Voting Sham
By Mike Small This editor has been busier than a BP lawyer in the last few days so to catch-up on some great commentary that’s been hitting the informational super-highways Continue reading
Monthly Archives
Archive for: July 2010
Troops Out
By Mike Small Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. - George Orwell Afghanistan is little more than a sanitised bloodbath and if Cameron and Continue reading
A Lesson from Snowdonia
By Christopher Harvie I In 1966 I spent Easter working on the Festiniog Railway, then running about half its length from the old slate port of Porthmadog towards Blaenau Festiniog Continue reading
Crack Capitalism
“Crack Capitalism”, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of ‘cracks’ in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of Continue reading
McKaskill, Obama and the Black Black Oil
By Mike Small Question: When an alcoholic leaves a bar, gets behind the wheel and drunkenly drives into his third or fourth wreck, do you blame the bartender who served Continue reading
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
You are invited to a ‘Taste of Freedom: organic coffee and autonomous communities in Mexico’, a workshop each morning to kick-start the Head Zone at the Big Tent Festival. Taste Continue reading
Please don’t kill the cute little Japanese babies
There’s a fascinating award-winning documentary being screened on More 4 tonight which will be of particular interest to those who find Japanese people adorable, relatively smart, and hilarious when they Continue reading
Tom & Gerry
By Doug the Dug Tom Miers has been in the news lately with his report from the think tank, “Policy Exchange”, entitled, “The Devolution Distraction”. I thought I’d take a Continue reading
From Congo with Love
The Big Tent, Scotland’s environmental festival (23rd-25th July) launches this Friday 23rd July with the first showing outside London of renowned photographer Rankin’s ‘From Congo with Love’.
Breaking the Silence of Scottish Men
By Gerry Hassan This essay is written as a contribution to starting a debate which is crucial and critical for Scotland’s future: the state of Scottish men. We urgently need Continue reading
English Fascists Jailed
This is interesting given the frequent attempt by some to portray the EDL as a benign force detached from the rest of the fascist and nazi movement in England. The Continue reading
