“Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. In this episode, Olúfẹ́mi and Kelly talk about protest, why large “awareness raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times. Source

Cosmonauts and Stale Porridge, Alexander Trocchi’s Influence on Radical Scottish Media, exploring Scotland’s radical publishing traditions. This is adapted from a talk at the Trocchi at 100 event in the Kelvinhall Glasgow organised by the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies. The Glasgow-born writer Alexander Trocchi, […] Source

NEXT month is a milestone for North Yell. On July 14 the first house purchased by the local development trust will be let, and its new tenant will move in Source

IN 1314, 19 brave men marched from a tiny village in Fife marched to Bannockburn to fight for Scotland’s independence and, miraculously, they all came back. Source

THE BEAUTY OF OUR WEAPONS – From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn. “With regard to human affairs, not to laugh, not to cry, not to become indignant, but to understand.” So wrote Spinoza, the 17th century Portuguese-Jewish philosopher. His family migrated from Portugal and the Inquisition to the more enlightened Dutch Republic. […] Source

About £1200 of sporting equipment taken from container. …

Displays from BMX riders and a wide array of cars were a treat for visitors to an annual event. …

A top accolade awarded awarded to a local beach has been welcomed by the local MP. …

A BUS operator has axed all services with immediate effect after the firm entered liquidation … Source

‘THE Labour Party’s national insurance tax hike is destroying jobs, squeezing wages and choking off economic growth,” the SNP has said after figures today show the number of people on payrolls fell by 55,000 between March and April this year Source

A FORMER Sky Sports presenter has been banned as a director after his company went into administration owing investors more than £10 million … Source

A bus operator has axed all of its services after entering ‘liquidation’. Source

THE Church of Scotland has “without warning” served an eviction notice to a Palestinian crafts shop operating out of one of its properties in Edinburgh Source

In September 2024 I was criticised for writing the following sentence: “We have a black mirror in history with Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto and a dreadful symmetry between Arendt’s Banality of Evil and the depravity of the Two Nice Jewish Boys podcast.” [The Most Documented Genocide in History]. The idea of comparing the situation […] Source