Scotland’s rapidly growing support for Reform UK is the result of a profound crisis of trust in mainstream politics — one that progressives share, and must harness, writes DEREK THOMSON
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Is Scotland really a colony?
That Scotland was an active participant and beneficiary of colonialism and slavery is not a question of blame games and guilt peddling, but a crucial fact assessing the class nature of the questions of devolution and independence, writes VINCE MILLS
MIXED HISTORY: The Kelvingrove Art Gallery has significant connections to profits made from the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
The devastating impact of austerity has left Scotland’s education system on its knees, argues ANDREA BRADLEY, urging politicians to show courage by increasing wealth taxation to fund our schools properly
On the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-fascism, left forces in Italy mobilise against genocide, armament, and the Meloni government, reports ANA VRACAR
After a ruinous run at Tolkien, the streaming platforms are moving on to Narnia — a naff mix of religious allegory, colonial attitudes, and thinly veiled prejudices that is beyond rescuing, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland
IF you are visiting Glasgow, you will almost certainly want to spend some time in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End. If you do, you may well be struck by a large-scale double portrait of Robert Nutter Campbell and his wife, Margaret Montgomery.
It shows them at their Peebleshire estate of Kailzie around 1805. Campbell was busy at that time extending his property, which was set in extensive parkland overlooking the Tweed valley, including a new mansion house and three lodges.
So, where did Campbell get the money for this estate? Well, some of the wealth he had inherited from his father, who owned slave plantations in the Caribbean, but like father, like son, Robert had a slave plantation of his own, the Carriere estate on the east coast of Grenada.
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