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By Val Waldron The gang were there, cheering on the big screen appearances of themselves and their pals. At the end a massive chant of Refugees are welcome here. I always thought applause in cinemas was a bit unnecessary, but it wasn’t, I did it, for them, the community activists. I played a bit-part that […]
“The news emerging today regarding the latest victory by Scotland’s largest and most formidable teaching union is a staggering testament to the power of collective action. It is a reminder of what happens when we refuse to be silenced and instead stand together as the singular, strongest voice for educators in Scotland. ​The headline is […]
By our Education Correspondent. I have taught in schools in Ireland, England and Scotland for over thirty years (Scotland for just over 20 of those). I have worked at management level; but for the past ten years, have returned to the classroom as it is my passion. I feel the upcoming EIS industrial action on […]
Sam Charles Hamad (often known as Sam Hamad) is a Scottish-Arab writer, journalist, and historian whose work focuses on the intersection of Middle Eastern politics, Scottish nationalism, and international relations. ​Known for his incisive political commentary, Hamad frequently contributes to various publications, providing analysis on topics ranging from the Syrian conflict to the nuances of […]
By our Health Correspondent. It is a common mistake to view the current state of our people in Scotland as a series of unfortunate biographical accidents, or perhaps as a collective failure of what the nineteenth-century novelists used to call “character.” When one actually walks through these post-industrial landscapes today, it becomes difficult to avoid […]
By Jock Mulligan Ive banged on about this before… but its worth banging on about. We’ve been swindled for going on a hundred years and it is, without doubt, the most dangerous and widespread lie ever told. It is not a secret plot or a whisper in a dark alleyway but a myth that sits […]
The words of Seamus Culleton, a man from County Kilkenny held for five months in an American detention centre, should ring like a funeral bell across the Atlantic. Culleton has described his experience in the El Paso facility as being held in a modern-day concentration camp. He speaks of seventy-two people crammed into a single […]
By Jock Mulligan. A Prince has fallen and the name of a PM caught in a threesome with Epstein and Maxwell has been redacted. It tip of an iceberg of a scandal…Â In comparison, another child rape scandal is rarely spoken about. Its only nine years since the business of Sir Edward Heath and the […]
By Gael. History is often presented to us as a series of neat dates and decisions made by powerful figures in drawing rooms. Occasionally, however, something happens that defies easy categorisation: an explosion of collective energy from below that shakes the foundations of society. The 1859 Christian Revival in Ulster was one such moment… Tommy […]
By Gael The air in our communities is thick with a justifiable, burning anger. After decades of a Westminster-driven economic squeeze, people are searching for a way to strike back at a system that treats them like an afterthought. Into this landscape of genuine hardship step the charlatans of Reform UK, led by Richard Tice […]