In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader.
That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment.
Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR