Skip to main content
Matt Kerr
(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
Untitled-1.jpg
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

matt Kerr piece webpic.jpg
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
An elderly woman counting loose change
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
Unite members take part in a day of action for Energy4All in
Britain / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
Energy giants rake in half a trillion pounds out of people’s misery, campaigners warn
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meeting military p
Aw That / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
Pickets at Shieldhall Waterworks, Govan
Britain / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Doon Castle at Loch Doon, Carrick, Scotland
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Protesters at the University of Glasgow
Britain / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Second Cumming - Bella Caledonia 2020, by Lorna Miller
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
Homeless people rough sleeping
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025