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Raeda Alian, who was evacuated from Gaza City, wipes a tear as she sits next to her belongings after arriving at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, an area that Israel has designated as a ‘safe zone’, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 23, 2025
Middle East / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn calls for a Gaza inquiry during a march for Palestine in central London, May 21 2025
Aw That / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Members of Scotland's tenants' union Living Rent organised a protest outside the Edinburgh City Council Chamber to highlight concerns about the scarcity of housing, January 2018
Scotland / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow
Scotland / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh
Scotland / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Scotland / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025
Protesters outside AXA offices. Photo: Extinction Rebellion Scotland
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
SNP Parliamentary Business Minister Jamie Hepburn speaks to the media after Douglas Ross accused the Scottish Government minister of assaulting and verbally abusing him as he left the chamber in Holyrood at the Scottish Parliament, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
Money stacked on top of a council tax bill
Scotland / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
A view of bank notes
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Former First Minister Humza Yousaf arrives for a debate on free school meals at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 11, 2024
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Scotland / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, September 18, 2025
Scotland / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
Clydebank TUC makes the case for Welfare Not Warfare
Scotland / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
Children playing on swings in a park near Ashford, Kent
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
A tanker pumping out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
Loch Laxford seen through the hills, close to Foindle on the north-west coast
Scotland / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney addresses the workforce during a to visit Alexander Dennis in Larbert to meet staff and discuss the government's work with partners to secure the future of the company's manufacturing in Scotland, September 15, 2025
Transport / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Passengers onboard a Calmac ferry
Workers' Rights / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Injection bay areas in the Using Space at The Thistle drugs consumption room at the NHS Enhanced Drug Treatment Facility at Hunter Street Health Centre in Glasgow, January 9, 2025
Healthcare / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, calling for an end to cuts imposed on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service over the last 10 years, October 26, 2023
Public Services / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, August 30, 2025
Scotland / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London
Scotland / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
An elderly woman's hands
Scotland / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People look at ‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ on display during a preview of the CC Land: The Wonder of Art exhibition in the refurbished Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London
Culture / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
House of Commons House of Commons handout photo issued of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons, London, during Prime Minister's Questions, September 10, 2025
Aw That / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR

NHS workers take part in a march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023
NHS Crisis / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Septemner 11, 2025, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders from Gaza City
Gaza Genocide / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Scotland / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union take part in a rally, Dunfermline, Fife, February 22, 2023
Scotland / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh
Scotland / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate / 5 September 2025
5 September 2025
A view of injection bay areas in the Using Space at Thistle Centre Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow, July 3, 2025
Scotland / 4 September 2025
4 September 2025
Activists in Glasgow. Photo: Jim Campbell
Scotland / 4 September 2025
4 September 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Scotland / 5 September 2025
5 September 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Edinburgh Waverley station, September 1, 2025
Scotland / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025
SNP's Mairi McAllan, June 6, 2025
Scotland / 2 September 2025
2 September 2025
A Green Party supporter holding a placard
Scotland / 29 August 2025
29 August 2025
SEE THE OBVIOUS: A Stand Up To Racism rally outside the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Horley, Surrey, August 23 2025
Aw That / 30 August 2025
30 August 2025

Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land

An elderly lady sitting at home in Liverpool with her electric fire on
Scotland / 28 August 2025
28 August 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MSP Graham Simpson at a press conference at Macdonald Houstoun House, in Uphall, Broxburn, West Lothian, August 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
27 August 2025
Protesters outside Barclays in Glasgow
Scotland / 27 August 2025
27 August 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MSP Graham Simpson at a press conference at Macdonald Houstoun House, in Uphall, Broxburn, West Lothian, August 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
27 August 2025
Injured Gazans
Britain / 26 August 2025
26 August 2025
Scotland / 27 August 2025
27 August 2025
HOTEL WORKERS VICTORY
Scotland / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025
Members of Unite union take part in a demonstration to prote
Workers' Rights / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025
Francesca Albanese
Britain / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025
(left to right) Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband and MSP Colin Smyth during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast, March 24, 2023
Scotland / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
An offshore windfarm
Scotland / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
A view of turbines at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire
Scotland / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
Scotland / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
A person dripping testing solution into a Covid 19 lateral f
Scotland / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025
Activist blocakde the entrace to arms firm Leonardo's Edinburgh, August 18, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Inequality / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Then children's minister Maree Todd helps fill boxes alongside young people who were all involved in the new design of the baby box as its unveiled at the APS Group in Edinburgh, March 2019
Scotland / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland, December 15, 2022
Communications Workers Union / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025
Unite hospitality strike
Features / 16 August 2025
16 August 2025

