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Christopher Silver

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30th December 2023

Alison Balharry 1962-2023

12th November 2021

COP Resistance Report 6: ‘We will outlive these empires’

8th November 2021

Welcome to the new world of Govan

Saltires outside St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Uncategorised Posted on6th January 20256th January 2025

Alex Salmond: history maker, or man of the past?

“We gather not to beatify a saint, but to remember a human being.” With these words the reverend George Whyte opened the public memorial service […] Read More

Culture, Uncategorised Posted on7th December 202219th July 2023

Travelling hopefully

ARNOLD Kemp’s personal history of post-war Scotland, The Hollow Drum, contains an evocative passage in which the author, then deputy editor of The Scotsman, explores […] Read More

Review Posted on27th September 202227th November 2022

Review: Only Disconnect

Darren McGarvey has made a career out of excoriating middle-class wankers, then getting those self-same middle-class wankers to pay him for the privilege. It’s an […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on27th May 202228th November 2022

What’s happened to Scotland’s local democracy?

In one Scottish city, a portfolio of iconic public buildings is re-financed to settle a decades-old equal pay dispute; in another, a radical programme to […] Read More

Climate Change Posted on8th May 202227th November 2022

We Are Not This Map

“We are not this map”: connecting struggles for land and justice in Skye and the Amazon. On a dreich April day Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on3rd January 20223rd January 2022

Don’t Mourn , Occupy!

Professor Lindsay Paterson argues that the relative stability of the union in the nineteenth century was underpinned by a gendered understanding of society. In that […] Read More

COP26 demo on Glasgow Green
COP26 Posted on18th November 20213rd January 2022

Six Sides of COP26

I In the early hours of 13th November human and environmental rights defender Alessandra Munduruku’s home was invaded. Having made the case against the ongoing depredations […] Read More

COP26 Posted on5th November 20213rd January 2022

COP Resistance Report 4: Life and death in George Square

Most of COP26 is spectacle: on both the inside and the outside of the official proceedings, the point is to be seen to be there. […] Read More

Living Proof still from film
Culture Posted on25th October 20213rd January 2022

Living Proof, the Landscape of an Orphaned Nation

When I began writing these columns in July, I started out with the idea that we are living out a kind of national orphanhood – […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on24th October 20213rd January 2022

COP26: Scotland’s pioneering tradition can help solve the climate crisis

When delegates convene for COP26 next week they will do so in a city that is still, despite the best efforts of planners and developers, […] Read More

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