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It’s arguably Europe’s premier Bronze Age art site -– but it has spent the last 50 years hidden underground.
Celtic and St Etienne are both in the dock with UEFA over fans waving Palestinian flags at Israeli teams.
Scotland’s new deprivation figures confirm a wider trend towards suburbanising poverty.
Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
They’re a global phenomenon – but gangs are so varied that they barely merit the same name.
The fears about the City don’t look overcooked – here’s why.
Evidence from the UK experience suggests there are pros and cons in both City Deals and Devolution Deals.
Scotland remains sick man of Europe despite devolution. Here’s what is going wrong.
The Turnbull government sees the ‘City Deal’ as a way for ‘smart cities’ to drive innovation and growth. But what is the value proposition behind this UK concept and how might it work in Australia?
During the 20th century, English accents began to pick up traits from the capital. In the west of Scotland, though, something different has been going on.
As Glasgow’s most famous tower blocks are razed, we’re again being asked to celebrate destruction of old notions of housing provision. We should treat it as a different opportunity entirely.
Cities may only occupy about 2% of the world’s habitable land, but they are big drivers of global climate change. Cities are usually hotter than rural areas, and get referred to in the jargon as “urban…
The conventional image of suburbia is one of bland affluence and social homogeneity. Suburbs are where the middle classes aspire to make their nests. They are the idealised safe havens for raising children…
It has been confirmed that a healthcare worker who has returned from Sierra Leone has contracted the Ebola virus and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital. The female patient tested positive for the virus…
Stunned, open-mouthed, horrified. How else to describe the events in Glasgow three days before Christmas as a council refuse lorry ran out of control in George Square in the heart of the city? It mounted…
The 20th Commonwealth Games have come and gone. Glasgow has demonstrated that it can successfully deliver a large-scale, global, multi-sport and cultural event. It can fill the stadia, shuttle people around…
It’s hard to think of any two Commonwealth Games host cities more different than Glasgow and the Gold Coast in faraway Australia, home to the 2018 Games. But as our small university delegation discovered…
So you’ve travelled to the Commonwealth Games, you’ve done the standard tourist route and you’ve figured out that your English phrase book is not much cop. Panic no more. Here is your essential guide to…
The “second city of empire” was how this year’s host of the Commonwealth Games used to be well known. Glasgow’s imperial past is hinted at by names littered throughout the city centre, in geographic pointers…
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
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