Jason Hickel on how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality. To coincide with the launch of Oxfam’s Davos 2025 report, Takers, not Makers, here is ...

Labour’s Anas Sarwar said he was open to working with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ‘on a case-by-case basis’ to become First ...

Mark McDougall’s December 2024 article for The Herald covered the protests by sex workers over the proposal by Alba MSP Ash Regan to introduce the ‘Nordic Model’ of prostitution law to Scotland.

Scottish sci-fi feature film ‘2000 and leave us alone’ is the brainchild of artist and filmmaker Danny McConnell. It’s set in ...

The title comes from a famous (or used-to-be famous) book written by George Dangerfield, and published in 1935. The book ...

Just recently the appalling death count in Gaza was revised upwards. The Gazan journalist/writer Hamza Yusuf wrote: “The ...

Much has been made of the ever-shifting rightwards Labour party under Sir Keir Starmer, see the latest here (Blue Labour v ...

It wasn’t perhaps the best day for Anas Sarwar to go with a plea for jobs in Scotland, but for some reason he chose today to announce his conversion to new nuclear power in Scotland, arguing ...

There’s an interesting post by Ballot Box Scotland that has gone missing from many timelines, including, initially my own.

Before DeepSeek, the France AI Action Summit to be held in Paris from February 10 – 11, already looked like it would make ...

Paul Malgrati is a Franco-Scottish Lecturer of Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He is the ...