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Christopher Silver

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Botanic Gardens Edinburgh by Gary-Campbell Hall
Uncategorised Posted on29th December 202030th December 2020

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

Cover image © Daniel Seex 

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