Just Love Edinburgh Stand for Freedom: One Day for their Everyday
Friday 18 October was National Slavery Day, and in order to promote awareness of modern-day slavery, Just Love Edinburgh, a christian charity, stood for twenty-four hours outside University of Edinburgh’s…
Holyrood halts production of polluting plastic cotton buds
New laws to ban the sale and production of plastic-stemmed cotton buds have been implemented in Scotland. The move was prompted by an escalating number of the plastic stems washing…
Yellow Vest attack harms two Edinburgh students
Two Edinburgh students have been left shaken after being trapped in a French Metro station filled with tear gas on Saturday 12 October. The two girls in question had planned…
SNP Conference: insight into Scotland’s potential future
Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, told the SNP conference that it is”our job to deliver independence” in her keynote speech on Tuesday. The annual…
Rojava Protest: Kurdish liberation from Turkish attacks on Northern Syria
On Tuesday 15 October, people gathered around the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh to show solidarity towards Kurdish people in North-East Syria, also known as Rojava. The mainly-Kurdish group People’s…
Pardon act for historical same-sex offences comes into effect
A Scottish Parliament act pardoning convictions under historical anti-gay laws came into effect in Scotland on 15 October. The Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards)(Scotland) Act 2018 issues pardons to…
Defend Rojava Demonstration: Scottish solidarity with Kurdistan
Last Sunday, the small but not insignificant Kurdish community in Edinburgh came together for the ‘Defend Rojava’ demonstration. Attendees aimed to protest Donald Trump’s removal of US troops from Syria…