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12th November 2021

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

8th November 2021

Welcome to the new world of Govan

6th September 2021

Time, travel and the fading magic of Edinburgh

Uncategorised Posted on7th December 20227th December 2022

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

Politics Posted on17th September 202118th May 2022

The return of hunger as a political weapon shames us all

Attending the Job Centre once a week was always a curious ritual. I recall long waits, being handed lots of bits of paper, stares from […] Read More

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