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Matt Kerr
PERTINENT ECHOES: Memorials to the Easter Rising patriot Tom Clarke at Clarke station in Dundalk / Pic: Eric Jones/CC
Aw That / 31 January 2026
Listening for the echoes
31 January 2026

MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used

The Oil platform Stena Spey is moved with tug boats amongst
Scotland / 30 January 2026
Lessons must be learned from previous deindustrialisation, MPs warn
30 January 2026
Willie Rennie (third left) and former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace (second left) wait for Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and Alex Cole-Hamilton to arrive at their party's Scottish launch at North Queensferry, May 27, 2024
Scotland / 30 January 2026
Scotland's first Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace, dies after surgery
30 January 2026
View of Glasgow University
Scotland / 28 January 2026
Report on Glasgow University processes 'damning indictment', say grieving family
28 January 2026
Edinburgh activists blockade Leonardo plant
Scotland / 28 January 2026
Edinburgh activists blockade Leonardo plant
28 January 2026
The University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh
Scotland / 28 January 2026
Edinburgh University returns Muscogee Nation remains
28 January 2026
A general view of ExxonMobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran in Fife
Scotland / 28 January 2026
Mossmorran task force begins work
28 January 2026
This image from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, shows the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro shadowing the MV Bella 1 in the North Atlantic Ocean during the maritime interdiction operation, January 7, 2026. Photo: Department of Defense via AP
Scotland / 27 January 2026
US 'abduction' in British waters branded an 'international scandal'
27 January 2026
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Scotland / 27 January 2026
Child poverty must be at centre of Holyrood manifestos, says charity
27 January 2026
Photo: Sadia Sikander & Scottish Friends of the Hunger Strikers
Scotland / 26 January 2026
Campaigners protest outside MoD in solidarity with hunger striker
26 January 2026
Coins and Scottish bank notes, April 9, 2018
Inequality / 26 January 2026
Scottish cities trailing UK on incomes
26 January 2026
Castle Stalker on Loch Linnhe at Appin, January 20, 2023
Environment / 26 January 2026
Holyrood urged to protect sea lochs to mitigate climate change
26 January 2026
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during his visit to the offices of the of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) in Edinburgh, January 27, 2025
NHS Crisis / 25 January 2026
First Minister points to ‘cultural problems’ at heart of hospital infections scandal
25 January 2026
Scottish Labour's Katy Clark, May 10, 2021
Scotland / 26 January 2026
Holyrood committee ‘not convinced’ on FOI proposals
26 January 2026
NHS Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
Scotland / 21 January 2026
Pressure led to hospital opening too soon, inquiry hears
21 January 2026
Children in a classroom
Workers' Rights / 19 January 2026
Less than quarter of new teachers in Scotland find permanent post
19 January 2026
A view of bank notes
Britain / 19 January 2026
Economic insecurity driving political disaffection, report confirms
19 January 2026
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, September 1, 2025
Scotland / 19 January 2026
Sarwar calls for release of Salmond files
19 January 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with Scotland's First Minister John Swinney during the Council of the Nations and Regions in Edinburgh, October 11, 2024
Scotland / 18 January 2026
Starmer will be out by Christmas, says Swinney
18 January 2026
NHS Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.
Scotland / 18 January 2026
Health board accepts probable 'causal connection' between dirty water and infections at QEUH
18 January 2026
Then Rangers directors James and Sandy Easdale during the SPFL Championship match at Palmerston Park, Dumfries, December 12, 2014
Scotland / 18 January 2026
Scottish Labour's transport commitments questioned after Easdale donation
18 January 2026
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow
Scotland / 16 January 2026
Health 'failure' at heart of drug crisis in Scottish Prisons, say MSPs
16 January 2026
Scotland / 16 January 2026
GMB warns of 'potentially devastating' social care cuits in North Ayrshire
16 January 2026
DIY POLITICS: Trade unionists, community activists, students and staff from the University of Dundee protest at job cuts to £35 million deficit, April 2025
Aw That / 17 January 2026
Politicians fiddle while the country burns
17 January 2026

It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR