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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Gangs and poverty in east Glasgow
BOB HOLMAN explains how community activism has made a real difference to Easterhouse, but government cuts are putting locals' good work in jeopardy
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
Last December Scottish TV screened a documentary by David Gillanders called Knife Crime: Winning the War.
The first part was shot 10 years ago when Gillanders accompanied an ambulance crew to Easterhouse in east Glasgow where he saw the gruesome injuries and deaths from gang violence several times a week and sometimes several times a night.
A year ago he repeated his coverage and in six months witnessed only two serious incidents. The police have reported a 57 per cent decline in gang violence.
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