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29th December 2020

Contact Traces: 20 Slices of 2020

7th September 2020

You Don’t Get to Grow Up in the World You Imagined

1st March 2020

Capital of amnesia

Democracy for Sale book cover
Review Posted on6th October 202029th October 2020

Review: At least we won’t be bored

I suspect I’m not alone in never having heard of Richard Cook. In Democracy for Sale we learn that the Clarkston based businessman channelled unprecedented sums of money […] Read More

Huts and Riders on the Storm Book Covers
Review Posted on19th September 202029th October 2020

Review: Back to the Land

Huts: A Place Beyond – How to end our exile from nature by Lesley Riddoch, LuathBuy here.Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival […] Read More

Cheviot The Stag & The Black Black Oil Poster
Scottish Politics Posted on7th September 202011th September 2020

Rule Breakers or Rule Makers? Strategy, Solidarity and Scottish Statehood

There’s a revealing passage in Christopher Harvie’s Fool’s Gold on 7:84’s performance of The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil at the SNP conference in July 1973. […] Read More

Picture Post Plan for Britain
Coronavirus, Scottish Politics Posted on7th September 202011th September 2020

If this crisis is a war, we have to start asking what we’re fighting for

What does nationalism look like? Images of flags and people marching around them, collective weeping for the fallen, the seals and offices of state, the […] Read More

Coronavirus Posted on7th September 20209th September 2020

After the sick society

“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” Ma Joad, The […] Read More

Climate Change, Radical Routes Posted on17th February 20209th September 2020

RADICAL ROUTES PART TWO: A LONG TIME GONE, MEMORY AND MINING FROM SILESIA TO THE RUHR

“During the industrial era people were forced to endure long and bitter conflicts in their struggle to participate in the political system…It remains to be […] Read More

Climate Change, Radical Routes Posted on17th February 20209th September 2020

RADICAL ROUTES PART ONE: OLD-FASHIONED LOYALTIES

I take the slow train from Berlin to the Polish border in the early morning. On the platform of an eastern suburban station, tired workers […] Read More

Uncategorised Posted on10th January 20209th September 2020

On the frontlines of transition: Is Europe ready for a Green New Deal?

Originally published on Open Democracy. In the Ruhr valley, amid the silent structures of what was once the largest coking plant in Europe, school children […] Read More

Politics, Scottish Politics Posted on17th December 201917th February 2020

Independence is not a Lifeboat, it’s a Mutiny

Getting told to cheer up isn’t the worst aspect of the social-media-politics vortex by any means, but it’s one of the most soul-sapping. You ok […] Read More

Extinction Rebellion Protest Edinburgh
Climate Change, Politics Posted on22nd April 201917th February 2020

Extinction Rebellion and the power of disruption

Why the reaction to Extinction Rebellion reveals the scale of climate conflict to come I’d like to spend a few hours inside the head of […] Read More

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