Trust, Politics, and Power: The BBC at a Crossroads
by Paul Holleran, former NUJ Scottish Organiser A THRIVING, DIVERSE broadcasting and press media — not manipulated by the rich and powerful — is essential to democracy in ...
Culture
Tenementals’ radical debut album ‘conjures a constellation of possibilities’
Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) by The Tenementals, LP/CD/digital album on Strength In Numbers Records. (Photo: Julia Bauer) Album review by Malcolm McGonigle • Pop music ...
‘Important social issues are handled with insight and compassion…’
The Deadly Promise by Gilou Bareau. Published by Folrose Book review by Elizabeth Stitt · The Deadly Promise is so much more than an absorbing read — which it is. ...
Appetite for deconstruction
Album review: The Ultra Vivid Lament Manic Street Preachers Released on 10 September Sony/Columbia ★★★★ by Simon Whittle · “Words wage war, meanings being ...
Jara remembered in song
Album Review: Even In Exile by James Dean Bradfield. Released 14 August on MontyRay LP/CD/digital. ★★★★★ by Simon Whittle · Victor Jara, the Chilean musician, ...
Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event ...
Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial
The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks ...
All that is solid melts into thin air
Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in ...
Glam politicos mark 50 years of QMU
by Voice Reporter • Glam provocateurs Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues will mark 50 years of the Queen Margaret Union (QMU) building in Glasgow with a special gig at the venue ...
Anti-fascist techno hip hop punks head to Edinburgh
by Voice Reporter • Moscow Death Brigade (MDB) is an anti-fascist techno/rap/punk phenomenon from Russia that plays ‘Circle Pit Hip-Hop’. They’re a burning Molotov of ...
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