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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
I’ve sat in draughty community halls from Easterhouse to Maryhill for thirty years, and I’ve seen some shit in my time. I’ve seen the “vanguard” cults try to hijack local strikes and the middle-class “missionaries” come into our schemes to lecture us on solidarity before jumping into a taxi back to their Bearsden bungalows and […]
By Indybag. So, the dust has settled on the Bearsden South by-election, and we’ve got the usual suspects patting themselves on the back while the rest of us stare at the numbers wondering how much longer the status quo can hold. Bearsden reform disaster The Liberal Democrats took it at Stage 5, which isn’t exactly […]
Tressell’s masterpiece doesn’t need any high-tech polish; it’s a grit-under-the-fingernails account of how the working man is conned into his own poverty. If you want to understand why the “tech-bros” and the boardroom liquidators find it so easy to pull the wool over our eyes today, you have to go back to the source. The […]
This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]
Manufacturing emotion and stealing stability. The Digital Factory of Despair – How They Farm Your Outrage By Gael There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way the modern world tries to steal your soul. We used to talk about the factory floor and the picket line; today, the factory is in your pocket, […]
Kathy O’Connor on Mamdani’s victory. It is an occupational hazard for anyone interested in American politics to become overwhelmed by rhetoric. The national conversation is so often conducted in italics and capital letters—TREASON, LOW-IQ, DEEP STATE—that the essential banality of governance, the stuff that determines whether your rent goes up or your subway runs on […]