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People protest againt...
Protest / 11 May 2025
Glasgow pro-Palestine protest escalates after ‘mistaken’ arrest of organiser
11 May 2025
School children during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire, November 27, 2019
Education / 9 May 2025
EIS to ballot teachers on class contact time dispute
9 May 2025
Minister for Constitution and External Affairs Angus Robertson during the SNP annual national conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, September 1, 2024
Scotland / 9 May 2025
SNP and Scottish Greens call for independence in Europe
9 May 2025
Features / 9 May 2025
The brave new world that never was
9 May 2025

In his Aw That column MATT KERR looks, with dejection, at the opportunities squandered in the 80 years since Victory in Europe

Britain / 8 May 2025
H 2nd: 'Victory' as lifeline ferries stay in public hands
8 May 2025
Screen grab of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, May 7, 2025
Scotland / 8 May 2025
Labour was warned of 'catastrophic' job losses in North Sea, says Flynn
8 May 2025
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AW THAT / 25 April 2025
Remembering the dead and fighting for the living
25 April 2025

There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR

A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, E
Britain / 18 April 2025
University closures would be a ‘tragedy’, warns Edinburgh axeman
18 April 2025
Susan smith (centre left) and Marion Calder (centre right) c
Britain / 17 April 2025
NHS must adapt to Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, says equalities watchdog
17 April 2025
Susan smith (left) and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Wo
Britain / 16 April 2025
Supreme court: ‘Woman’ in equality law refers to biological women
16 April 2025
Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and S
Britain / 16 April 2025
£19,000 pay hike ‘not a rise,’ insists SNP minister
16 April 2025
The snow-covered peak of Beinn Eighe and the mountains of To
Britain / 16 April 2025
Sewage could have been pumped into Scotland's rivers, lochs and seas every 90 seconds, warn campaigners
16 April 2025
Robert Gordon University lecturers on strike
Britain / 15 April 2025
Strike to save jobs at Robert Gordon University begins
15 April 2025
Britain / 15 April 2025
Date for Hamilton by-election announced
15 April 2025
Counterdemonstrators in Paisley
Britain / 13 April 2025
Far-right front faced down in Paisley
13 April 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Celtic Renewab
Britain / 13 April 2025
Labour face demands to follow Scunthorpe with Grangemouth
13 April 2025
Aw That / 12 April 2025
The dangerous tempo of politics shifting rightward
12 April 2025
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
Then Minister for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities Mic
Britain / 11 April 2025
Fury at ‘crony ridden’ honours list
11 April 2025
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 11 April 2025
Aslef agrees pay deal at ScotRail
11 April 2025
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Britain / 9 April 2025
A third of private tenants in Scotland struggle to pay their rent
9 April 2025
The hands of an elderly woman
Britain / 9 April 2025
Twin challenges of ageing and ill-heath could drive Scottish budget gap, experts warn
9 April 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 8 April 2025
SNP Scottish government offer inflation-busting pay deal for NHS workers
8 April 2025
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow, October 16, 2013
Britain / 8 April 2025
Barlinnie in wretchedly poor state, warn inspectors
8 April 2025
Britain / 7 April 2025
University of Glasgow accused of suppressing dissent
7 April 2025
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 7 April 2025
SNP slam £500m-a-year PFI legacy
7 April 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the Scott
Britain / 7 April 2025
Sarwar's calls to leverage Trump's Scottish roots branded ‘crass, tone-deaf and stupid’
7 April 2025
Labour MP Brian Leishman, centre, at a protest to keep Grang
Britain / 4 April 2025
PM's silence on Grangemouth redundancies unacceptable, says Leishman
4 April 2025
Britain / 4 April 2025
Unite ballot for strike at University of Dundee
4 April 2025
