Scottish Left Review

Issue 70: The Firm – Her Empire Strikes Back

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:02:20 +0000

To mark the Golden Jubilee, the Scottish Left Review asks how the Royal Family has managed to persuade everyone that it is somehow 'harmless' which simultaneously acting as a front for the arms industry - with a Kick Up The Tabloids special on the outcome of our Head of State poll

Comment

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:58:31 +0000

The hysteria surrounding the Royals shows a Britain with just about as much openness and balance about its head of state as Putin’s Russia

Ruling the airwaves

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:56:04 +0000

Neil Blain looks at the way the media reports the Royal Family and not only fails to find political balance but fails to find even solid news values. Ideology by omission results.

Arms and the Royal Man

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Far from being a bit of ‘harmless fun’, in fact the Royal Family is a crucial institution in promoting British militarism and supporting the UK arms trade. Kaye Stearman examines the royal role in selling guns to dictators.

End of the Kingdom

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:50:32 +0000

Paul Leinster argues that while removing the royal family would be no panacea to the UK’s problems it could at least go some way to inspiring a new sense of possibility, equality and pride in the nation

Vladimir McTavish’s KICK UP THE TABLOIDS

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:45:29 +0000

Head of State Special - with exclusive results of our opinion poll...

The Constitutional Debate: Monarchy

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:48 +0000

In every SLR between now and the referendum we’ll pick a policy issue and ask four writers from across the spectrum of constitutional opinion to argue the pros and cons of independence. In this issue we look at Monarchy.

The Silent Crisis

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:38:18 +0000

The Jimmy Reid Foundation launched its second report during the local elections (www.reidfoundation.org/library) calling for major reform of local democracy. But Robin McAlpine explains why local democracy is just the start.

Rise of the Legal Loan Sharks

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:33:11 +0000

Pay day loan companies may advertise themselves as a social service but they are quite the opposite, argues Neil Findlay. It is time that people were offered a real alternative to this legalised loan-sharking.

Prozac Nationalism

Robin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:29:35 +0000

The SNP’s encouragement of the Pharmaceutical industry’s control over mental illness in Scotland might seem to offer economic hope but it is harming our wellbeing, argues Siobhan Tolland