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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