“We gather not to beatify a saint, but to remember a human being.” With these words the reverend George Whyte opened the public memorial service […] Read More
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Friendships emerge in the strangest moments. I first met Alison in the weeks following the Scottish Independence Referendum: a moment of loss that some said really was like […] Read More
ARNOLD Kemp’s personal history of post-war Scotland, The Hollow Drum, contains an evocative passage in which the author, then deputy editor of The Scotsman, explores […] Read More
You live alone in a bedsit which is damp. You’ve stayed here for five months now, and have yet to see a single familiar face […] Read More
Originally published on Open Democracy. In the Ruhr valley, amid the silent structures of what was once the largest coking plant in Europe, school children […] Read More
In late 2018 I was commissioned alongside photographer Alan McCredie to look at the concept of how Scotland can achieve a ‘Just Transition’ away from […] Read More
There is a well-founded reason for Hamish Henderson’s notorious discomfort at the notion that his most salient contribution to Scottish radicalism might one day become the […] Read More
f 2016 was the year when Scottish Labour was damaged, probably beyond repair, 2017 could well be the year that sees its final collapse. If […] Read More
The light of some just republic, waits for us in the trees. Sought out like a lover, for we know it may deceive. These […] Read More