To read the initial critique of Scottish pro-Palestinian activism that Kevin McKenna has had published in an increasingly desperate Glasgow Herald, is to encounter a portrait sketched in stark caricature: a world where political dissent is merely the affectation of the wealthy, and solidarity a “Brucie Bonus” for the bored bourgeoisie. Yet, history – and […]
By Gael. A Beacon in the Storm: Why a Fair Scottish Republic is a Shield Against the Rising Tide The air in these islands is thick with a disquieting hum, a low, guttural growl that speaks of fear, division, and a retreat into the suffocating embrace of a narrow, exclusionary nationalism. We hear it from […]
By Karen Orr Our public discourse is a rotting corpse. A pernicious blight infects the way we consume news and understand our society. It is the toxic marriage between the billionaire-owned press baron model and the hunger for anger clickbait. This alliance doesn’t seek to inform; it seeks to inflame, to divide, and ultimately, to […]
