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Healthcare / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025
Britain / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025
Justice System / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025
A view of turbines at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire
Britain / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

by Matt Kerr
Scotland reporter

Models of a man and woman stand on a pile of coins and bank
Britain / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025
Parking ticket
Britain / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025
27/04/20 of the sun rising behind a redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Fife
Workers' Rights / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 18, 2023
Healthcare / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Britain / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025
UNLIKELY RIVALS: Blairite centrist Lucy Powell (left) is an enemy of circumstance to Keir Starmer in her bid for the Labour deputy leadership
Aw That / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR

The oil platform Stena Spey is moved with tugboats amongst other rigs that have been left in the Cromarty Firth near Invergordon in the Highlands of Scotland
Scotland / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025
Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves with Prudence one of the stills which was named after a Gordon Brown speech as Chancellor during a visit to the Sipsmith Distillery in Chiswick West London, October 9, 2025
Scotland / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025
Actor Brian Cox at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, celebrating the opening of the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, July 31, 2025
Scotland / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of Trump's second state visit to Britain, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025
UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university budget, September 8, 2025
Workers' Rights / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh
Scotland / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025
Finance Secretary Shona Robison, February 4, 2025
Scotland / 17 October 2025
17 October 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
Scotland / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025
A Capita sign outside their offices in Bournemouth, Dorset
Britain / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Bags of mail pushed onto vans at the York Royal mail sorting Office
Britain / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025
The oil platform Stena Spey is moved with tugboats amongst o
Scotland / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025
First Minister John Swinney during the second day of the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), October 12, 2025
Scotland / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
Deputy First Minister of Scotland Kate Forbes during the third day at the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), October 13, 2025
Scotland / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
School children in a classroom
Scotland / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
First Minister John Swinney moves the motion that the 2026 Scottish Parliament election will be fought by the SNP on a clear platform of national independence during the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), October 11, 2025
Scotland / 12 October 2025
12 October 2025
President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington
Aw That / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR

The Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood in Edinburgh
Scotland / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025
 Coins and Scottish bank notes
Scotland / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
Coins in a Saltire purse
Scotland / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
People welcome a number of activists who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla that attempted to sail to Gaza after they were released from Israeli prison, at Tunis–Carthage International Airport, October 5, 2025, in Tunis, Tunisia
Britain / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025

Fears grow for flotilla activist Yvonne Ridley, abducted by Israeli soldiers and held in famous Ktzi'ot prison camp

A car drives through floodwater in Galway, October 3, 2025
Scotland / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025
First Minister John Swinney during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025
Credit cards from Santander, Barclaycard, American Express and HSBC
Climate / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittar (centre), with Lynn Henderson and Dave Watson of the Jimmy Reid Foundation. Photo: Sharon Thomas
Scotland / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025
A view of houses across Dover in Kent
Scotland / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025
Police officers with demonstrators as people take part in a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest organised by Defend our Juries in Parliament Square in London, September 6, 2025
Britain / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025
Model houses on a pile of coins and bank notes
Scotland / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025
Raeda Alian, who was evacuated from Gaza City, wipes a tear as she sits next to her belongings after arriving at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, an area that Israel has designated as a ‘safe zone’, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 23, 2025
Middle East / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn calls for a Gaza inquiry during a march for Palestine in central London, May 21 2025
Aw That / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Members of Scotland's tenants' union Living Rent organised a protest outside the Edinburgh City Council Chamber to highlight concerns about the scarcity of housing, January 2018
Scotland / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow
Scotland / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh
Scotland / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Scotland / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025
Protesters outside AXA offices. Photo: Extinction Rebellion Scotland
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
SNP Parliamentary Business Minister Jamie Hepburn speaks to the media after Douglas Ross accused the Scottish Government minister of assaulting and verbally abusing him as he left the chamber in Holyrood at the Scottish Parliament, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
Money stacked on top of a council tax bill
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
A view of bank notes
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Former First Minister Humza Yousaf arrives for a debate on free school meals at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 11, 2024
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
Clydebank TUC makes the case for Welfare Not Warfare
Scotland / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
Children playing on swings in a park near Ashford, Kent
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
A tanker pumping out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
Loch Laxford seen through the hills, close to Foindle on the north-west coast
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney addresses the workforce during a to visit Alexander Dennis in Larbert to meet staff and discuss the government's work with partners to secure the future of the company's manufacturing in Scotland, September 15, 2025
Transport / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Passengers onboard a Calmac ferry
Workers' Rights / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Injection bay areas in the Using Space at The Thistle drugs consumption room at the NHS Enhanced Drug Treatment Facility at Hunter Street Health Centre in Glasgow, January 9, 2025
Healthcare / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, calling for an end to cuts imposed on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service over the last 10 years, October 26, 2023
Public Services / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, August 30, 2025
Scotland / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London
Scotland / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
An elderly woman's hands
Scotland / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People look at ‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ on display during a preview of the CC Land: The Wonder of Art exhibition in the refurbished Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London
Culture / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
House of Commons House of Commons handout photo issued of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons, London, during Prime Minister's Questions, September 10, 2025
Aw That / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR

NHS workers take part in a march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023
NHS Crisis / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Septemner 11, 2025, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders from Gaza City
Gaza Genocide / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Scotland / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union take part in a rally, Dunfermline, Fife, February 22, 2023
Scotland / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025