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
Category: Review

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

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

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

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
…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