Islay McLeod’s
straw poll
On the day of the Glasgow north-east
by-election, the punters’ verdict
Shevlanes bar, Springburn
Left to right:
Labour. ‘We’re going to win’.
BNP: ‘It’s like the United Nations around here’.
Labour: ‘I’ve always voted Labour’.
SNP: ‘I felt like an alien in London’.
I asked them if there were any Tories in Springburn.
‘Aye, there’s one’.
‘Who is it?’.
‘Michael Martin’.
Laughter all round.
13.11.09
Issue no 169
A week in Glasgow
north-east
Islay McLeod’s images of the constituency which produced more than 1,000 votes for the BNP on Friday morning
[click here]
The woman from Kabul
Afghanistan and remembrance I
Kenneth Roy
on a visitor who personified
the qualities of the Afghan
[click here]
The white poppy
Afghanistan and remembrance II
David Mackenzie
and Andrew Sarle
[click here]
The gentry’s cloth
Peter MacAulay
People wove tweed when
there was no other work
[click here]
A hunger for ideas
Walter Humes
on the intellectual
life of a city
[click here]
More than a bus operator
Richard Benjamin
leaps to the defence of
Ann Gloag. Sort of
[click here]
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