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Glasgow City Council to turn walk in the park into legal minefield

January 24, 2014by Juan Mac 25 Comments

A hundred years ago, on 26th January 1914, a bomb exploded at Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, one of many attacks on parks, gardens and artworks carried out by Suffragettes during their […]

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Weekly Wanker #024: Peter Lawwell

December 16, 2013by Admin Leave a comment

A friend who works in a restaurant in one of Glasgow’s posher suburbs tells me that Peter Lawwell, the Chief Executive of Celtic FC and a frequent customer, is quite […]

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Tom Daley and 5 things that came out since Monday

December 4, 2013by Juan Mac Leave a comment

So…Tom Daley made a video this week and everyone is talking about it.  In the inevitable melee, a lot of other stuff came out – not all of it is […]

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Enough of this scary militarism

October 1, 2013by Admin 3 Comments

By I Am Séamus Fierce Hey everyone, belated Happy Armed Forces Day! What? That was in June? Oh yeah, it was. But there’s been another one. We need to have […]

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The Olympic struggle for human rights needs more than boycotts

August 14, 2013by Juan Mac Leave a comment

As the dust settles on our own Pride antics, the outrage over the implementation of new anti-gay laws in Russia shows no sign of abating.  The laws which prohibits “propaganda […]

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Whose City: Are The Commonwealth Games Ruining Glasgow?

June 11, 2013by Admin 5 Comments

“OH I DON’T KNOW THESE BUILDINGS, I THINK I’M LOST” reads the stencilled graffiti, eerily poignant given its setting. For the building it adorns – on High Street towards the […]

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