Scottish Conservative Jamie Greene at the Scottish Parliamen
Britain / 3 April 2025
Scottish Tory resigns whip branding party ‘Reform-lite’
3 April 2025
Britain / 2 April 2025
Aberdeen City Council hide fire-and-rehire debate behind closed doors
2 April 2025
An elderly woman counting loose change
Britain / 2 April 2025
Pensioners in Scotland skipping meals to make ends meet
2 April 2025
Loch Laxford seen through the hills, close to Foindle on the
Britain / 2 April 2025
Scottish politicians urged to ‘step up’ on nature recovery
2 April 2025
Unite members take part in a day of action for Energy4All in
Britain / 1 April 2025
‘The energy industry is taking us for April fools’
1 April 2025
Energy giants rake in half a trillion pounds out of people’s misery, campaigners warn
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 31 March 2025
RMT slams ScotRail fare hike
31 March 2025
Britain / 31 March 2025
Trump labels Palestine solidarity campaigners who targeted his Turnberry golf course are ‘terrorists’
31 March 2025
Britain / 31 March 2025
GMB workers back strike over Aberdeen council fire and rehire
31 March 2025
The oil platform Stena Spey
Britain / 31 March 2025
North Sea transition must be a ‘national mission’, says taskforce
31 March 2025
A teacher and students in a classroom
Britain / 31 March 2025
Women teachers in Scotland facing more classroom violence than male colleagues, says union
31 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meeting military p
Aw That / 29 March 2025
Welfare state or warfare state?
29 March 2025
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
Pickets at Shieldhall Waterworks, Govan
Britain / 28 March 2025
Workers at Scottish Water strike for fair pay offer
28 March 2025
Britain / 28 March 2025
Council workers ready to strike over pay, warns Unison Scotland
28 March 2025
A general view of Monro Hall, a prisoner accommodation block
Britain / 27 March 2025
Families ‘fed up’ with apologies on deaths in custody demand action
27 March 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during his visit to
Britain / 27 March 2025
First Minister slams ‘utterly unacceptable’ culture at Scotland's largest health board
27 March 2025
Screen grab of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves del
Britain / 27 March 2025
SNP Scottish government will ‘look at every lever’ to avoid benefit cuts, says Robison
27 March 2025
Protesters outside 11 Downing Street as Chancellor Rachel Re
Britain / 26 March 2025
Chancellor risking ‘austerity doom loop,’ warns Scottish TUC
26 March 2025
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 26 March 2025
Nationwide protests demand ‘Welfare not Warfare’
26 March 2025
Britain / 26 March 2025
‘Abandoned’ social care workers demand ‘nothing but fairness’ before meeting with SNP ministers
26 March 2025
Doon Castle at Loch Doon, Carrick, Scotland
Britain / 26 March 2025
SNP urged to further on land reform and break up big estates
26 March 2025
Protesters at the University of Glasgow
Britain / 25 March 2025
Arms protests at University of Glasgow escalate
25 March 2025
Unite members protest outside a Pizza Hut against the compan
Britain / 25 March 2025
‘No dough, no pizza:’ Workers protest against Pizza Hut franchisee's alleged wage theft and intimidation
25 March 2025
Coins in a Saltire purse
Britain / 24 March 2025
Voluntary organisations warn they face uncertain future after years of cuts
24 March 2025
Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 24 March 2025
Social security investment needed to meet Scottish child poverty targets
24 March 2025
A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England
Britain / 24 March 2025
Thousands of hours of surgery time wasted despite soaring waiting lists, Scottish Labour says
24 March 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 23 March 2025
Labour movement must ‘get militant’ to combat the far right, Morning Star Scotland conference hears
23 March 2025
Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking to m
Britain / 21 March 2025
SNP probe: Sturgeon ‘in the clear’, Murrell facing embezzlement rap
21 March 2025
Allianz Glasgow
Britain / 21 March 2025
Palestine Action target ‘complicit’ companies in Scotland
21 March 2025
Second Cumming - Bella Caledonia 2020, by Lorna Miller
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
Eh? Aye! Definitely!
