May Scottish/British

It genuinely feels like we now live in two different countries. In one Britain, people drag themselves to work, pay eye‑watering taxes, National Insurance, council tax, energy bills, travel costs – and still stare at their bank balance wondering how they’re going to afford new shoes for the kids. In the other Britain, a growing army are parked on benefits with rising sickness and disability claims, pulling in combined payments that can beat a full‑time wage and then stacking extra perks, from cut‑price bills to leisure and lifestyle discounts, on top. The same government that says it is “cash‑strapped” and “tough choices” for services somehow finds endless billions for a welfare system its own Prime Minister now calls “unsustainable, indefensible and unfair” – but the only people expected to swallow it are the workers footing the bill. We pay. They benefit. That’s the deal. And it is ripping any sense of basic solidarity to shreds.

Forcing Scotland to stay in the Union is like having a house party where the guests don't want to be there, but you lock the door, Zack Polanski says

Your daily reminder until the Scottish elections that the SNP not only facilitate putting dangerous male predators into the women’s estate to terrorise female prisoners but are actively pusrsuing a court case so that they can be allowed to continue this practice.

Your daily reminder until the Scottish elections that the SNP not only facilitate putting dangerous male predators into the women’s estate to terrorise female prisoners but are actively pusrsuing a court case so that they can be allowed to continue this practice.