Greece: the first Green government in Europe?
Image: Stefan Gabrieli The sound system was playing Bella Ciao. Flags of parties from across the left and the continent wiggled as their bearers danced and sang along. Ouzo flowed…
Palestine diaries: the psychology of occupation
Grafitti in Hebron reading "GAS THE ARABS". Image by the author. Emotions often come in short sharp stabs here. Horror, disgust, anger. Meeting the woman who was beaten up by…
Farage, Greens and the culture war
UKIP protestors in May 2014. Image: Gordon Maloney. “I'm not particularly bothered by it, but I know a lot of people do feel very I mean, look, it's just a…
Yes Campaigners at Faslane: “We Will Scrap Trident”
Faslane today (Images by Ric Lander) Over 1000 people gathered at the gates of Britain's nuclear submarine base on the Clyde today at the start of a renewed effort to…
Smith Commission leaves the money at Westminster
The Smith Commission on further powers for the Scottish Parliament reported this morning and made headlines with the announcement to fully devolve income tax powers. However the package of new…
The Hong Kong test
One thing China has in common with the UK is four football teams. China, like Scotland, is older than the concept of “nation-state”. But whereas the Scots held a referendum…
Arming all sides: how arms companies fuelled the great war
Munitions workers painting shells at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire c © IWM (Q 30016) World War One was an immoral war that led to an unparalleled level of death and destruction. By…
Romanian diaspora raises a cup of tea for democracy
Image: Adriana Neagoe A centre-right candidate may not be everyone's cup of tea, but the results of the recent Romanian elections can leave many of us smiling all the same.…
Hope as Resistance: 16 Pictures of Dissent to World War One
The last surviving British veteran of the First World War, Harry Patch, died in 2009. With him dies the collective memory of a generation that fought, resisted, endured and dreamed.…
Crisis in the Scottish media: finding the phoenix
The exception that proves the rule: following its lone support for independence the Sunday Herald is the only Scottish paper not in terminal decline. Image: Ric Lander. The Scottish media…