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By Damien Donnelly A great deal of political discourse involves calling out hypocrisy and there’s no doubt that this is important, as long as it’s rooted in fact. It would be ludicrous for us not to point out that Nigel Farage’s wife is an immigrant and two of his children hold dual citizenship, with German […]
Jock Mulligan on ’70’s Sci-fi masterpieces we ignore at our peril” I have been sittin’ here in the house with Dave lashing against the glass and the wind howling like a banshee through the eaves, for these November to April storms seem to have become the new normal as the world is titim-ing toward the […]
by our Political Correspondent There is a particular kind of chill that settles over the soul when the machinery of war and the ledgers of a private healthcare system begin to merge. We are talking about the commodification of our most intimate secrets, the records of our births, our cancers, and our mental collapses, and […]
By feminist reviewer. 📹 Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary “Inside the Manosphere” is being praised for some for shining a light on a disturbing current issue. I watched it. I wasn’t reassured. I was troubled. And not just by the men in it. 👎🏼 It adds nothing new to what journalists, academics, and women’s organisations […]
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 […]
Since the high point of 2014, the political landscape in Scotland has taken a fucking battering. We started as a grassroots, left-leaning movement for a better country, but a decade later we’re looking at a fragmented mess where some folk are more interested in reactionary “culture wars” than actually fixing the politucally created poverty our […]
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… 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 […]