The side of this story which you hear less often is that the communities across the Highlands did what people do when they are oppressed. They organised.
In August 2003, a terror attack blasted apart the UN headquarters in Iraq. Inside, Gil Loescher and Arthur Helton were sitting down to interview Sergio Vieira de Mello for their joint openDemocracy column. Adam Ramsay speaks to Gil ten years on.
That the Westminster media could so entirely ignore Falkirk's electoral history shows once again how out of touch the London bubble can be.
In the wake of the ourBeeb NHS report, how do we create accountability in the BBC? Few licence fee payers know about or understand the audience councils or the role of the BBC Trust - is it time to end government appointments and have BBC elections?
A report of the second trial of UK Uncut activists who occuped the high class grocers Fortnum and Masons in March last year, by a defendant in the first. It too seems certain likely to confirm that in a political case the UK's legal system starts from the verdict and tries to ensure nothing distur
The Cameron government has called time on the Scotland's nationalist government and demanded a showdown on an independence referendum. But all may not be as it appears at first or even second sight.
On the union-led 'March For The Alternative' in London last March, 145 protestors were arrested for peacefully occupying a luxury store. Here, one of the ten found guilty speaks out on his trial.
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to the criticism of truncheons. The Liberal Democrats of all parties should oppose this.
By giving one of Britain’s leading bigots a knighthood – by honouring someone who dedicates himself to victimising LGBT children – this Government has shown just how skin deep their support for equality is.
The debate in England over Scottish independence misses the point. It was the SNP's ambition and positivity, not the independence issue, that won them the Parliamentary majority. Now they must be more bold still, and build a path towards a distinctively Scottish future
An activist in UK Uncut's account of his arrest and jailing after the 26 March demonstration
