Category: Politics

The rifle is still pointing at Afghanistan The Scottish Reviewers Alan Fisher’s World Sunday 15 February Twenty years ago this weekend, Soviet tanks rolled out of Afghanistan – ending its…

Islay McLeod’s Scotland The Other Holyrood Stepping across the road… Meanwhile, on the other side of the road… [click here] for The Big Match All photographs Copyright Institute of Contemporary…

[go to page 3] [go back] INBOX BARACK AND ME Now it can revealed – the story of our beautiful friendship [click here] for Kenneth Roy A NIGHT TO CHANGE…

The morning after Barack and me Kenneth Roy Britain may be facing the worst recession in Europe, with the possible exception of Latvia, but the habits of dress-down Friday die…

[go back] MIDWEEK INBOX Another Country Islay McLeod’s Scotland The Other Holyrood [click here] The Big Match [click here] Kenneth Roy’s Midweek What do the other Holyrood and the big…

     I looked up at the sky. It was big. I looked all around me. It appeared to be safe. The streets were wide and the houses modern, trim, suburban-respectable. One…

Whatever happened to queuing? Mick North A few weeks ago, frustrated that my first ever flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5 to Glasgow had been delayed by over two hours, I…

Alan Fisher’s Letter from Moscow Wednesday 3 December One of the big hits on Russian television this winter has been a series trying to establish who the greatest Russian in…

Broken Society? Kenneth Roy’s report from the front line in Glasgow’s east end A young woman pushing a pram tentatively boarded the Easterhouse bus. In her hand was a £20…

The last hurrah Kenneth Roy on Jimmy Reid This lecture was given at Glasgow Caledonian University The year after Jimmy Reid was born, a Scottish poet conceived the idea of…