Around 150 people gathered at the top of Glasgow’s Buchanan Street this afternoon, marking the first demonstration in Scotland by the emerging #BlackLivesMatter movement this side of the Atlantic. Eyebrows […]
A familiar version of events played out in Glasgow city centre this afternoon as blundering far-right fantasists the Scottish Defence League staged a demonstration against – variously – refugees, Islamism, […]
Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is known around the world for its street performance. The cobbled concourse up to the castle can be a challenge to navigate at the best of times, with its ceaseless array of […]
We’ve just passed the 97th anniversary of the Battle of George Square, when a mass strike in Glasgow was brutally attacked by the police in 1919, sparking riots across the city and […]
Scotland has a serious problem with attitudes towards violence against women. If that was ever in doubt, today saw the findings of the latest Scottish Social Attitudes Survey released, which […]
On the 48th anniversary of the Abortion Act 1967 becoming law, members of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) held their annual anti-abortion vigil in Glasgow’s George […]
A Thousand Flowers 