Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

It had a criminal record, but still allowed to continue business as usual . You know, Scotland is a huge country with a huge economy. No one would have known about it.

The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history . Let’s hope this goes ahead and be effective. Related Labour leader refuses to back striking workers

Some good news at last! More than a thousand protestors forced the Home Office to release two men they had detained in a dawn raid

People always point to the former Soviet to defend capitalism. It’s happening in Scotland Related In London

Britain McGarvey is withering about “the poverty industry”, run by the middle classes, for doing things not “ with  the community but  to  it”. Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

"Does Nicola Sturgeon really want to break with centuries of Scottish tradition by standing with the oppressor and backing an apartheid regime which is hell-bent on the oppression of Palestinians through a brutal military occupation in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem?" Scotland's First Minister backs Israel's dark arts

The Scots do not want to live longer! " Scotland is facing an unprecedented mortality crisis, according to newly released figures which reveal that, in the past three years, life expectancy has failed to rise for the first time since records were published in 1861."  — The Sunday Times

Britain May emerged as the preferred candidate of the Tory establishment. Her job, it seems, is to organize the transition to a new form of Conservative politics with less emphasis on austerity and economic competence and more on racist populism. Amid a record period of declining living standards and economic stagnation, the currency of politics today is resentment; it is never just “the economy, stupid.” Theresa May's Le Pen Moment

As Sturgeon "launches a fresh call for a referendum on independence", here is a background analysis