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

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

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

From childhood summers in a post-industrial village to midnight picket lines in Glasgow, the promise of ‘social mobility’ rings hollow for MATT KERR

Whether in recycling or energy policy, a deeper crisis in long-term thinking is apparent in Scotland. With the new Budget looming, MATT KERR wonders if we can move beyond shallow, headline-grabbing measures