Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
IT’S BEEN a bit crowded around Mars this last month. The US mission Perseverance managed to touch down first.
It was looking for a bit of dried-up pond slime which is where they believe some remains of life on Mars might be found.
Most US citizens, especially Donald Trump’s special species of right-wing racist ignoramus, saw the invasion of Mars as a logical follow-up to the US invasions of Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, the moon, etc.
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist
ANDREW FILMER welcomes the reopening of Glasgow’s landmark theatre after a seven-year transformation



