4th November 2018
Tara Gandhi Deputy News Editor Glasgow City Council “are poised to announce” plans to set up a museum about Glasgow’s links with the slave trade. This follows campaigns to raise awareness of the issue led by the likes of MSP Graham Campbell, who himself is descended from enslaved people in Jamaica. Campaigners have also requested ...
4th November 2018
Kelton Holsen Reporter This Halloween, police received two separate reports of bodies spotted in the River Clyde and the Kelvin. The incident at the Clyde occurred at the Squinty Bridge at around 1:35 PM. Witnesses reported seeing someone in the water near the bridge. The bridge was subsequently closed down, and emergency services were called ...
4th November 2018
Laurie Clarke Editor The door to my building takes five seconds to lock behind me. Five seconds to hurry down the close, up the stairs, look once – twice – over my shoulder until the door is out of sight, and glance at my reflection in the window before I turn the corner. I wait ...
4th November 2018
Aurora Piergiacomi Writer Exploring the political links between East Kilbride workers and Pinochet’s Chile “Sometimes the butterfly flaps its wings and there’s a storm at the other side of the world.” East Kilbride, 1974: a group of Rolls Royce engineers decide to act in solidarity with Chilean people oppressed by the military junta and refuse ...