A man at Glasgow’s Communist Party stall wearing a James Connolly shirt proclaimed himself a communist, then denounced asylum-seekers as an ‘invading army’ — but compromising won’t help, argues MATT KERR

US vice president JD Vance, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy welcomes him to Chevening House in Kent, during his visit to Britain, August 8, 2025
Far Right / 13 August 2025
13 August 2025
Undated handout photo provided by the Ministry of Defence of vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, to go on sea trials
Environment / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate Crisis / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: Steel workers and union officials protest outside the Houses of Parliament on June 28 2023
Features / 13 August 2025
13 August 2025
Woman too hot in office
Britain / 11 August 2025
11 August 2025
Anti-fascists gather in Aberdeen to oppose a protest by a far-right rabble, August 10, 2025
Migrant Solidarity / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025
Workers' Rights / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025
Glasgow peace garden
Scotland / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025
Workers' Rights / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Scotland / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A general view of pupils sitting an exam at Lawrence Sheriff school Rugby, Warwickshire
Education / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
HEROIC CONCLUSION: The riders by the sculpture of Mary Barbour - sculpted by Andrew Brown - commemorating the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike
Aw That / 2 August 2025
2 August 2025

MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid

Scotland / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
Members of Unite union take part in a demonstration to protest at Petroineos plans to close Grangemouth oil refinery, during the Scottish Labour Party conference at the Scottish Exhibition Centre (SEC) in Glasgow, February 21, 2025
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
US President Donald Trump walks onto the first tee of the New Course, the second championship course at Trump International Golf Links, on the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, July 29, 2025
Scotland / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
Scotland / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
Anti-fascists in Glasgow, July 26, 2025
Anti-fascism / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
People take part in a Stop Trump Scotland protest outside the US Consulate in Edinburgh, as US President Donald Trump begins his five-day private trip to the country at his Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, July 26, 2025
Authoritarianism / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025

Protesters take to Aberdeen's streets to protest against the US's far-right president's trip

A pro Palestinian flag can be seen in the crowd by the Pyramid stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh, March 2019
Slavery / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
Anti-fascist protesters in Aberdeen
Climate Crisis / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025
US military aircraft fly over Torry Battery at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour, ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to his golf courses in golf courses in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire, July 22, 2025
Antifascism / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025

Campaigners promise to welcome the US president to Scotland with a ‘festival of resistance’

Wrightbus' electric double decker bus at the Wrightbus' Ballymena factory, Northern Ireland
Industry / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025
General view of the Alexander Dennis site at Camelon, near Falkirk
Scotland / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
Scotland / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
Scottish Green Party's Ross Greer MSP at the 2023 Scottish Green Party Spring Conference at the Golden Jubilee Conference Centre in Clydebank, March 25, 2023
Scotland / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
(left to right) Liam Og O Hannaidh (Mo Chara) wearing a keffiyeh, Naoise O Caireallain (Moglai Bap), and JJ O'Dochartaigh (DJ Provai) from Kneecap performing on stage at London's Finsbury Park, as a support act to headliners, Fontaines DC, July 5, 2025
Scotland / 9 July 2025
9 July 2025
A copy of the first volume of the final report of the Horizon Inquiry, focusing on compensation and human impact, which has been published today at the Kia Oval, London, July 8, 2025
Post Office Inquiry / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025
A general view of the University of the West of Scotland's Lanarkshire Campus at Hamilton International Technology Park, June 24, 2019
Workers' Rights / 7 July 2025
7 July 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Scotland / 7 July 2025
7 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at the launch of the Government's 10-year health plan during a visit to the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health & Wellbeing Centre in east London, July 3, 2025
Scotland / 4 July 2025
4 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a reception for London Tech Week, at no 10 Downing Street, London, June 10, 2025
Aw That / 5 July 2025
5 July 2025

Twelve months into Labour’s landslide sees non-violent protesters face proscription for opposing genocide and working people, the sick and the elderly having fear beaten into them daily in the name of profit, writes MATT KERR

Scottish National Party's newly elected Siobhian Brown arrives for registration at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, May 11, 2021
Scotland / 30 June 2025
30 June 2025
Lecturers and other university staff take part in a rally on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, September 19, 2023
Scotland / 30 June 2025
30 June 2025
A general view of Royal Mail vans at Swadlincote Post Office
Royal Mail / 27 June 2025
27 June 2025
A shadow of a man as a woman cowers in the corner
Scotland / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) building in Edinburgh
Education / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
The hands of an elderly woman
Scotland / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
Scotland / 25 June 2025
25 June 2025
Knife march
Britain / 22 June 2025
22 June 2025
Scotland / 23 June 2025
23 June 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh's main library
Britain / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025
Skiers and snowboarders climb up to the remaining snow patches on Meall a'Bhuiridh in Glencoe to take part in the Midsummer Ski. The event, organised by the Glencoe Mountain Resort, is held every year on the weekend closest to the Summer Solstice, June 20, 2021
Aw That / 21 June 2025
21 June 2025

