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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

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Culture, Scottish Politics Posted on1st March 20209th September 2020

Capital of amnesia

“Nostalgia doesn’t create good policy. Nostalgia dragging you back to a year that is gone and a place and time that is gone doesn’t give […] Read More

Climate Change, Culture, Politics Posted on25th March 201828th March 2019

In Search of Post-Carbon Scotland

In October 2017 the Scottish Parliament voted overwhelmingly to support an indefinite ban on fracking. The move was, correctly, deemed historic. For the first time after […] Read More

Culture Posted on26th September 201729th July 2018

Expiring Capital – on leaving Edinburgh

Squint your eyes when looking at Edinburgh from most angles and you can still, despite the uniquely layered density of spires and rooftops, imagine it […] Read More

Culture Posted on26th August 20173rd February 2018

Monuments tell us about ourselves as well as the past we used to celebrate

In Charlottesville or Charlotte Square: history is a nightmare that has to be confronted, says Christopher Silver. Recent events in the United States have provoked […] Read More

Culture, Film, Politics Posted on19th July 20172nd August 2017

To look beyond Brexit, we have to liberate Scotland’s creativity

This weekend, cinemagoers across the U.K and all over the planet will head out in droves to see Christopher Nolan’s much anticipated epic film Dunkirk. […] Read More

Culture, Indyref, Politics Posted on18th September 20161st July 2017

New thinking for a new social movement

There is nothing special about the experience of attending a political gathering. Regulars will attest that they can often be frustrating and predictable affairs full […] Read More

Culture, Politics Posted on13th August 20161st July 2017

It’s Generation Rent who power today’s Fringe

I’VE worked in pretty much every capacity you could imagine at the Edinburgh festivals. Over the years I’ve flyered, taken tickets, worked the bars, written […] Read More

Culture, Media, Scottish Politics Posted on6th August 20161st July 2017

Scottish Six: What does it all mean for Scotland to have its own BBC ‘national’ news?

When the debate about the Scottish Six first kicked off in 1997 I was still at primary school. Remarkably it’s taken 18 years for us to get […] Read More

Culture Posted on27th June 201627th June 2017

A note on liberal anxiety

Anxiety seems to be very much in vogue this season. Shocks to the systems of liberal western democracies — Brexit, Trumpism, Euro-Fascism — all seem […] Read More

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