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August 13, 2020

Unemployment is not a price worth paying

  • by chris

The jobless total is on the rise – and unemployment will have a far greater impact than COVID on our country’s people if joblessness continues to increase. Frank McKenna warns of the consequences of our semi-zombified state in his latest Downtown blog.

Back of the class, Mr Starmer

Jim’s handing out the dunces hats to all politicians this week. He agrees the exam question posed by the pandemic was difficult, but thinks it could have been handled better. He also looks at the row’s impact on Scottish politics; and welcomes the choice of Kamala Harris as the Democrats vice-Presidential candidate.