Minneapolis protestors against the police killing of George Floyd that he will send in the National Guard and “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. The threat to gun down US citizens comes after the city was seized by protest, with clashes between the police and protestors.
Trump tells Minneapolis protesters he is sending National Guard for “shooting”
The UK has joined the US, Australia and Canada in condemning the Chinese state for imposing a new security law in Hong Kong during the pandemic. The special administrative area in China was once a colony of the British Empire and the statement declared that the four powers have a “significant and long-standing stake” in […]
UK and allies condemn China over Hong Kong security law
Four in five Scottish engineering firms have warned they will cut jobs due to the economic slowdown. The warning comes as part of industry lobbying into speading up the end of lockdown. Industry bosses want Scotland to end its lockdown in tandem with England. (Herald)
Scottish engineering firms warn of job losses
The Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has warned the costs of tackling the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences far outweigh central UK Government funding for Scotland. She has previously complained that a pledged £60 million in business assistance for Scottish business never materialised. (Herald)
Scottish Finance Secretary warns of limits of Coronavirus funds
Prime Minister Boris Johnsons’s special adviser Dominic Cummings may have broken lockdown rules in a “minor breach” according to Durham police. The Number 10 strategist has been at the heart of a controversy since last week after it was revealed he travelled from London to the North East town at the height of lockdown. (The […]
Durham police say Cummings may have breached lockdown
We spoke to James McEnaney following Sturgeon’s announcement that schools are set to open from the 11th of August, to understand how the lockdown has impacted students and what the reopening of schools will look like in this time of crisis.
Scotland’s schools are readying to reopen, but what is the new normal for education?
“The Scottish independence movement emerged precisely as a response to war, economic crisis, environmental decline, national, local and global inequalities. It identifies the British state as a road block to sound governance and a serious orientation on the social, economic and geopolitical problems we face.”
Why independence won’t go away
“Questions remain about the capacity of the state to deal adequately with massive social programmes including wholescale testing and tracing and, perhaps one day, vaccination. Why has it taken this long to reach the point of a testing system?”
Test and trace: There’s still a long way to go
“I didn’t get into politics to make bureaucrats more powerful or hand more control to politicians. I’m here to get power back to people, to communities, to tenants and passengers and patients and students and frontline staff. We need the state to make it happen, but then we need them to take their hands off.”
Robin McAlpine: Progress needs the state, but the state must progress
“People will remember the mad-dash scramble to “fudge” the UK figures to meet the target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April. Less well advertised is that while the UK’s testing figures are still less than spectacular, they have overtaken Scotland’s and have remained consistently higher since late April and for the entire month of May.”
Testing failures mean Scotland may be sleepwalking into a new crisis
“On Monday, thousands turned out in Quito and other cities, again with face masks and a careful distance between each protester. In fact, it was the police who did not respect social distancing, as they charged protesters in the historic centre of Quito, using tear gas and truncheons.”
Iain Bruce: For lessons in protest during the pandemic, look to Latin America
New figures for the first quarter of 2020 have revealed an astonishing collapse in the profitability of shale gas extracting (fracking) firms in the US.