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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: A photograph of US President Donald Trump and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed on the side of a van in Aberdeen city centre, during Trump’s private trip to Scotland last year
Features / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN

FBU leader Steve Wright
Features / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, March 10, 2026
Eyes Wright / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin

Scottish Labour Women's Declaration
Features / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system

THE PRIVATEER: Wes Streeting
Features / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint

ALTERNATIVES: Al Amal (Hope) palliative care team, during the home-based care visit in 2021. Pic: Alamalrwanda/CC
Science and Society / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

Mourners pray during the funeral of Mehdi Hosseini, a man killed by a US-Israeli strike, at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026
Middle East / 10 March 2026
10 March 2026

The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

Health workers form a blockade in Soho Square during a protest outside the London headquarters of US tech giant Palantir, which was awarded a �330 million contract by NHS England last month to create a new data management system called the Federated Data Platform, December 21, 2023
Big Tech / 10 March 2026
10 March 2026

While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER

British Royal Marines at the Alfaw Oil fields during the illegal invasion of Iraq, March 2003
Voices of Scotland / 10 March 2026
10 March 2026

As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict

The Anglo-Iranian oil refinery at Abadan, Iran, March 18, 1951
Middle East / 10 March 2026
10 March 2026

From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE

Firefighters put out the fire in the ruins of an apartment building following Russia's missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2026
Features / 8 March 2026
8 March 2026

SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services

Graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children, of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' primary school in Minab, Iran, March 2, 2026
Iran / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026

DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran