The coronavirus crisis: where is the British left?
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
16 June 2020
From mid-April onwards the government came under intense pressure to start lifting the lockdown it had imposed on 23 March.
RT | September 21, 2016 Military reports show a list of potentially explosive errors including brake failures, fuel leaks and overheated engines have occurred during operations to move nuclear materials by road through Scotland. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports were published by the Ferret investigative journalism team and add a further 43 incidents to […]
RT | January 28, 2016 Britain is at war in Yemen and is arming and facilitating a brutal Saudi dictatorship that is bombing innocent civilians, a growing chorus of critics has warned. The allegation that Britain is engaged in covert warfare in Yemen was first made by Scottish National Party (SNP) Westminster leader Angus Robertson […]
Arms Sales and Advice on Killing By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | January 23, 2016 Today, I want to speak about the once-in-a-generation chance we have, together, to improve the way we enhance the cause of human rights, freedom and dignity. — David Cameron. Speech on the European Court of Human Rights, January 25. […]
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Press TV – November 14, 2015 A pro-Palestinian Scottish lawmaker travelling to the occupied Palestinian territories on a parliamentary fact-finding mission has been strip-searched by Israeli forces upon arrival and refused entry. Andrew Murray, the head of the Friends of Palestine group in the Scottish National Party (SNP), was detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion […]
By Andrew Murray | Stop the War Coalition | October 19, 2015 GIVE them credit for persistence and ingenuity. The bomb-Syria bloc in the British establishment isn’t taking “no” for an answer. In 2013 they were urging war against the Syrian government over its alleged use of chemical weapons. The House of Commons defeated David […]
Press TV – August 30, 2015 The Scottish National Party (SNP) has called on the British government to set a deadline for the much-delayed report of the Iraq war inquiry. SNP said it was unacceptable that the inquiry has not reported after six years and a cost of nearly 16 million dollars. The ruling Scottish […]
‘UK Govt priorities were wrong over Libya’ Scottish National Party | July 26, 2015 The UK government spent 13 times more bombing Libya than securing peace in the years afterwards, it has been revealed. The House of Commons library has released information which shows the UK government spent around £320 million in a bombing campaign […]
By Andrew Levine | CounterPunch | April 24, 2015 In the years before he ran for President in 1968, Richard Nixon’s publicists promoted a New Nixon. It was the same old Tricky Dicky with the rough edges smoothed away. The old Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to John Kennedy in 1960; then Pat Brown […]
