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  • ‘Only the Important People Get to See It, and That’s a Problem’: Tai Shani on the Inaccessibility of Performance Art 15 Oct 2019
  • The best of enemies – Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hugh MacDiarmid | The National 15 Oct 2019
  • Economics Nobel goes to poverty-fighting science | Science News 15 Oct 2019
  • Most Expensive City in the World | Mental Floss 15 Oct 2019
  • Opinion  -America 2019: Even the Wealthy Are Poorer in Everything That Matters 15 Oct 2019
  • ‘Madrid sealed Spain’s fate’: Salmond on pro-independence Catalan ‘martyrs sentenced to 100 years in prison’ — RT World News 15 Oct 2019
  • Ecuador cancels austerity plan in a bid to end unrest | News | DW | 14.10.2019 15 Oct 2019
  • Interview with Jim Ferguson (Glasgow poet) podcast 14 Oct 2019
  • Ken Loach: ‘The airwaves should be full of outrage’ | Film | The Guardian 14 Oct 2019
  • SNP members reject Plan B for second independence referendum | The National 14 Oct 2019
  • Remington art: friends or foe 14 Oct 2019
  • Book Review | This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev : Democratic Audit 13 Oct 2019
  • Design of new £20 note featuring JMW Turner unveiled by Bank of England – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk 13 Oct 2019
  • Talk nerdy to me 13 Oct 2019
  • Uncovering the Secret History of a Storied Irish Region – InsideHook 13 Oct 2019
  • Union on the brink with independence support at 50% | Scotland | The Sunday Times 13 Oct 2019
  • Revealed: Farage’s Brexit Party chairman facing questions over offshore tax haven links | openDemocracy 13 Oct 2019
  • Scottish voters overwhelmingly back Yes/No question for indyref2 | The National 13 Oct 2019
  • Frank McNally on Jonathan Swift, Japanese Christians, and the bombing of Nagasaki 12 Oct 2019
  • Is this a Raphael? Madonna and Child painting to be auctioned at Dorotheum in Vienna | The Art Newspaper 12 Oct 2019
  • Someone’s Built an Operating System to Run After The World Ends 12 Oct 2019
  • The 7 Best Coastal Walks and Walking Routes in Scotland | Wanderlust 12 Oct 2019
  • Divided UN fails to agree on Turkey’s offensive in Syria 12 Oct 2019
  • PREVIEW: Six things to look out for at SNP conference | The National 12 Oct 2019
  • Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party | Letter | Politics | The Guardian 12 Oct 2019
  • The Spirit of Freddy Anderson (Glasgow/Irish poet and playwright) Podcast 11 Oct 2019
  • ‘Time to build a pan-Celtic political culture to defeat Toryism’ – Sinn Féin President tells Plaid Cymru conference | An Phoblacht 11 Oct 2019
  • Lula Receives Human Rights Prize from Prison | News | teleSUR English 11 Oct 2019
  • ‘Shocking’ report from torture committee says disturbed women in Scottish jail need hospital not prison | HeraldScotland 11 Oct 2019
  • Heart surgeon and author reveals how he once set fire to patient | Books | The Guardian 11 Oct 2019
  • Oldest travel guide displayed at the British Museum 11 Oct 2019
  • Mediterranean style diet found to relieve symptoms of depression 11 Oct 2019
  • Renoir – La Promenade 10 Oct 2019
  • Scotland’s Declaration of Independence 10 Oct 2019
  • We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough | Suzanne Moore | Opinion | The Guardian 10 Oct 2019
  • Follow me on Spotify 10 Oct 2019
  • This play means healing: Exploring the parallels between colonization in Canada and the Philippines | CBC Arts 10 Oct 2019
  • Former Celtic stars show support for new play Bend it Like Brattbakk | Evening Times 10 Oct 2019
  • Bilingual Children’s Books That’ll Be Twice As Much Fun To Read 10 Oct 2019
  • You can now get a closer look at Mona Lisa | Top Story | thenews.com.pk | Karachi 10 Oct 2019
  • The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner – Consortiumnews 9 Oct 2019
  • Retail employees ‘too afraid’ to tell employer that they’re suffering with poor mental health 9 Oct 2019
  • The Irish Princess by Elizabeth Chadwick: A riveting tale of ambition and desire, love and loss, heartbreak and survival – book review – – Longridge News 9 Oct 2019
  • See artist Ben Turnbull’s powerful portraits of Native Americans created from vintage comic books 9 Oct 2019
  • ‘Lenin Moreno is Out of Reality’, President Maduro Warns | News | teleSUR English 9 Oct 2019
  • SNP Annual National Conference 2019 — Scottish National Party 9 Oct 2019
  • Nobel Prize for Physics awarded for cosmology and exoplanet breakthroughs 8 Oct 2019
  • Words for everyone at Castlebar’s Literary Festival 8 Oct 2019
  • ‘The Colonial Effect on Us Is Huge’: Why Congolese Collector Sindika Dokolo Sees Restitution as a Way to Remake African Identity 8 Oct 2019
