Anxiety seems to be very much in vogue this season. Shocks to the systems of liberal western democracies — Brexit, Trumpism, Euro-Fascism — all seem […] Read More
Britain, we are told, doesn’t go in for revolutions. The urge to completely overturn the established order is said to be foreign. Our democracy is […] Read More
It is risky to attempt to predict where the Great British Crisis will lead us all next. No one can be more aware of this […] Read More
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in […] Read More
What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin […] Read More
When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a tally of 127 votes. In […] Read More
Post-election analysis by Christopher Silver When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a […] Read More
What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin Morgan, For […] Read More
The 2016 Scottish Parliament election was never going to offer much in the way of change. A new staunchly unionist Tory opposition seems possible, as […] Read More
With one party so far ahead in the polls, Christopher Silver considers the post-election landscape in Scotland and asks whether the pro-Union parties will consider […] Read More