21 March 2025
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 21 March 2025
Children left ‘worried and waiting’ for treatment, medics warn
21 March 2025
Homeless people rough sleeping
Britain / 19 March 2025
Scottish Labour demands action on child homelessness
19 March 2025
A Saltire flag is flanked by Union flags flying above Whiteh
Britain / 19 March 2025
Labour welfare cuts ‘disrespect’ devolution, says SNP
19 March 2025
Britain / 19 March 2025
Glasgow students demanding end of Israel ties begin hunger strike
19 March 2025
Neil Findlay MSP speaking during the Trident debate on the t
Britain / 19 March 2025
Former MSP and leadership contender resigns from Labour
19 March 2025
A newborn baby, August 6, 2013
Britain / 19 March 2025
Deaths of newborns could have been avoided, finds inquiry
19 March 2025
MV Caledonia Isles heading towards Ardrossan
Britain / 19 March 2025
Scottish Labour force Holyrood vote on ‘ferry failures’
19 March 2025
The Spital Mosque in Aberdeen covered in white paint
Britain / 17 March 2025
Arrest made after attack on Aberdeen mosque
17 March 2025
Members and supporters of the University and College Union (
Britain / 17 March 2025
Politicians must ‘up their game’ on Scottish university crisis
17 March 2025
General X-Ray Room in the Emergency Department at the new Ro
Britain / 17 March 2025
Scottish hospitals are relying on decades-old equipment, say Scottish Labour
17 March 2025
Newly elected MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West Michael Sh
Britain / 17 March 2025
GB Energy convenes first meeting in Aberdeen
17 March 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 16 March 2025
Women waiting years for hysterectomies a ‘scandal,’ says Scottish Labour
16 March 2025
University graduates
Britain / 16 March 2025
Extra funding announced for Scotland's universities
16 March 2025
An oil platform standing amongst other rigs that have been l
Aw That / 15 March 2025
North Sea oil: Britain’s squandered windfall
15 March 2025
As Starmer seeks his ‘Falklands moment’ while planning £6 billion in welfare cuts, a historical pattern repeats itself — natural resources weaponised against the working class rather than used for their benefit, writes MATT KERR
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit Ba
Britain / 14 March 2025
Chancellor's claims of economic boost from handout to arms companies ‘nonsense’, say campaigners
14 March 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaks during a pres
Britain / 14 March 2025
Swinney slammed for Trump meeting
14 March 2025
People take part in a demonstration at Old Palace Yard in We
Britain / 14 March 2025
MSPs warned assisted dying proposals ‘potentially a lethal weapon’ for abusers
14 March 2025
Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in
Britain / 13 March 2025
Israel faces demands to release impounded fire engine
13 March 2025
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Britain / 12 March 2025
Rogue landlords ‘counting down the days’ for protection to lapse, warn Scottish Greens
12 March 2025
Then SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon with then husband Peter Murr
Britain / 12 March 2025
Sturgeon to step down from Holyrood
12 March 2025
Campaigners protest at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Ass
Britain / 12 March 2025
Climate campaigners target pension conference in Edinburgh
12 March 2025
Britain / 12 March 2025
Job cuts put existence of university at risk, warn Unite
12 March 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 11 March 2025
Crisis-ridden University of Dundee to axe 632 jobs
11 March 2025
People from Refugees For Justice outside Glasgow Sheriff Cou
Britain / 11 March 2025
Inquiry hearing into death of asylum-seeker shot by police in Glasgow after hotel stabbings gets underway
11 March 2025
Britain / 11 March 2025
New law in Scotland must not undermine domestic abuse definitions, MSPs warn
11 March 2025
A person holding an energy bill
Britain / 11 March 2025
Holyrood must unite to demand action on energy bills, say SNP
11 March 2025
Police Scotland officers in Glasgow
Britain / 11 March 2025
Drugs deaths in Scotland fall by 11%, police figures show
11 March 2025
Britain / 10 March 2025
Workers strike against University of Strathclyde pension ‘cash grab’
