Friendships emerge in the strangest moments. I first met Alison in the weeks following the Scottish Independence Referendum: a moment of loss that some said really was like […] Read More
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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
‘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
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
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
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
“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
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