  • Court Set To Hear Brexit Case Appeal After Ruling For UK Government | Financial News 8 Oct 2019
  • SNP announce Social Justice and Fairness Commission line-up | The National 8 Oct 2019
  • The Forgotten People(podcast) 8 Oct 2019
  • Portugal Election Result 7 Oct 2019
  • Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas Vows Elections, Talks With Hamas | News | teleSUR English 7 Oct 2019
  • Jo Swinson’s anti-Corbyn stance is designed to win over Tory voters – and it could lead to no-deal Brexit | inews 7 Oct 2019
  • Restaurants, Food Banks And Union Members Step Up To Feed Striking UAW Workers 7 Oct 2019
  • Picasso exhibition in Beirut reveals the artist’s take on love, family and fatherhood – The National 7 Oct 2019
  • Museum as Muck – improving working class representation in museums and galleries – Living Knowledge blog 7 Oct 2019
  • Comment: Shining Silicon Valley deals prove Scotland’s tech star is rising – The Scotsman 7 Oct 2019
  • Palestinian-Israelis Hold General Strike Against Police Violence | Al Bawaba 7 Oct 2019
  • General Motors strike talks take ‘turn for the worse’: union official – Business Insider 7 Oct 2019
  • Ecuador unions call off anti-austerity protests after 370 arrests in two days | Macau Business 6 Oct 2019
  • Open Letter to Derek Mackay: Put the public interest at the heart of public buildings | CommonSpace 6 Oct 2019
  • From Culloden to Yemen ; poem 6 Oct 2019
  • Ruling Socialists seen as favourites as Portugal votes – Reuters 6 Oct 2019
  • How tax haven investors profit from Edinburgh’s empty sick kid’s hospital 6 Oct 2019
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  • PressTV-‘Iraq potests rooted in US agression’ 6 Oct 2019
  • Watch Bonny Greer become a new Irish Hero 6 Oct 2019
  • All Under One Banner Live – Edinburgh 2019 6 Oct 2019
  • Joanna Cherry a vision for an Independent Scotland 6 Oct 2019
  • The first all-female spacewalk is scheduled for this month – CNN 6 Oct 2019
  • The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of October 2019 6 Oct 2019
  • David Suchet: I feel like an outsider in my own country | HeraldScotland 6 Oct 2019
  • Holburne Museum opens a focused exhibition of around twenty works by Henri Matisse 6 Oct 2019
  • Skanska goes digital for $680m European particle accelerator campus scheme – Innovation – GCR 6 Oct 2019
  • AUOB marchers head for Edinburgh in ‘biggest pro-indy event yet’ | The National 5 Oct 2019
  • AUOB pro-independence march and rally takes place in Edinburgh | The National 5 Oct 2019
  • Opinion  -A father’s grief and the Made in USA bomb dropped in Yemen 5 Oct 2019
  • Opinion  -Tell the truth if you dare 5 Oct 2019
  • Revealed: How Britain Locks People Into Homelessness | HuffPost UK 4 Oct 2019
  • Fintan O’Toole: Boris has destroyed what is left of UK’s credibility 4 Oct 2019
  • PM will seek Brexit extension if no deal agreed by 19 October, govt documents say | Politics News | Sky News 4 Oct 2019
  • Boris Johnson Brexit deal LIVE: Scottish court to decide whether PM can be jailed over no-deal | London Evening Standard 4 Oct 2019
  • Frustration among some UAW members grows as GM strike continues 4 Oct 2019
  • “How The Question ‘Who Benefits From This?’ Can Change Your Life” 3 Oct 2019
  • What is the UK and how does it work? Letter from the National 3 Oct 2019
  • A Woman in Bed | National Galleries of Scotland 3 Oct 2019
  • Bye bye Irish backstop: BoJo’s final offer to the EU 3 Oct 2019
  • Opinion  -The Ukraine Impeachment Fiasco: Both Republicans and Democrats Being Manipulated by the Deep State 3 Oct 2019
  • Celtic Connections Festival 2020 in Glasgow: who is playing, where are the venues, what time to concerts start? | HeraldScotland 2 Oct 2019
  • “US Empire Tightens Sanctions On Venezuela And Manning” 2 Oct 2019
  • Who’s afraid of William Blake? Art lovers vexed Tate Britain felt 200-year-old paintings needed ‘violence & suffering’ warning 2 Oct 2019
  • Watch “History & Philosophy” on YouTube 2 Oct 2019
  • General strike (Greece) on Wednesday to halt public transport, ferries | News | ekathimerini.com 2 Oct 2019
  • The Capture, review: this fascinating thriller plays on our fears of a globalised secret state | inews 1 Oct 2019
  • Hokusai’s (Thirty) Six Views of Mount Fuji – DailyArtMagazine.com – Art History Stories 1 Oct 2019
  • International Community demands the end of the US blockade against Cuba at UN – ACN 1 Oct 2019
  • MSPs to mark 80-year anniversary of Citizens Advice in Scotland | The National 1 Oct 2019
  • Younger viewers are switching off TV 1 Oct 2019

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