Cosy games' have grown in popularity in recent years but can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth ...

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 ...

From Back to the Future, Far and Away, Ned Kelly, and beyond, the Irish diaspora on the Anglo-colonial frontier has long benefitted from the plucky underdog treatment in Hollywood. And, until Sinners ...

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 ...

May 2026’s Senedd election confirmed a major shift in Welsh politics. Reform UK, which secured just 1–2 per cent of the vote at the previous election, emerged as a significant electoral force in Wales ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

While polling shows overwhelming public support for a full embargo on UK arms exports to Israel, British factories continue to produce parts for planes dropping bombs on Palestine. Many ...

All of us in Reel News have been trade union activists for years. We realised no one was systematically publicising workers’ disputes. Reel News came out of indie media – the idea of activists ...

‘Without any reason, they shoot our fire truck. Three or four bullets. One of them was in my shoulder.’ Palestinian firefighter, Rabe’e Antar, pulls up the sleeve of his navy shirt to reveal a deep ...

Captain James Cook lands on Kanaky, naming the island ‘New Caledonia’ after the Latin name for Scotland. Nickel is discovered by Jules Garnier. As of 2024, Kanaky holds between 20 and 30 per cent of ...

It is said that history is written by the winners, but increasingly it is being interpreted by those who see themselves as modernity’s cultural losers. Collectively, these individuals are referred to ...

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 ...