The small town between Edinburgh and Glasgow has become fertile ground for the far right following years of cuts and collapsing local services ~ Sc…

Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street...

Visitors said to have cut back length of their festival stays by almost a fifth

Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

In a special report our Writer at Large investigates the delivery of justice in Scotland, and uncovers a litany of failures, mistakes and disasters…

Women like me: Carraway’s memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival is “the most important book on the impacts of austerity I have ever read”, writes Rowan Tallis Milligan. by Cash CarrawayEbury Pres...

by Andrew Fraser edited by Rob Ray ISBN 978-1-904491-31-6 Paperback: 208pp Freedom Press, 2019 Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His writing on life as a ro...

Scorsby was on the ground at yesterday’s spectacular, and successful, effort to deter an immigration raid in Edinburgh. At around a quarter to six the first call-outs began. An immigration raid van ha...

Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

I don’t think we are just legal. I think we are a repository of collective knowledge.— Kim, he/him The Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) was set up in 1975 as a successor to the Family Squatters Ad...

This paper examines the London squatting movement and argues that it was a key radical social movement which redefined the owner

In this paper I argue that squatting provides a concrete and theoretical location for dismantling binaries between successful and failed resistance. Focusing on the development of a political and a...

"In dark times, people have always found ways to make their own light. That work is now upon us."

Voting rolls are technically public records but can be laborious to get hold of. A right-wing site weaponizes that information by allowing anyone, anywhere, to search for a voter’s physical address an...