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Christopher Silver

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COP26 Posted on12th November 20214th January 2022

COP Resistance Report 6: ‘We will outlive these empires’

Grief, rage, burnout, anguish, fear, despair, despondency are all perfectly rational responses to the failure of the planet’s most powerful people to place their immense […] Read More

Govan Free State
COP26 Posted on8th November 20215th January 2022

Welcome to the new world of Govan

‘I, Ana Laide Soares Barbosa, great granddaughter of the enslaved, Granddaughter of peasants and fishing people, fisherwoman, accept the invitation to this new world of […] Read More

Edinburgh Book Festival
Culture Posted on6th September 202117th November 2022

Time, travel and the fading magic of Edinburgh

There’s something magical about living in Edinburgh as the festival draws to a close – something far more poignant than mere relief that the bins […] 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

Jenny Holzer
Climate Change, Culture Posted on7th September 20209th September 2020

You Don’t Get to Grow Up in the World You Imagined

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

Edinburgh old town from Salisbury Craigs
Culture, Scottish Politics Posted on1st March 20209th September 2020

Capital of amnesia

“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

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

Politics, Scottish Politics Posted on17th December 201917th February 2020

Independence is not a Lifeboat, it’s a Mutiny

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

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