Glasgow’s unsavoury council election selection
There are less than 5 weeks to go until the most exciting election in this blog’s history. On 4th May, for the first time in 5 long and miserable years, […]
Author Archives: Juan Mac
Scottish Defence League outnumbered in Alloa
Members of the far-right Scottish Defence League (SDL) were outnumbered in Alloa yesterday by anti-fascist demonstrations. The official excuse for the SDL demo was that Clackmannanshire Council, like many local […]
WEEKLY WANKER #073: AMBER RUDD
When Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, announced the Government had abandoned plans to provide refuge for thousands of children, I was going to point to this as an example of the […]
Glasgow joins protests against the #MuslimBan
This weekend saw chaos across US airports, as Donald Trump’s Executive Order on migration came into effect. The order halts the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely bans all […]
Is the “Alternative National Park” Twitter account trolling Trump from Scotland?
It’s been a depressing week, watching Donald Trump dish out Executive Orders aimed at refashioning the US in his neo-fascist image: building walls, listing crimes carried out by immigrants, withholding […]
Coming out and kicking balls: Football’s bigotry problem goes all the way to the top
The “news” that some footballers are gay is not a shock. But yet again this week, we’ve had to deal with endless speculation and a predictable and damaging campaign to […]
Tories blocked “gay pardon law” because they only want to pardon the dead
On 23rd January 1952, Alan Turing, a man who’s now hailed as a war hero and the godfather of modern computing, had his house burgled. The Police investigation resulted in […]
