Glasgow

‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

14, May, 2021 @2:51 PM

UK insists Cop26 must be held in person if possible

Alok Sharma is working with health experts and Scottish government on best way for climate summit to go ahead

Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

14, May, 2021 @12:22 PM

Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed after immigration van standoff

Hundreds of people surrounded vehicle men were held in and chanted ‘these are our neighbours, let them go’

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

13, May, 2021 @6:37 PM

Euan Reid obituary

Other lives: Sociolinguistics expert with a particular interest in the use of minority languages in the UK

Kevin Wilson

07, May, 2021 @5:21 PM

Jean Leeming obituary

Other lives: Primary headteacher and adviser who was an expert in creative arts education

Terry Lanagan

06, May, 2021 @4:09 PM

Scottish Labour’s leader faces uphill task to drive SNP off course

Anas Sarwar is challenging Nicola Sturgeon – the first time in British politics that two major party leaders have contested the same seat

Severin Carrell Scotland editor

02, May, 2021 @9:08 AM

What’s the pull? Magnet fishing proves a catch in pandemic Scotland – a photo essay

Part environmentalism, part treasure-hunting, magnet fishing has attracted a tight group of enthusiasts around Glasgow who cast their lines out for grenades, knives, cannon balls – and shopping trolleys

Robbie Armstrong, photographs by Katherine Rose

30, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM

How a blackbird captured lockdown | Brief letters

Brief letters: Birdsong | Relocating Trident | Searching for the Guardian

Letters

28, Apr, 2021 @4:16 PM

Ghosts review – writing the enslaved back into Glasgow’s past

Adura Onashile’s app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city’s historical ties to the slave trade

Mark Fisher

23, Apr, 2021 @7:00 PM

Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic

Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis

Cath Clarke

18, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM

Sarah Everard: Met defends policing of London vigil as 'necessary'

Amid cross-party anger, Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball says officers were put in a position where they had to take ‘enforcement action’

Michael Savage, Emma Graham-Harrison and James Tapper

14, Mar, 2021 @7:22 AM

Glasgow’s miles better than this portrayal of a hopeless, dying city | Letter

Letter: There is much more to Scotland’s largest urban economy than ill health and desolation, writes Gavin Moffat