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...history….but by 55% to 45% the pro-independence movement lost. But within days and weeks of the result, it was already clear that it was the pro-independence movement that had emerged the strongest political force. This propelled the SNP to its stunning victory in the May 2015 General Election in Scotland. In what has been referred to as a ‘tartan tsunami’, the SNP...

...history, to see the relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the context of immigration, which has been central to the work of The Open University’s Year of Mygration, launched in January this year. The beginning of human rights Seventy years ago, the United Nations launched its first human rights protocol, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The...

...history of the USA, and which enabled it to participate in the creation of both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Its predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, evangelical, older, male voter base can no longer be relied on to secure a majority, even with the loyal support of big business and the military/industrial complex. The demographic sands are shifting fast. By...

...family and other commitments (often simultaneously). The one-off payment was therefore seen by many lecturers as a slap in the face, an insult. [A group of lecturers picketing outside Edinburgh college]EIS FELA strikers on picket line duty, Edinburgh College, May 2022 (Source: EISFELA @Twitter) Strike action commences EIS FELA members engaged in one day of strike action,...