Matt Kerr

North Sea oil: Britain’s squandered windfall As Starmer seeks his ‘Falklands moment’ while planning £6 billion in welfare cuts, a historical pattern repeats itself — natural resources weaponised against the working class rather than used for the...

A thing wot I wrote

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Starmer’s benefit cuts will kill.

Lives will be ruined, cut short, and the poorest made poorer, and for what?

To build a war economy on foodbank queues?

Labour representatives have a choice to make:

Fight it, or own it.

In the inaugural episode of ‘Nest of Fearties’ — Skotia's new Scottish election podcast — Matt Kerr and Chris Stephens discuss this week's Scottish budget, the rise of Reform UK and much more.

🎧Listen now: bit.ly/4h2uLic

Union slams thinktank's plans to slash teacher numbers

Cutting teacher numbers would not only damage life chances, it would be a false economy that would have impacts in the long term on Scotland’s future prosperity.

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This Fri 31 Jan, 10am, we’ll be at Paisley Gilmour Street station campaigning against the cuts in opening hrs for 101 stations across Scotland.

Join us to #SaveScotRailTicketOffices! RSVP: comms@tssa.org.uk

Mid-Century Modern looks like a great exhibition in a thoroughly appropriately location. Lanarkshire was transformed by the building of modernist inspired New Towns and high rises in the decades after the Second World War.

More details here: t.co/xvn6gtIbdW

YouTube video by La Lechita Bailarina Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [Live Stop Making Sense]

So this is the place then?

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