10 March 2025
A woman's hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard
Britain / 10 March 2025
Women in Holyrood speak out on online abuse
10 March 2025
Windmill electric turbines seen over Oxfordshire
Britain / 9 March 2025
Dalzell investment needed to reforge the steel industry, says union
9 March 2025
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 9 March 2025
SNP join anti-poverty coalition calls to scrap two-child benefit cap
9 March 2025
Students attend the teach-in at the University of Glasgow
Britain / 7 March 2025
Students launch teach-in for Palestine at Glasgow University
7 March 2025
Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray during his speech
Britain / 7 March 2025
Cut NHS Scotland waiting lists, grow the economy, says Murray
7 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves attending the Make
Britain / 7 March 2025
Plans to cut tax-breaks to savers stink, say SNP
7 March 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 6 March 2025
Watchdog calls for action, amid yawning health and social care deficits in Scotland
6 March 2025
Workers protest outside budget meeting
Britain / 5 March 2025
Aberdeen SNP and LibDems unite to back fire and rehire threat
5 March 2025
Unison members outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary, March 5, 202
Britain / 5 March 2025
NHS workers fell ‘betrayed’ by SNP health secretary, unions warn
5 March 2025
A woman holds a baby as she stands with Members of 40 Days f
Britain / 5 March 2025
40 days of ‘disgusting’ harassment begins at Scotland's abortion clinics
5 March 2025
Finance Secretary Shona Robison in the main chamber during t
Britain / 5 March 2025
Two SNP cabinet members to retire at next election
5 March 2025
Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, joins teacher
Britain / 4 March 2025
Richard Leonard to stand down from Holyrood
4 March 2025
Britain / 4 March 2025
Scottish council faces strike ballots over fire-and-rehire plans
4 March 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood
Britain / 4 March 2025
Holyrood committee investigates effectiveness of Holyrood committees
4 March 2025
DANGEROUS LIASONS: Keir Starmer and Donald Trump
Britain / 28 February 2025
Starmer warned not to sell Britain out to Trump
28 February 2025
Britain / 28 February 2025
Unite Hospitality workers serve Palestinian solidarity once more
28 February 2025
Pam Duncan-Glancy addressing a strike rally, September 2023.
Aw That / 28 February 2025
Bombs before babies: a matter of life and death
28 February 2025
Labour has announced it will spend billions on war instead of dedicating resources to saving children from poverty — they seem determined to drive those of us cursed with compassion to (assisted) suicide, writes MATT KERR
CALL: Maggie Chapman MSP
Equalities / 28 February 2025
Scottish government must act to ban conversion therpy, say Greens
28 February 2025
An undated photo provided by the Ministry of Defence of vang
Britain / 27 February 2025
Swinney bomb stance ‘confused and confusing,’ say campaigners
27 February 2025
Students studying in class at Royal High School Bath, Septem
Britain / 27 February 2025
Watchdog calls for Scottish ASL learning overhaul
27 February 2025
Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern
Britain / 27 February 2025
Workers launch boycott of BDS-listed goods at the Glasgow Film Theatre
27 February 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 26 February 2025
Swinney announces summit to tackle far-right threat
26 February 2025
People walk amid the destruction caused by the Israeli milit
Britain / 26 February 2025
Scottish government faces calls to cut funding for arms firms
26 February 2025
University of Edinburgh
Britain / 26 February 2025
Unions slam ‘academic vandalism’ of Edinburgh University cuts
26 February 2025
Solicitor Aamer Anwar (centre) alongside Skehu Bayoh's siste
Britain / 26 February 2025
Bayoh family slam decision not to broaden inquiry remit to include race
26 February 2025
Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in
Britain / 26 February 2025
Scottish budget won't reverse years of cuts, FBU warns
26 February 2025
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 25 February 2025
