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Christopher Silver

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Uncategorised Posted on7th December 20227th December 2022

Travelling hopefully

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

Botanic Gardens Edinburgh by Gary-Campbell Hall
Uncategorised Posted on29th December 202017th November 2022

Contact Traces: 20 Slices of 2020

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

Uncategorised Posted on10th January 20209th September 2020

On the frontlines of transition: Is Europe ready for a Green New Deal?

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

Uncategorised Posted on25th November 201817th February 2020

Just Transition

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

Uncategorised Posted on21st September 201721st June 2018

Review: Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland (Luath)

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

Uncategorised Posted on19th December 20161st July 2017

Can Scottish Labour find a way back from the brink in 2017?

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

Uncategorised Posted on20th June 20131st July 2017

The Republic

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

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