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Scots firm which donated to the Tories won Covid PPE contracts


“The people of Scotland deserve so much better.”
The latest £14m Globus (Shetland) award included £10,328,396.22 for respirators and £3,893,200 for eye protection.
A further £423,464.17 contract was made to the Scottish firm for 6N nitrile examination gloves and was also confirmed 14 months after it was awarded.
A £93,709,400 contract was given to Globus (Shetland) in July, 2020 for the supply of FFP3 face masks which runs to September, this year - which was confirmed four months after it was agreed.
There is no suggestion of impropriety on the part of either company or their directors.
Its sister company Dumfriesshire-based Alpha Solway was also awarded a £53m contract by the Scottish Government for PPE, enabling it to expand and create more than 200 jobs in Annan, Dumfriesshire. ....

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The soft underbelly of British politics


Paul Mason
Last week’s by-election in Batley & Spen, an old Yorkshire manufacturing town with a Labour tradition and a large postwar south-Asian Muslim population, has opened up a new chapter in post-Brexit politics.
With Labour trailing badly behind a Conservative government, seemingly untouchable despite its lies and corruption, the script seemed clear. The party would lose in a straight fight with the Tories, Keir Starmer would face a challenge to his leadership of Labour and the disintegration of British social democracy would accelerate.
It didn’t quite turn out that way. Labour won just by 323 votes. Starmer emerged rejuvenated and all talk of a leadership challenge evaporated. And the government remains mired in personal and financial scandals. ....

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