Scottish budget clears final Holyrood hurdle
25 February 2025
People take part in an anti-abortion protest, organised by 4
Britain / 24 February 2025
American anti-choice campaigners pledge not to break Scots buffer-zone law
24 February 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 24 February 2025
Dundee lecturers begin 15-day strike
24 February 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech duri
Britain / 23 February 2025
Starmer looks to Vikings for inspiration as gives his speech at Scottish Labour conference
23 February 2025
Members of Unite union take part in a demonstration to prote
Britain / 23 February 2025
New Grangemouth cash ‘must be the start, not the end’, say unions
23 February 2025
Delegates in the main hall at the Scottish Labour Party conf
Britain / 23 February 2025
Scottish Labour conference overwhelmingly backs ban on arms sales to Israel
23 February 2025
Britain / 23 February 2025
Aberdeen's trade unionists rally behind council workers facing fire and rehire
23 February 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the Scott
Britain / 21 February 2025
Sarwar pledges Scottish department of government efficiency
21 February 2025
Members of Unite protest outside the Scottish Labour Confere
Britain / 21 February 2025
Unite take fight for Grangemouth to Scottish Labour conference
21 February 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 21 February 2025
Unite urges SNP to deliver on pledge to cut working week for NHS workers
21 February 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar delivers a speech at Univ
Britain / 21 February 2025
Sarwar repeats claims private sector can help tackle NHS waiting lists
21 February 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to the Harland an
Britain / 19 February 2025
Swinney calls for ‘mainstream’ unity against right-wing climate crisis denial
19 February 2025
A view of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant in Grangemouth
Britain / 19 February 2025
Scottish government pledges £25m more for Grangemouth
19 February 2025
A household water tap
Britain / 18 February 2025
Unions unite for strike action at Scottish Water
18 February 2025
Britain / 17 February 2025
Workers battle fire and rehire at Aberdeen City Council
17 February 2025
WARNED: SNP's Neil Gray
Industrial / 14 February 2025
Scottish Health Secretary making little progress on cutting the working week for NHS workers, union warns
14 February 2025
DAMNING: Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie
Health Crisis / 14 February 2025
Soaring Scottish A&E waits are putting thousands of lives on the line, warn medics
14 February 2025
Britain / 14 February 2025
Union slams thinktank's plans to slash teacher numbers
14 February 2025
Gwynt y Mor, the world's 2nd largest offshore wind farm loca
Britain / 13 February 2025
Government cash ‘nowhere enough’ to deliver fair transition to green energy, unions warn
13 February 2025
People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament,
Britain / 13 February 2025
Union demands answers after University of Edinburgh principle says ‘nothing off the table’ in the quest to cut costs
13 February 2025
Lecturers and other university staff take part in a rally on
Britain / 12 February 2025
University of Strathclyde workers back strike to fend off pensions raid
12 February 2025
A man sells bread under the ruin of his bakery destroyed by
Britain / 12 February 2025
Gaza slaughter leaves former FM Humza Yousaf's family in ‘hell on Earth’
12 February 2025
A teenage girl with her head in her hands
Britain / 11 February 2025
Health board launches probes into Skye House cruelty allegations
11 February 2025
Members of the Unite union march and rally at the Scottish P
Britain / 11 February 2025
Unite slams leaders' ‘radio silence’ on Grangemouth
11 February 2025
by Matt Kerr Scotland reporter
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar delivers a speech at Univ
Britain / 11 February 2025
Sarwar calls for overhaul of university funding
11 February 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) un
Britain / 11 February 2025
Scottish Greens U-turn on teacher cuts as strike looms
11 February 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on patrol with officers from We
Britain / 10 February 2025
