Plus ça change
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Another Scottish Parliament election, and it's *plus ça change*. The phrase
coined by the French critic, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849, suggests
th...
Scottish Parliament election manifestos
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UCU Scotland’s manifesto for the Scottish Parliament elections was
published in March and has formed the basis of our contact with the
parties’ education s...
Nelson Mandela Memorial – Another Milestone!
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The week of the 6th of March, saw the early construction of the foundations
for the memorial. Organised by our principal contractor, Sir Robert
McAlpine,...
Labour needs to get off X. Now.
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Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall, a former Twitter addict, says that
while he completely understands the motivation of staying on a platform
where vita...
Gaza genocide - we will never look away
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*As we do every Saturday, citizens of the North East turned out to protest
the genocide in Gaza and to demand an end to the UK government complicity
in i...
Shetland, far away.
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On a short visit to Shetland with the Just Transition Commission I learned
a lot about the northern most islands of Scotland. This is just a short
piece on...
Archive Hour - Exposed Wiring.
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There is Scottish Labour Leadership vacancy (only the one hundred and
thirty fifth of my lifetime). That prompted someone to remind me that I'd
put this to...
Housing and the Pandemic
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Social housing is an essential service. But you’ll find little mention of
its role during the pandemic outside of the world of housing professionals.
Yet t...
On Not Watching Panorama
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Won’t be watching Panorama tonight (despite the kind offer by BBC Scotland
to go on and talk about it afterwards ). Partly, I've got stuff on, but its
also...
SEC Report – September 2018
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A relative short and sweet SEC meeting today, not just because it was my
last! Richard reported on his summer tour across Scotland and the issues
raised wi...
A new deal for women in engineering
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The Second World War saw an influx of women into male dominated professions
such as engineering. So much so, that in 1943 the Amalgamated Engineering
U...