The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
IT’S probably Glasgow’s best-known district in the legends of old — but these days it’s sometimes found lacking on the soul front.
So it’s all the more exciting that one of Scotland’s newest social enterprises has chosen a railway arch in the Gorbals as its home.
The story began with Dave Lanigan, who has been brewing at Ride Brew Co in Glasgow’s city centre for some years.
Amid rising hostility and division, the answer to fear and frustration is not isolation but the organised solidarity that built working-class communities, says MATT KERR
In the final part of LAYTH YOUSIF'S series on the history of the NY Cosmos, he traces their experiences which have made them the team that always has success in their sights
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
ANDREW FILMER welcomes the reopening of Glasgow’s landmark theatre after a seven-year transformation


