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Christopher Silver

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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

Review Posted on16th July 202116th July 2021

A Miner’s Life

Christopher Silver reviews  ‘Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’, by Ewan Gibbs. In 2019 I traveled to three European mining regions: […] Read More

Review Posted on16th February 202116th July 2021

Capitalism at the precipice

The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age, by François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux, MIT Press.Less is More: How Degrowth […] Read More

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Review Posted on6th October 202029th October 2020

Review: At least we won’t be bored

I suspect I’m not alone in never having heard of Richard Cook. In Democracy for Sale we learn that the Clarkston based businessman channelled unprecedented sums of money […] Read More

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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

Film, Review Posted on4th May 201527th June 2017

Which side are you on? Review of Bikes vs Cars

…the question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from the question of what kind of people we want to be, what […] Read More

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