“Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on” is an odd rallying cry for a national movement. It is not a “free or a desert” […] Read More
To find the repressive machinery of the state you happen to live in marshalled against you is a terrifying prospect. Most of us will never […] Read More
In October 2017 the Scottish Parliament voted overwhelmingly to support an indefinite ban on fracking. The move was, correctly, deemed historic. For the first time after […] Read More
What does it mean to live a life tied to a particular place? To feel your fate inescapably tied to it? Is it to be […] Read More
In an age when borders are supposed to be fading, most people remain stubbornly fond of the ideal of the nation. It offers comfort: a […] Read More
Party conferences are strange beasts. At a time when politics is hobbled by a constant need to respond to the surreal and the unexpected, the […] Read More
Squint your eyes when looking at Edinburgh from most angles and you can still, despite the uniquely layered density of spires and rooftops, imagine it […] 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
On balance, Kezia Dugdale was the most capable leader of Scottish Labour since Donald Dewar. That might seem like a molehill of an achievement given […] Read More
In Charlottesville or Charlotte Square: history is a nightmare that has to be confronted, says Christopher Silver. Recent events in the United States have provoked […] Read More