Much-loved pizza restaurant reveals opening date for third Glasgow venue
Kenmure Street not Downing Street
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
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
The right wing takeover of the Labour party is now complete
The unpalatable truth for Labour supporters, that is those who adhere to the traditional values and beliefs of the Labour party as they were understood throughout the entire twentieth century, is that the Labour party they believed in is dead. It’s deader than the parrot in the famous Monty Python sketch…
Broken Britain, Scotland’s Opportunity
British politics is being remade before our eyes, the consequence of decades of failure, grotesque social inequality and the collapse of living standards. These are the conditions in which the politics of grievance and hate thrive. The far-right are predictably jubilant. Allison Pearson, writing in the Telegraph shouts (‘A new dawn has broken – and […] Source
How polls turn a lead for Yes into a lead for No
Very high to extreme risk of wildfire in place across the north of Scotland
Man told child porn he downloaded ‘destroyed’ children’s lives
Man finally sentenced for part in drugs dealing operation while a teenager in 2021
‘Public land taken’: What I saw at Donald Trump’s new Scottish golf course
Iain MacWhirter gets it wrong again
Former Herald columnist Iain MacWhirter has completed his journey from semi-detached sympathiser with Scottish independence – although he never fully abandoned his delusional hopes of a federal UK – to fully fledged cheerleader for the British establishment. MacWhirter always used to position himself as one of those “critical friends” that the…
Glasgow pub named the best in Scotland at prestigious awards
Scottish island business to be given to family for free to fight depopulation
Broken Britain: Flux, Collapse and Stasis
A snapshot of the past week on Britain’s dramatically changing politics. Reform surge in England and talk about how young people need “moral re-education” about how great the Empire was and how to “love Britain.” Labour collapses in the local elections in England and Keir Starmer’s response is to talk of doing the same […] Source