Labour's immigration crackdown plans set a ‘dangerous precedent,’ campaigners warn
10 February 2025
A sign near a homeless person and their dog on the Royal Mil
Britain / 9 February 2025
SNP housing minister faces calls to resign as rough sleeping soars
9 February 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) un
Britain / 9 February 2025
Glasgow teachers to strike against job cuts on budget day
9 February 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during First Ministe
Britain / 7 February 2025
Swinney accused of defending ‘ugly inequality’
7 February 2025
Alloa and Grangemouth MP Brian Leishman
Britain / 7 February 2025
MPs demand ‘decisive action’ on Grangemouth closure
7 February 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to Brechfa Forest
Britain / 7 February 2025
GB Energy branded a ‘sham’ in heated Holyrood exchanges
7 February 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) un
Britain / 6 February 2025
Teaching dispute ‘inevitable,’ warns EIS
6 February 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to the Harland an
Britain / 6 February 2025
Swinney welcomes deal with Spain to save shipbuilder Harland and Wolff
6 February 2025
Members of the Unite union march and rally at the Scottish P
Britain / 5 February 2025
Redundancy notices issued at Grangemouth
5 February 2025
Homeless people rough sleeping
Britain / 5 February 2025
Numbers of children in temporary accommodation hits new high
5 February 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during his visit to
Britain / 5 February 2025
Waits for heart appointments in Scotland soar to a record high
5 February 2025
Finance Secretary Shona Robison alongside First Minister Joh
Britain / 4 February 2025
Scottish budget clears first hurdle with help from Greens, Lib Dems and Alba
4 February 2025
Police Scotland officers in Glasgow
Britain / 4 February 2025
Police Scotland abandon attempt to block widening of Sheku Bayoh inquiry
4 February 2025
A man looks through an estate agent's window in Glasgow, Sco
Britain / 3 February 2025
Scottish council encourages landlordism to tackle housing crisis
3 February 2025
Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison, December 4, 2024
Britain / 3 February 2025
Labour on ‘political sidelines’ ahead of crunch Scottish budget vote, say SNP
3 February 2025
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 31 January 2025
ScotRail fares up 3.8 per cent from April
31 January 2025
Lorna Slater during the Scottish Green Party's General Elect
Britain / 31 January 2025
Scotland's dropped climate targets ‘a fiction’, says former minister
31 January 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 31 January 2025
University of Dundee lecturers vote to strike
31 January 2025
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow
Britain / 30 January 2025
Prison officers call on Scottish Labour MPs to back their right to strike
30 January 2025
Vehicles travel along the M4 motorway near Bristol
Britain / 30 January 2025
Scottish climate target at risk from ‘lack of leadership’, auditors say
30 January 2025
An oil rig is moved with tug boats down the Cromarty Firth n
Britain / 30 January 2025
Judge upholds challenge to new North Sea oil and gas licences
30 January 2025
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes at the SNP Annual National
Britain / 28 January 2025
Forbes accused of hypocrisy as she calls on councils to curb tax rises
28 January 2025
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 28 January 2025
Scottish Greens and Liberal Democrats to back SNP budget
28 January 2025
A collection of water bills
Britain / 28 January 2025
Scottish water bills to rise by 9.9 per cent
28 January 2025
Britain / 28 January 2025
Drugs death in Scotland fall by 10 per cent in a quarter
28 January 2025
Storm damage in Queens Park, Glasgow, January 25, 2025
Britain / 28 January 2025
Workers ‘put in harm’s way’ during Storm Eowyn, says STUC
28 January 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners a
Britain / 27 January 2025
Campaigners urge MPs to back WASPI compensation Bill
27 January 2025
Britain / 27 January 2025
NHS workers and patients nee more than Swinney's ‘jam tomorrow’, union warns
27 January 2025
Members of the Unite, Unison and GMB unions on the picket li
