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By Neil Scott Back in 2018 when I spoke at a NECE conference about my journey from the partitioned landscapes of Ireland to the streets of Glasgow, I was thinking about how borders act as psychological -and physical – fences. I argued that our job as educators is to help young people climb over those […]
In 2014- THEY Lied. By Neil Scott A Facebook memory slid onto my timeline from April 2014. A headline before the Independence Referendum of September that year. A headline many of us seized on to show where Westminster had brought us to. It feels like a memory from a lost age, a time when we […]
By Indybag If you listen to the shouty men on the telly or the grifters on X, they’ll tell you that Reform UK is a new force coming to shake up the establishment. They talk about taking the country back and standing for the real folk against the Westminster elite. But pull back the curtain […]
By our Political Correspondent It began not with a grand manifesto or a flurry of corporate white papers, but with a humble sandwich shop in the heart of Edinburgh. In 2012, Josh Littlejohn and Alice Thompson looked at the jagged edges of our society and decided that “business as usual” was no longer an […]
Neil speaks to Cllr Jon Molyneux of the Scottish Green Party mostly about the agreed SGP & SNP 2026/27 Glasgow City Council budget, plus Flamingo Land and the Holyrood Elections. Producer & Sound Editor – Neil Anderson Ungagged is Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a new, […]
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 […]
The relationship between Donald J. Trump and Scotland, the birthplace of his mother, Mary MacLeod, has been anything but harmonious. Despite significant investments in two high-profile golf resorts—Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire and Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire—his presence has been a prolonged saga of deep-seated civic and political resistance. This opposition began as a […]
Mary Barbour, born Mary Rough in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, in 1875, stands as one of Glasgow’s most profoundly kind and courageous champions for the working class. Her life was a testament to the power of community, compassion, and tireless activism, centered on the belief that dignity was a right, not a privilege. The Heart of ‘Mrs […]
I find myself at somewhat of a loose end at the moment in light of the 2024 General Election results. We lost every single one of our central belt seats – the region that in recent years our support was strongest, and there needs to be some accounting done in light of this. I’m of […]
Richie Venton, the Trades Union Organiser of the Scottish Socialist Party on the dismal offerings from the New new Labour Party manifesto. Richie shows that Labour offer more austerity and an American privatised health system. He presents an alternative manifesto… Scottish left, pro-Indy, pro-LGBTIQA Podcasts. Writing. Campaigns. Please join us- help us create a new, […]