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Month: September 2020

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

Jenny Holzer
Climate Change, Culture Posted on7th September 20209th September 2020

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

We all felt a pang of the immediacy and excitement of youth when lockdown came around, in those first days when it seemed like everything […] 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

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