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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

Politics, Scottish Politics Posted on22nd June 20172nd August 2017

Tales of two cities: Can Scotland’s anti-Tory majority be mobilised?

Sometimes events on the ground throw mainstream politics into flux. If you’re sceptical of such an assertion it is worth nothing that, as I write, […] Read More

Politics Posted on11th May 20172nd August 2017

Why #GE17 will be known as the anti-politics election

With mandate fatigue paralysing the body politic, it’s little wonder that many are approaching the coming election with reluctance, dread, and a real sense that […] Read More

Politics Posted on7th May 20177th February 2018

Stability for the Precariat?

If a week is a long time in politics a lifetime must seem interminable. Yet for Theresa May, so anxious to ramp up a mood […] Read More

Politics Posted on22nd February 201727th June 2017

Why Labour is Losing Britain

Booze for the terraces, pink vehicles for the ladies, tough love for the scroungers, pride for the white vans, nurses to attend ailing Scots by […] Read More

Politics Posted on8th November 20161st July 2017

Enemies of the people in the promised land

“So it is worth reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human […] Read More

Politics Posted on7th October 20161st July 2017

Citizens of nowhere: the new politics of shame

cross the world governments are having to deal with referendums delivering results that see the instigators fail to return their desired result. In Hungary, the […] 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

Politics Posted on12th September 20161st July 2017

Back to the future for Theresa May and old-school English Tory values

The political obsessions of a country are often highly revealing. At moments of crisis, such matters become all the more potent. Home truths are all […] 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

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