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Medicine for men has ignored millions of women in Scotland for hundreds of years, says Karen Orr. A woman’s place in society has been a perpetual struggle, and for far too long, that struggle has been compounded by a willful ignorance of a natural biological process: menopause. The medical establishment and corporate world, products of […]
Review: Jock Mulligan Ten Days that Shook the World, by John Reed. Reds, Directed by Warren Beatty. A fine tale, John Reed tells- one we need to watch nowadays- one that shows the spirit and fire of revolution before Stalin murdered its youth. I’d’ve had a pint with Reed, no doubt, even with him being […]
Indybag: “A Modern-Day Scot’s Guide to Not Being a Muppet on the Internet“ So, you’ve finally realised that the corporate behemoths fucking hate you, but want your money and have an unending appetite for your personal data. Good fer you. You’ve heard the whispers about Signal, the one-horse race for privacy in the digital age- […]
The drums of xenophobia beat ever louder, a monotonous, hollow rhythm designed to stir up the basest fears of the British public. The demagogues, with their stale rhetoric of “taking back control” and “stopping the boats,” paint a picture of a nation under siege, a land being overrun by a faceless, foreign horde. They speak […]
By Indybag The Thatcherite and subsequent right wing political project that began in 1979 has had a singular, brutal goal: to crush the working class. This wasn’t some unfortunate byproduct of economic change; it was a deliberate, ideological war on the very fabric of communities, on people’s livelihoods, and on their collective power. The right […]
Yes campaign lessons… by Neil Scott What we knew about Kirkintilloch in 2011-14, was that it was a majority Yes for Independence town. Other towns in East Dunbartonshire- Bearsden, Milngavie, Torrance, Lenzie, Bishopbriggs- we weren’t so confident of. After our Yes group was split because of vituperative, entitled, monied Yessers trying to buy off the […]