Kenmure Street not Downing Street

Four years ago, on May 13, 2021, Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they had been detained. “…a nation that walks forward together” you could say. In the face of a surround-sound of vicious […] Source

John Couzin, in Memoriam

John Couzin, in Memoriam for Stasia Rice. When we talk about the Spirit of Revolt archive we’re talking about history, our history, and our history is radical history. It is a marginalised and often suppressed history. I mean by that that it is kept from us. There is no conspiracy. We can speak of it […] Source

Broken Britain, Scotland’s Opportunity

British politics is being remade before our eyes, the consequence of decades of failure, grotesque social inequality and the collapse of living standards. These are the conditions in which the politics of grievance and hate thrive. The far-right are predictably jubilant. Allison Pearson, writing in the Telegraph shouts (‘A new dawn has broken – and […] Source

How polls turn a lead for Yes into a lead for No

You may have seen that a poll on support for Scottish independence was published this week. The headline figures on the poll, carried out by Survation, put No ahead on 44%, with Yes on 43% and undecided on 12%. When the undecideds were stripped out, this gave a result of 50.57%…

Iain MacWhirter gets it wrong again

Former Herald columnist Iain MacWhirter has completed his journey from semi-detached sympathiser with Scottish independence – although he never fully abandoned his delusional hopes of a federal UK – to fully fledged cheerleader for the British establishment. MacWhirter always used to position himself as one of those “critical friends” that the…

Broken Britain: Flux, Collapse and Stasis

A snapshot of the past week on Britain’s dramatically changing politics. Reform surge in England and talk about how young people need “moral re-education” about how great the Empire was and how to “love Britain.”    Labour collapses in the local elections in England and Keir Starmer’s response is to talk of doing the same […] Source