In April 2025, in the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court’s devastating trans-exclusionary ruling on the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010, I met with a group of friends and ...

The current Israeli assault on Gaza is distinct only for its ferocity and the clarity of genocidal intent from its orchestrators. As a practice, it is anything but new. IDF ‘operations’ against ...

During the book campaign of my novel, Herculine [a horror fiction about an all-trans commune, published in October last year] I was asked a lot about politics. I was also asked to speak on – and speak ...

In our current populist and post-democratic moment, boundaries between politics and comedy often seem to be dissolving. Boris Johnson played a political fool for years before becoming prime minister, ...

São Paulo-based playwright Filipe Pereira on the challenges of left theatre-making in Brazil’s evolving political landscape ...

Many a chorus celebrates the equality of migrants in Scotland. ‘We’re all Scotland’s story and we’re all worth the same’, sang the Proclaimers, before Dick Gaughan turned the folk song Erin go Bragh ...

This letter to Extinction Rebellion was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

On 22 May 2014, David Coburn was elected to the European Parliament. With 10.4 per cent of the vote, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in Scotland only just made it to ...

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Rave subculture has attracted considerable infamy over its relatively short lifetime. However, among all the lurid tabloid reporting of hedonistic free-for-alls, rave also developed a reputation for ...

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority ...