Turning Glasgow Green

We may not be Brighton or Bristol, but something special is happening in Scotland’s biggest city by Paul Mason, Glasgow Greens Co-Convenor. I am one of the Glasgow Green Party Organisers in the West of the city and Kate Bell is over in the East End. We live on opposite sides of the city and […] Source

Has anyone seen Anas?

Spare thought for poor Anas Sarwar, who rarely misses an opportunity to brush off his best sneery face and take to the airwaves on BBC Scotland, sticking it to the SNP. He must have been so looking forward to the gloatathon that his branch office winning the Westminster general election in…

It’s Labour’s two child cap on benefits now

The Labour Party has said that it will withdraw the party whip from any MP who votes to scrap the two-child benefit cap tonight. The Labour party is punishing its MPs who vote to repeal a Tory measure which has been described as an engine driving a huge growth in child…

Fifty Six Degrees North with Bram E Gieben

I talked to the writer, podcaster and musician Bram E Gieben about his new book The Darkest Timeline and what it means to “live in a world with no future”. You can listen to his podcast Strange Exiles here: Strange Exiles | Substack You can catch Bram at book launches at Lighthouse Books and All […] Source

Two-faced: Tom Nairn’s Faces of Nationalism Revisited

Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited, Tom Nairn, Verso Books Reviewed by David McCrone In an essay on Thomas Carlyle in London Review of Books (14th Dec 2023), the writer Stefan Collini commented on Tom Nairn’s ‘caustic Scottish sarcasm’. Certainly, Tom took no prisoners in his writing, while in person he was a gentle soul, always […] Source