Bill Ramsay, SNP CND chair, examines Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson’s speech yesterday, finds his vision for the British military post-Brexit is dangerously delusional, especially in its plans to sail into the South China Sea
The UK Defence Minister delivered a speech for the ages – so riddled with imperial bombast and blood-thirsty intent that no one could fail to read it and still think Britain is one of the world’s good guys
GAVIN WILLIAMSON, UK Defence Minister, delivered a speech on Monday [11 February] that will probably go down in history. Not because it was in any way good, or coherent, or elegant. It was none of those things.
Gordon Morgan, Common Weal energy researcher, looks at the recent arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada, and finds it to be at the centre of an imperialist rivalry between the US and China over the future of big tech, as 5G is about to transform the digital communications market
Effectively combating climate change is only possible by recognising that we are already in the midst of a global catastrophe
CLIMATE CHANGE, for those who believe that scientists know something about science, traversed from theory to reality before any of us were born. That the Earth was capable of vast climactic shifts was recognised as early as the late 18th century; a hundred years later, the unwitting (or uncaring) role which humanity’s influence played in such environmental upheavals was first posited.
Angus Baird, Masters Student who lived in China for two years as an ESL teacher, writes about his visit to the Nanjing Massacre Museum, which showed him a history of the Second World War that is not understood in Western society, and which still shapes Chinese politics and international relations today
Pride organisers call out lack of local benefit and unethical production concerns in LGBT charity’s Primark partnership
RETAIL GIANT Primark’s Pride range, which will donate 20 per cent of profits to LGBT charity Stonewall UK, has come under fire after it emerged that the products will be manufactured in Turkey, China and Myanmar – all of which have poor LGBT rights records.
Scotland joins with European countries to aid Chinese renewables development
SCOTLAND’S wave and tidal technology sector is playing a key role in research and development of Chinese renewables.
EU funded Scots experts in tidal and wave energy who work at the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) are helping to build testing centres in China.
Campaigners express outrage at the spiralling costs and inefficiencies of the proposed nuclear site as companies look to rake dividends
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH SCOTLAND, has slammed the UK Government for giving the green light to the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear deal with French energy company EDF and the Chinese General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN).
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TODAY’S INSTALMENT (16 August) of the CommonSpace daily news roundup includes the US’s Guantanamo detainee transfer, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to reform bus services and the popularity of the 5th annual Moffat sheep race.
News: US makes largest single transfer under Obama of detainees from Guantanamo
With the delay on the new Hinkley Point C plant, we explain the security issues surrounding the pause within the Scottish context
THE UK Government has decided to delay giving the go ahead for a new nuclear plant, Hinkley Point C, in Somerset amid renewed concerns about cost, efficiency and overall security.
It has been suggested that Prime Minister Theresa May is more cautious of any China-UK key infrastructure deals because, as home secretary, she was privy to MI5 briefings on Chinese violations of the UK’s industrial security.