Usdaw is working hard alongside its members to smash down barrriers facing neurodivergent workers, writes Joanne Thomas
A HUGE dark cloud hung over Glasgow last weekend. As I wandered towards Sauchiehall Street, the smell of a massive barbecue filled the air — but the mood was far from celebratory.
Looking up above, it was impossible to tell the smoke from the clouds producing the acrid drizzle falling on the unkempt pavements.
Behind the police cordons at lunchtime on Saturday, firefighters were still spraying the smouldering Glasgow School of Art with a jet of murky water, pumped in from the Clyde via fire hydrants.
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend
As Scotland’s inept political class hold endless summits on topics ranging from Reform to seagulls, and management culture replaces political leadership, MATT KERR goes for a hike to take his mind off the unfinished, unaddressed and undone



