BELFAST. June 2026. Burnt out homes. Terrified families fleeing in the night. We’ve been here before. A knife attack by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese asylum seeker in Nationalist North Belfast, triggered anti-immigration riots by Union Jack clad mobs. Loyalist-led pogroms are not new, but their target is. Catholic Irish have been replaced by people of colour.

THE navvies took part in various popular sports and pastimes including football, draughts and tug of war competitions

IN THIS feature I wanted to explore the experience of the navvies in the construction of part of Glasgow’s water supply