by John Finnie MSP, featured in the latest edition of Perspectives. Copies are now available at Word Power, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Ever since being asked to write an article, a couple of months ago, on Scotland’s now two year old police…
Author: MaggieChapman
The Children's Panel, Looked-After Children, Burns and Labour Leadership contest: Joan McAlpine's Perspectives Diary
by Joan McAlpine The children’s panel system is being reformed, and as a member of the education committee which will scrutinise some of the secondary legislation, I have been invited to observe a panel in action. It’s a system…
Working class disgrace and the neoliberal proletaroid
by Alex Law, published in the current edition of Perspectives. Review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonizaton of the Working Class, Verso, 2011. Not so long ago to be working class in Britain was a badge of honour, a source…