'We can finally return to Syria, but this island is our home'
@_Anguscchrn and I went to Bute last week to speak with Syrians settled on the island after fleeing civil war a decade ago.
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Bute has welcomed 125 Syrian refugees over the past decade.
The fall of Assad's regime has given those who fled a glimmer of hope of returning. But it has also posed the question of where home truly lies.
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‘Large-scale change to the motorway is impossible without large-scale political reform. The council is too weak and too poor.’
Richard J. Williams on the problem of Glasgow’s M8: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
'There is nowhere left to cut,' say charities facing the National Insurance hike.
One charity boss describes it as the 'death knell' for social care, while hospices say they may have to turn patients away.
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"Glasgow has not lost its capacity to excite. On frosty nights, heading gig-wards along the Gallowgate, the Barrowlands’ fairground dazzle still quickens the pulse."
Beautiful writing by @DaniGaravelli1 in our first weekend read.
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