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Time for a citizens’ solution to Scotland’s media crisis

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jack Ferguson The recent news that the editor of both the Sunday Herald and The National, Richard Walker, is to resign as part of an effort by owners Newsquest to cut costs is a sobering one for ...

A Red/Green bloc is needed at Holyrood

July 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Pat Kane As they used to say about Frank Sinatra: it’s a SNP world—we just live in it. Or at least it sometimes seems that way, in terms of the Scottish National Party’s recent history. A ...

Scottish independence can show the world a new model for the 21st century, writes Hue and Cry’s Pat Kane

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Pat Kane There are parts of Scotland where the past, the present and the future gets rolled up in one. I’m often to be found in and about Spiers Wharf in Glasgow. The productive might of the ...

Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book launch: Restless Land by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson, published by Calton Books and distributed by AK Press by Frances Curran It was a book launch but not as we know it. A hot night in ...