“The classless euphoria of ‘Clap for Carers’ is rapidly giving way to class tension. Some of it is starting to rise to the level of real conflict.”
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“News addicts, activists and idealists tend to be confounded by the apparently slow recognition of a major social and economic crises in the wider public. But taking a step back from the frenetic cycle of events makes perfect sense of the phenomenon.”
Analysis: It’s too early to know the meaning of 2020
“The final consummation of Brexit will never arrive, and whatever magic it was supposed to work will not manifest, so that a real politics of independence stressing democratic rights and egalitarian reform must.”
David Jamieson: We should prepare for the never-ending Brexit story
“It is clear the UK Government has lost control over the virus. This will only intensify its growing conflicts with regional and national governments, and the wider public at a time when fatigue and frustration begin to mount.”
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“Problems like those posed by the GC do not go away on their own. They are either addressed directly and completely, or they go septic and rot, bleeding weakness across the whole body of the independence argument. The time to lance the rancid bubo has come.”
David Jamieson: The first establishment blows against Sterlingisation are landing, and cannot be ignored
“The defence of the Union may make strange bedfellow, but in this chaotic world many causes do. What the British state has proved masterful in time and again is uniting sections of the political right and left to the work of reaction.”
Are we witnessing the beginning of a Unionist counter-offensive?
“When you make the gun, put the bullet in the chamber, then point the barrel while another man pulls the trigger, who is responsible for the shooting? By any reasonable definition the UK is at war with the people of Yemen.”
David Jamieson: As Covid-19 heaps more dead in Yemen, its time for the UK to stop aiding carnage
“British politics is a sealed world of class privileged, containing the nexus of housing, financial and media connexions which, if we were at the other end of Europe, would be called the British oligarchy, or Apparat.”