Britain / 27 January 2025
Scottish Water workers to be balloted for industrial action
27 January 2025
First Minister John Swinney during his visit to NHS 24 call
Britain / 27 January 2025
Swinney promises ‘new course’ for NHS, one that is ‘better than it is now’
27 January 2025
For sale signs outside homes in a street in Loanhead near Ed
Britain / 26 January 2025
Labour brand Scottish government's housing pledge a ‘sham’
26 January 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinb
Britain / 24 January 2025
New Holyrood boundaries put to the public
24 January 2025
Britain / 24 January 2025
Scottish government ditches National Care Service proposals
24 January 2025
Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray, September 17, 2024
Britain / 23 January 2025
Scottish First Minister defends embattled health secretary at FMQs
23 January 2025
Members of the Unite union march and rally at the Scottish P
Britain / 23 January 2025
Grangemouth is how not to do a transition, expert warns MPs
23 January 2025
BrewDog founder James Watt at his home in London, June 17, 2
Britain / 23 January 2025
Brewdog owner slammed for ditching living wage for workers while ‘wasting’ money on ‘vapid’ reality TV
23 January 2025
An oil platform standing amongst other rigs that have been l
Britain / 22 January 2025
Skills passport for oil and gas workers launched
22 January 2025
A Saltire flag is flanked by Union flags flying above Whiteh
Britain / 22 January 2025
Reform Internal Market act or face ‘years of inertia’, say campaigners
22 January 2025
First Minister John Swinney, January 6, 2025
Britain / 22 January 2025
Swinney demands migration policy for Scotland
22 January 2025
Britain / 22 January 2025
Scottish Greens call for veto on Loch Long industrial fish farm
22 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 20 January 2025
Scottish NHS spent over £900m on temps in five years
20 January 2025
Activists march in Glasgow
Britain / 19 January 2025
Activists in Scotland demand that the ceasefire be the first step to freedom and justice for Palestinians
19 January 2025
Finance Secretary Shona Robison, December 4, 2024
Britain / 19 January 2025
Scotland ‘punished’ for having larger public sector, claims Robison
19 January 2025
A woman uses a laptop as she holds a bank card
Britain / 19 January 2025
Scotland facing fraud epidemic, warns Scottish Labour
19 January 2025
MEMORY LANE: Ardrossan Harbour lighthouse
Aw That / 18 January 2025
A paradise lost in Ardrossan’s empty harbour
18 January 2025
Mismanagement, privatisation and EU rules have strangled vital ferry services, leaving Scotland’s island communities stranded and the once-bustling ports of my youth in what feels like terminal decline, laments MATT KERR
A general view of a Salmon farm at Red Bay in Co Antrim
Britain / 17 January 2025
MSPs slam lack of progress in cleaning up salmon industry
17 January 2025
Polmont Young Offenders Institute
Britain / 17 January 2025
Negligence at Polmont served as a ‘death sentence’
17 January 2025
The sun rising behind fishing boats on the beach in Dungenes
Britain / 17 January 2025
New Scottish government marine plan ‘a backward step’ say campaigners
17 January 2025
The oil platform Stena Spey
Britain / 16 January 2025
More than half of MSPs back Unite's ‘No ban without a Plan’ campaign
16 January 2025
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Britain / 15 January 2025
Scottish ministers face calls for a national plan on less survivable cancers
15 January 2025
An oil platform standing amongst other rigs that have been l
Britain / 14 January 2025
Calls for ‘full-throated’ support for new oil and gas branded ‘out of step’
14 January 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during First Minister's Q
Britain / 14 January 2025
Scottish Labour must ‘take a stand’ on welfare cuts, say Greens
14 January 2025
TSSA activists at Dalmarnock station in Glasgow
Britain / 14 January 2025
TSSA launch a week of action on ticket office cuts
14 January 2025
Britain / 13 January 2025
Palestine Action activists target Parker Hannifin offices
13 January 2025
The Glen Sannox ferry journeys from Brodick on Isle of Arran
Britain / 13 January 2025
CalMac's Glen Sannox finally enters service
13 January 2025