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By Peter McColl The name ‘Belfast’ is an anglicised form of Béal Feirste, which means ‘the crossing of the River Farset’. The river after which the city is named isn’t one that many people have seen. It’s buried under the High Street, in a culvert,. And that’s appropriate, because much of what Belfast is about […]
By Belfast based artist and designer, Sara O’Neill Our home has been beamed around the world this week. And as so often when the global spotlight falls upon us, it’s for a scundering reason. Racist scumbags rioting, burning homes & wrecking their own communities (Not the brightest. Obviously.) For most of this year I’ve been […]
By Amy McIntyre We know our history. The Irish were blamed for problems they didn’t cause. They fled “famine”, occupation, persecution & poverty, only to face signs reading: “No Blacks. No Dogs. No Irish.” Don’t repeat that. The ruling class always need a scapegoat. Yesterday it was the Irish, Catholics, Mods, Pakistanis, single mothers, “benefit […]
Democracy is on it’s deathbed. By our Political Correspondent. The impulse to silence dissent is becoming a fixture of our political culture. When voices challenge the established consensus, the instinct is often to slam the door rather than engage with the argument. The recent restriction to the entry of commentators like Hasan Piker and Cenk […]
By Neil Scott I took this of the brilliant activist Violet Fox 11 years ago- I recorded an interview with Violet for a podcast. This was a time I was doing my bit to widen the SSP’s contact with important activism across Scotland- support without controlling- something I admired about the idea of the SSP- […]
The political entity currently known as Reform UK presents itself as a radical departure from the established order, yet a closer inspection reveals it to be a rebranding of the most regressive elements of British political history. It is the ideological heir to the hard-right Thatcherism of the 1980s and the exclusionary nationalism of Enoch […]
By Indybag The career of Tommy Sheridan is a study in how to torch your own legacy. We’ve seen him rise from a cell during the anti-poll tax riots to the heights of the Scottish Parliament, only to end up as a perennial figure of controversy. Once known for his oratorical fire and an apparently […]
The collapse of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’ in Scotland was perhaps as predictable as a North Sea haar, yet its demise offers a brutal autopsy of the perennial tensions between an 18th Century London-centric idealism and the reality of Scottish political autonomy. The recent mass resignation of the Scottish interim executive, spearheaded by figures like […]
Sarwar’s Dodgy Deal By our Political Correspondent. The Scottish Leaders’ Debate on April 14, 2026, was no theatre of ideas. It was a political necropsy performed in real-time under the cold glare of the studio lights. Amidst the usual tawdry point-scoring and the SNP’s increasingly desperate defensive crouch, a single, radioactive allegation from Malcolm Offord […]
It wasn’t quite the reaction I expected to my comment; So, Thatcher’s deid at last. The polite response that evening of 8th April 2013 could be summed up by a gently dismissive nod and patronising grimace. It told me what I already knew, that the death of this elderly person in the advanced […]