Optional identity mark sock puppets

I’m a bit late with this blog piece because I had a physiotherapy appointment on Friday and then we had friends from London staying over for the weekend. But things are back on track now. Last week Keir Starmer was in Scotland to insist that Labour is “the change that Scotland…

Mythical Creatures: reporting from the Conspiracy Party Conference

“It would also look at preventing the introduction of the concept of the “15-minute city” – where essential amenities are always within a 15-minute walk.” – Rishi Sunak The latest spasm of invented grievance and badly disguised conspiracism is a hybrid of post-covid paranoia and the recently invented defence of the ‘war on the motorist’. […] Source

Doppelganger a Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein in conversation with Gemma Milne at the Edinburgh launch of her new book Doppelganger a Trip into the Mirror World. Lighthouse Books write: “This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass.It’s for anyone […] Source