“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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