Brian Leishman: “You cannot cut departmental budgets and lift people out of poverty and improve people’s lives.”

Andy Burnham talks a great talk about reindustrialisation. His diagnosis and his analysis of 40 years of neoliberal politics is bang on the money. Here is his opportunity not just to talk the talk, but to walk the walk.

Parts of the UK have declared drought status yet there is a political push for nuclear energy requiring huge amounts of water to operate.

If we ever want a Scottish Labour government in Holyrood again, then we must appeal to what was once a large chunk of our core vote that left us for the SNP.

We are suffering from climate crisis/extreme weather.