There’s a revealing passage in Christopher Harvie’s Fool’s Gold on 7:84’s performance of The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil at the SNP conference in July 1973. […] Read More
We all felt a pang of the immediacy and excitement of youth when lockdown came around, in those first days when it seemed like everything […] Read More
What does nationalism look like? Images of flags and people marching around them, collective weeping for the fallen, the seals and offices of state, the […] Read More
“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” Ma Joad, The […] Read More
“Nostalgia doesn’t create good policy. Nostalgia dragging you back to a year that is gone and a place and time that is gone doesn’t give […] Read More
“During the industrial era people were forced to endure long and bitter conflicts in their struggle to participate in the political system…It remains to be […] Read More
I take the slow train from Berlin to the Polish border in the early morning. On the platform of an eastern suburban station, tired workers […] 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
Getting told to cheer up isn’t the worst aspect of the social-media-politics vortex by any means, but it’s one of the most soul-sapping. You ok […] Read More
Why the reaction to Extinction Rebellion reveals the scale of climate conflict to come I’d like to spend a few hours inside the head of […] Read More