Andrew Neil Jumps Ship

We have put some community notes on Andrew Neil’s hilarious resignation letter as Hedge-fund christian multi-millionaire Paul Marshall builds his far-right media empire by buying The Spectator. As Politico magazine explains the background: “In 2017 he launched UnHerd, a web-based magazine with a private members’ club attached that is based conveniently on Old Queen Street, […] Source

This is what community looks like

You could hear it before you could see it. Having stepped off the train from Glasgow Queen Street for merely a few seconds, the sounds of joyful drums, cheering, chanting and singing rang out around the station. Had anyone taken a right directly into Buchanan Street, you might have thought you were missing a carnival […] Source

The Most Documented Genocide in History

Every day a new atrocity as ethnocide blurs across our screens. A new murder, children being shot by snipers like a grotesque gameplay. As I write Reuters reports: ‘At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza, early on Saturday. Wafa […] Source

Only with independence can Scotland escape the rise of the right

Last weekend, there were elections in the Germans states of Thuringia and Saxony. In both these states the far right Alternative für Deutschland party, which favours the ‘repatriation’ of immigrants and even of some naturalised German citizens – the ones who are muslim or not white of course – performed alarmingly…

Police Intimidate UK Journalist Sarah Wilkinson

This is an extraordinary account of police intimidation of journalists commenting on the situation in Palestine under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act. Jonathan Cook writes: “This is an utterly shocking account from journalist Sarah Wilkinson of her recent violent arrest by 16 counter-terrorism police, several masked, at 7.30am. They smashed up, or stole, many […] Source