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Matt Kerr
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Scotland / 7 September 2025
SNP homelessness plan branded 'an insult', as B&B spend skyrockets
7 September 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 8 September 2025
UCU members strike over Edinburgh University cuts
8 September 2025
Scotland / 5 September 2025
Forth Valley College weighs up campus sale due to 'incredibly difficult' financial situation
5 September 2025
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate / 5 September 2025
Protests to call on Starmer to block Rosebank oil field
5 September 2025
A view of injection bay areas in the Using Space at Thistle Centre Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow, July 3, 2025
Scotland / 4 September 2025
New package unveiled to tackle Scotland drug death crisis
4 September 2025
Activists in Glasgow. Photo: Jim Campbell
Scotland / 4 September 2025
Mental health practitioners urged to speak up on Gaza
4 September 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 5 September 2025
UCU re-ballot for industrial action at Dundee University
5 September 2025
Scottish First Minister John Swinney with Euan Hyslop (left) and Martha Barr (right) after giving a speech in Edinburgh on independence and Scotland's 'right to decide', September 4, 2025
Scotland / 4 September 2025
Swinney calls for referendum if SNP win a majority at Holyrood elections
4 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Edinburgh Waverley station, September 1, 2025
Scotland / 3 September 2025
Scottish government launches boycott of Israel
3 September 2025
SNP's Mairi McAllan, June 6, 2025
Scotland / 2 September 2025
SNP announce £4.9bn plan to tackle Scotland's housing emergency
2 September 2025
A Green Party supporter holding a placard
Scotland / 29 August 2025
Scottish Greens elect new leadership team
29 August 2025
SEE THE OBVIOUS: A Stand Up To Racism rally outside the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Horley, Surrey, August 23 2025
Aw That / 30 August 2025
Solidarity makes the world go round; not money, not guns, not greed
30 August 2025

Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land

(left to right) Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband and MSP Colin Smyth during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast, March 24, 2023
Scotland / 29 August 2025
Suspended Labour MSP facing charges of secret filming in Holyrood toilets
29 August 2025
Campaigners outside the Clydeport offices
Scotland / 28 August 2025
Campaign for publicly owned Ardrossan Harbour taken to Peel Ports' doorstep
28 August 2025
Flooding at Queen Victoria Hospital, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Scotland / 28 August 2025
Flood prevention funding 'not fit for purpose', warns Audit Scotland
28 August 2025
An elderly lady sitting at home in Liverpool with her electric fire on
Scotland / 28 August 2025
Scottish Pensioners’ Forum slams energy cap hike
28 August 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MSP Graham Simpson at a press conference at Macdonald Houstoun House, in Uphall, Broxburn, West Lothian, August 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
'Pathetic' Tory becomes Reform's first Holyrood member
27 August 2025
Protesters outside Barclays in Glasgow
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Barclays urged to drop Israeli bonds at Glasgow HQ
27 August 2025
A European otter
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Loch Long fish farm approval 'devastating day' for nature, say Greens
27 August 2025
Police Scotland officers seen at a demonstration in Glasgow
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Scottish Greens call for 'clarity' on policing of Palestine Action proscription
27 August 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MSP Graham Simpson at a press conference at Macdonald Houstoun House, in Uphall, Broxburn, West Lothian, August 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Farage 'extraordinarily damaging', say SNP
27 August 2025
Injured Gazans
Britain / 26 August 2025
Plaid Cymru demands sanctions on Israel
26 August 2025
A teenage girl showing signs of mental health issues (pictur
Britain / 26 August 2025
Young people in Scotland waiting years for mental health treatment
26 August 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Art workers call on Edinburgh Festival to sever ties with war profiteers
27 August 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
Scottish prison complaints system 'unacceptable'
27 August 2025
Protesters during a pro-Palestine rally in Edinburgh organised by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, calling for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Picture date: Saturday March 9, 2024
Palestine Solidarity / 24 August 2025
Unity Trust Bank facing call to unfreeze Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign funds
24 August 2025
Scotland housing crisis
Housing / 24 August 2025
Fall in completions ‘fanning flames’ of Scotland's housing crisis, say Labour
24 August 2025
HOTEL WORKERS VICTORY
Scotland / 24 August 2025
Historic victory for Govan hotel workers
24 August 2025
Members of Unite union take part in a demonstration to prote
Workers' Rights / 24 August 2025
Grangemouth workers slam Starmer's ‘empty promises’
24 August 2025
Francesca Albanese
Britain / 24 August 2025
Francesca Albanese to take part in Corbyn's Gaza Tribunal
24 August 2025
(from left) Audrey Nicoll MSP, Kirsten Horsburgh, Professor Catriona Matheson and Patricia Tracey taking part in a discussion panel on what is needed to tackle Scotland's drug deaths rate, which remains the worst in Europe, August 20, 2025
Scotland / 21 August 2025
Scotland faces 'implementation gap' in curbing drug deaths, warns expert
21 August 2025
(left to right) Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband and MSP Colin Smyth during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast, March 24, 2023
Scotland / 21 August 2025
Scottish Labour MSP facing charges over indecent images
21 August 2025
An offshore windfarm
Scotland / 21 August 2025
Fishing leaders urge ministers to stop wind power 'stampede'
21 August 2025
A view of turbines at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire
Scotland / 21 August 2025
Work now underway at 'landmark' Sanquhar II windfarm
21 August 2025
Scotland / 21 August 2025
OCS workers at Edinburgh Airport announce wave of strikes
21 August 2025
A person dripping testing solution into a Covid 19 lateral f
Scotland / 21 August 2025
Young Scots speak on Covid experiences
21 August 2025
Anti-racism counter-protesters (left) across from the demonstrators protesting against
Scotland / 19 August 2025
Politicians must offer solutions or face repeat of Falkirk far-right protests, says STUC
19 August 2025
Activist blocakde the entrace to arms firm Leonardo's Edinburgh, August 18, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 18 August 2025
Entrance to arms firm Leonardo's factory in Edinburgh blockaded
18 August 2025
Inequality / 18 August 2025
Pay booming in the boardrooms of war economy
18 August 2025
Then children's minister Maree Todd helps fill boxes alongside young people who were all involved in the new design of the baby box as its unveiled at the APS Group in Edinburgh, March 2019
Scotland / 15 August 2025
Swinney celebrates as baby boxes turn eight
15 August 2025
Supporters of Sheku Bayoh outside Capital House in Edinburgh, ahead of a two-day hearing focusing on the fairness of the conduct and procedure adopted by the inquiry chairman in meeting with the families of Sheku Bayoh, June 12, 2025
The Courts / 15 August 2025
Sheku Bayoh's family welcome judge's decision not to quit inquiry into his death in police custody
15 August 2025
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland, December 15, 2022
Communications Workers Union / 15 August 2025
Shetland posties see 114 per cent boost to allowances
15 August 2025
Unite hospitality strike
Features / 16 August 2025
Don't mourn the rise of the right – organise
16 August 2025

A man at Glasgow’s Communist Party stall wearing a James Connolly shirt proclaimed himself a communist, then denounced asylum-seekers as an ‘invading army’ — but compromising won’t help, argues MATT KERR

JD Vance protesters
Scotland / 14 August 2025
Anti-genocide protesters greet US Vice-president JD Vance in Ayrshire
14 August 2025
US vice president JD Vance, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy welcomes him to Chevening House in Kent, during his visit to Britain, August 8, 2025
Far Right / 13 August 2025
Vance ‘not welcome in Scotland,’ campaigners say
13 August 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 2023
NHS Crisis / 13 August 2025
Stroke patients in Scotland face 'Russian roulette' of treatment, says Labour
13 August 2025
Undated handout photo provided by the Ministry of Defence of vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, to go on sea trials
Environment / 12 August 2025
Government faces calls to investigate Faslane nuclear leak
12 August 2025
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate Crisis / 12 August 2025
Music artists call on PM to veto Rosebank
12 August 2025