Change Begins

The true nature of the Starmer Labour party is on display in Liverpool this week, its quite the reveal. The crowds cheered as protestors were dragged out of the hall shouting: “We are still selling arms to Israel! I thought we had voted for change Rachel…” before being dragged out by security and put in […] Source

TEN YEARS AFTER: From The Province Of The Cat

Ten years after the independence referendum of September 18th 2014 we live in a society run by political technocrats. You can call Alex Salmond anything you like – and many do – but  he was never a technocrat. What is strange about September 2024 is how similar it looks, politically, to 1997. A new “New Labour” […] Source

Wild Seeds Beneath the Snow

Edinburgh has a profusion of community garden projects injecting energy and optimism into marginal areas in the city. This article looks at a selection of these projects through the lens of  the ‘anarchist’ ideas of communal association.  The lockdown revealed many disparities in our society. One was the very different lockdown experiences had by those […] Source

Ten years on

On Wednesday it will be the tenth anniversary of the independence referendum. This is always a poignant time of year for me, not only because of the what might have been had Scotland grasped the thistle and chosen independence on that fateful day, but because this time of year is also…