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

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a visit to manufacturing business Alexander Dennis in Falkirk, April 17, 2025
Scotland / 15 June 2025
15 June 2025
The oil platform Stena Spey is moved with tugboats amongst o
Tory Party / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025
Striking care workers march through Edinburg
Scotland / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025
A sign near a homeless person and their dog on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh
Housing / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025
Scotland / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025
A view of HMP Pentonville Prison
Britain / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025
A Saltire flag is flanked by Union flags flying above Whiteh
Scotland / 9 June 2025
9 June 2025
(left to right) Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and Davy Russell celebrate during a rally on Castle Street, Hamilton, after he was declared the winner for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, June 6, 2025
Scotland / 6 June 2025
6 June 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union take part in a rally outside the constituency office of Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville in Dunfermline, Fife, during their strike action in dispute over pay, February 22, 2023
EIS Conference 2025 / 6 June 2025
6 June 2025
Teachers from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union take part in a rally outside the Tramway in Glasgow on day two of the strike action in a dispute over pay, March 1, 2023
Scotland / 6 June 2025
6 June 2025
SNP Leader John Swinney joins parliamentary candidate Katy Loudon and party activists outside the party's campaign office in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, on the last day of campaigning for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, June 4, 2025
Scotland / 4 June 2025
4 June 2025
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham, December 21, 20
Scotland / 4 June 2025
4 June 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, June 2, 2025
Scotland / 3 June 2025
3 June 2025
Scottish Money
Scotland / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025
Walkers take an evening stroll near Gretna, Dumfries and Gal
Scotland / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025
NUM Scottish President Mick McGahey (right) with NUM President Arthur Scargill in London, where they met with coal board chairman Ian MacGregor at the NCB's headquarters, March 6, 1984
Scotland / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025
School girls walking to school
Education / 28 May 2025
28 May 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar giving a speech at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall in Glasgow, to mark one year to go to the next Holyrood election, May 7, 2025
Scotland / 28 May 2025
28 May 2025
A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England, January 2023
Healthcare / 28 May 2025
28 May 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Universities / 26 May 2025
26 May 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar with Daniel Johnson MSP (left), the party's candidate for the Hamilton by-election Davy Russell (second left) and BE-ST CEO Stephen Good (right) at Hamilton International Technology Park in South Lanarkshire, May 23, 2025
Hamilton by-election / 25 May 2025
25 May 2025
The far-right Great British National Strike in Glasgow
Scotland / 25 May 2025
25 May 2025
By-elections / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025

Davy Russell cornered over previous jobs

Anas Sarwar
Social homes crisis / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025
gaza
Aw That / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025

As Gaza burns and politicians abandon ‘bairns not bombs’ slogans to embrace a war economy, MATT KERR exposes the real purpose behind Britain’s EU fishing agreement: accessing €150 billion in militarisation funds

winter fuel protest
Energy profits / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025
Coins in a Saltire purse
Scotland / 22 May 2025
22 May 2025
uni edinburgh
Industrial / 21 May 2025
21 May 2025

University bosses refuse to rule out cutting staff

Industrial / 21 May 2025
21 May 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy listen to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (right) and European Council President Antonio Costa (left) during a meeting between the U.K. and the European Union to discuss closer ties in their first official summit since Brexit, in London, May 19, 2025
EU / 19 May 2025
19 May 2025
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip are seen at the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, May 19, 2025
Gaza / 19 May 2025
19 May 2025
People take part in a demonstration at Old Palace Yard in We
Britain / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025
School children during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire, November 27, 2019
Education / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025
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Features / 11 May 2025
11 May 2025

In his Aw That column MATT KERR looks, with dejection, at the opportunities squandered in the 80 years since Victory in Europe

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AW THAT / 25 April 2025
25 April 2025

There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR

Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and S
Britain / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Robert Gordon University lecturers on strike
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Counterdemonstrators in Paisley
Britain / 13 April 2025
13 April 2025
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Celtic Renewab
Britain / 13 April 2025
13 April 2025
Aw That / 12 April 2025
12 April 2025
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
Then Minister for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities Mic
Britain / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow, October 16, 2013
Britain / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
Britain / 7 April 2025
7 April 2025
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 7 April 2025
7 April 2025
Britain / 4 April 2025
4 April 2025