Sheila Gilmore Articles

Donald Trump rails against the ‘establishment’. On the Today programme on 10 November so too did Yanis Varoufakis. The specific debate was on international trade agreements. ‘Took your jobs away’ cries Trump. In Europe a huge campaign of the Left has been against...

On ‘welfare ' Labour is struggling to find the right policy and language. In the last parliament we spent a lot of time attacking the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government's policies, through debates on the welfare reform bill, opposition led debates, and...

Hospital waiting lists up, college places cut, social care under strain, police cars held together by duct tape. Just a few stories in the Scottish media recently. And what has the reaction of the Scottish government been? A classic deflection tactic – let's talk...

In the 2015 general election in Scotland we were lambasted as 'red Tories'. It's a bitter irony, then, to be beaten by the real 'blue Tories', who, it had been alleged were toxic and 'dead' in Scotland. First though there is some good news to help point the way...