PRESTWICK Airport has announced the first-ever direct scheduled freighter services between China and Scotland. Source

Mike Small looks to the historical precedents of anti-imperialist struggles for lessons in resisting Israeli atrocities. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet saying: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when […] Source

The Paradox of Portobello: community action soars, community council collapses by Justin Kenrick and Eva Schonveld. Community action is infectious: Membership of Action Porty has trebled to over 1,400 in a month. Vibrant community venues stretch along the High Street – from Bellfield, Tribe Porty, Tills, the Town Hall, to the Wash House, Porty Bookshop, […] Source

A ban on phones in schools will be enforced at the start of the next term. …

A 39-year-old has been given unpaid work after a leg-fracturing assault. …

A man caught drink driving while over five times the legal limit has been banned from the roads. …

Almost 50 homes could be built on part of the former Glasgow Garden Festival site, after plans for offices were dropped due to a fall in demand … Source

An optical boutique has decided to change its name after being contacted by lawyers for The Sex Pistols. Source

THE Glen Rosa ferry being built at the nationalised Ferguson Marine shipyard has been pushed back again – with cost estimates also revised upwards … Source

Footwear enthusiasts from as far as Canada and the United States have travelled to Scotland to have their most treasured boots repaired by a Dunfermline cobbler. Source

A beloved pizza restaurant will open its third venue in Glasgow this month. Source

Four years ago, on May 13, 2021, Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they had been detained. “…a nation that walks forward together” you could say. In the face of a surround-sound of vicious […] Source

John Couzin, in Memoriam for Stasia Rice. When we talk about the Spirit of Revolt archive we’re talking about history, our history, and our history is radical history. It is a marginalised and often suppressed history. I mean by that that it is kept from us. There is no conspiracy. We can speak of it […] Source