Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: November 18, 2024
4 days ago · SINCE Primal Scream’s last record in 2016, frontman Bobby Gillespie has released the inconsolable Utopian Ashes duet album with Jehnny Beth and written his memoir Tenement Kid. Come Ahead feels something of a rebirth for the veteran Glasgow-born band. Yes, it’s very much in their soul-funk wheelhouse, and I’m not entirely sure it works ...
Scottish Greens' compromise keeps zombie care Bill alive
3 days ago · REPORTS of the death of the Scottish government’s National Care Service Bill are, as Mark Twain might have put it, an exaggeration. The Scottish government announced on Thursday that it is pausing but not abandoning its Bill. It is the latest episode in what has become Holyrood’s longest-running farce. The Bill is currently at stage two of ...
Workers face lack of access to toilets at work, unions warn
3 days ago · WORKERS are being forced to urinate into bottles and buckets and defecate into plastic bags because they have no access to toilets at work, the TUC warns. A survey of more than 4,000 workers in TUC-affiliated unions, published today, revealed the scant attention given by some employers to workers’ needs for toilet access.
John Boyd, 1934-2024 | Morning Star
5 days ago · John Boyd, 1934-2024 Tony Donaghey remembers a lifelong campaigner who fought tirelessly against the EU and for the right of nations to self-determination, with a fundamental belief in what ordinary working people could achieve by themselves
The 1660 Restoration and the lessons of defeat | Morning Star
3 days ago · It is an experience of defeat — but on a historical scale much worse has happened. Perhaps the original one in the modern era was the restoration of the monarchy in England and Wales in 1660 after the Commonwealth period from 1649. The restoration saw numbers of those who had signed the death warrant for Charles I — regicides — executed.
‘No climate justice without human rights’ | Morning Star
5 days ago · Climate protesters demand end to fossil fuels and complicity in Gaza genocide. PROTESTERS declared that “there is no climate justice without human rights” as thousands marched through London on Saturday. More than 60 organisations including Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign, gathered ...
‘I've had shoes thrown at me and paid £100 for 16-hour days’
4 days ago · A freelance fashion assistant told the survey: “I’ve had shoes thrown at me, been told certain expenses will be covered and then had the client refuse to pay them. [I’ve worked] 16-hour days during London Fashion Week for as little as £100.”.
Co-operation between Britain and China is an absolute necessity
4 days ago · Co-operation between Britain and China is an absolute necessity. THE meeting between a British prime minister and China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro today was long overdue. Reportedly, Keir Starmer wants a “consistent, respectful and pragmatic” relationship between the two countries, with an emphasis on ...
Violence and self-harming soars at notorious Brook House …
4 days ago · VIOLENCE and self-harming have soared at a notorious immigration detention centre, after a public inquiry exposed its toxic culture, inspectors warned today. HM Chief Inspector of Prisons found that the health service at Brook House centre in West Sussex is at “breaking point,” with fights and ...
As the atrocities mount in Gaza, so does Labour’s disgrace
5 days ago · As the atrocities mount in Gaza, so does Labour’s disgrace. A woman mourns over the bodies of victims from an Israeli air strike outside a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, November 17, 2024. ANOTHER DAY, another massacre or two in Gaza, another day of complicity in genocide by the Labour Party leadership. Shortly before the Morning Star went ...