Of black clouds and silver linings?
Stephen Smellie argues COP26 delivered on the low expectations of it but progress was made in building a bigger and
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Stephen Smellie
Uniting for change in UNISON?
Stephen Smellie gives personal reflections on UNISON’s newly elected national leadership. Glaswegian Christina McAnea was elected as general secretary of
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No touchy Feeley as social care still to be tied to the market
Stephen Smellie says of the Feeley report it’s a case of several steps forward and massive one back. The broken
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All change at the top of the big unions?
Stephen Smellie surveys the field and asks whether change at the top will presage change beneath. Over the next 18
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Crisis within a crisis: the failure of private sector care
Stephen Smellie charts a way out of the crisis in both short- and medium-terms Thousands have died in care homes
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On the union frontline in a pandemic
Stephen Smellie recounts the pressures and learning curve to become a health and safety expert I am not a frontline
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Can independence be built on trade union principles?
Stephen Smellie lay out the critical questions the left needs to be asking of the independence option A second independence
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