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
As the moment when both climate change and the true cringing absurdity of Brexit became tangible and unavoidable – the summer of 2018 seems weighted […] Read More
“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