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

Edinburgh activists blockade Leonardo plant
Scotland / 28 January 2026
28 January 2026
The University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh
Scotland / 28 January 2026
28 January 2026
A general view of ExxonMobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran in Fife
Scotland / 28 January 2026
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
27 January 2026
Photo: Sadia Sikander & Scottish Friends of the Hunger Strikers
Scotland / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026
Coins and Scottish bank notes, April 9, 2018
Inequality / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026
Castle Stalker on Loch Linnhe at Appin, January 20, 2023
Environment / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026
Scottish Labour's Katy Clark, May 10, 2021
Scotland / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026
NHS Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
Scotland / 21 January 2026
21 January 2026
Children in a classroom
Workers' Rights / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, September 1, 2025
Scotland / 19 January 2026
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
18 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
17 January 2026

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

School children in a classroom
Scotland / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
Industrial / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) who work at STV take part in a picket outside their studios in Glasgow, after rejecting the company's latest pay offer, May 1, 2024
Scotland / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage with Malcolm Offord (left) during a press conference announcing the Scottish leader of Reform UK, at Dean Park Hotel, Kirkcaldy, January 15, 2026
Scotland / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026
Lawyer Aamer Anwar (left), with Shehu Bayoh's sister Kadi Johnson (centre) and her husband Ade Johnson (right) speak to the media outside the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, November 13, 2025
Scotland / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026
Ash Regan of the Alba Party, April 29, 2024
Scotland / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026
Climate protesters calling on the government to lead the way in ending new oil and gas projects outside The Social Hub in Glasgow, May 2, 2025
Scotland / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026
REBELS WITH A CAUSE: Protesters from the Glasgow Disability Alliance - of which Tressa Burke is chief executive officer (CEO) - demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in May 2025
Aw That / 2 January 2026
2 January 2026

MATT KERR reflects on the perversity of the honours system and why he’s proud to be a friend of Tressa Burke, who declined an MBE at a time when the government wages war on disabled people

Scottish First Minister John Swinney, December 8, 2025
Scotland / 31 December 2025
31 December 2025
Campaigners from Oceana UK protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the environmental group is taking the government to court over 31 licences for oil and gas exploration, March 26, 2025
Climate Crisis / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025
A police officers outside the Edinburgh High Court, September 7, 2021
Justice System / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025