vice – Peter Geoghegan

How Labour Lost Ground to the Scottish National Party

By peterPosted on 29th April 2015Posted in Politics, Scotland, viceTagged independnence, Labour, Scotland, SNP

“Which way will you be voting in May?” I ask a table laden with lunchtime half pints and nips in the members’ bar at Loanhead Miners Welfare and Social Club in Midlothian, half a dozen miles or so from Edinburgh. “We’re all Labour,” says one man with a broad smile. “Are we fuck!” roars his […]

Living in the Shadows of Glasgow’s High Rise Ghettos Before They Get Blown Up

By peterPosted on 21st February 2015Posted in Scotland, viceTagged Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, High rise, Mitch Miller, Red Road

Early last April, a letter arrived at Betty Caw’s neat, pebbledash terrace house directly opposite Glasgow’s towering Red Road flats. “The regeneration of North Glasgow is continuing at great pace and with that in mind I have some exciting news,” began a single page on council headed paper signed by Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow […]