Envisioning Real Scotland
In collaboration with Newsnet Scotland we have commissioned a series of articles looking forward to the year ahead in Scotland: Hopes and Visions 2011. Read the first of these on how to make… Read More
Monthly Archive: December, 2010
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Lennon vs Bono
By Mark Engler Effective celebrity activists use their fame to bring attention and credibility to legitimate representatives of social movements. That, in a nutshell, is my standard of celebrity activism done right. Ineffective… Read More
Tommy’s Troubles
Six in a parliament should be remembered over four in a bed. Telling truth to power should be remembered over telling lies in court.
The Ethical Governor
This from John Butler a Glasgow based digital animator. John is fascinated by ‘the long war’ between humans and finance, which he sees today as people battle with processes such as Government cuts. His latest piece… Read More
The Scotland Bill is Broken
It is not too much to say that the Calman income tax proposals could become Labour’s very own Poll Tax in Scotland.
Solstice Sunday
By Mhairi McGregor The papers are snowtastic this weekend, informing us helpfully that it’s er, been snowing. It had passed me by here in sunny Dee. But buried beneath the fall is the… Read More
Poverty Porn and the Broken Society
By Gerry Mooney and Lynn Hancock We are living in the deepest recession and economic crisis since the 1930s, yet for successive governments and for large sections of the media there is another… Read More
Jody McIntyre and the Descent of the BBC
By Andrew Hardie Below we show an interview with Jody McIntyre, a disabled protestor who was attacked by the police. The interview borders on the comic as the interviewer seems to show their… Read More
The Old Flamingo Ballroom
By Mike Small You won’t be able to read this article. The whole country’s ‘going gaelic’. It will be compulsory next. Of course it won’t really but it’s the sort of cultural of… Read More
New Public Thinkers
by Mike Small In the week that the Tory-Liberals have signed the death-knell for democratic access to higher education in England, and on the day where Alex Salmond has responded by saying he… Read More
Mobs and Monarchs
By The Heckler On 29 October 1795, George III was on his way to open Parliament, when his carriage was surrounded by a crowd calling for ‘peace’, ‘bread’, ‘no war’ and ‘no King’.… Read More
Wikileaks 101
Wikileaks Julian Assange interviewed on TED by Chris Anderson, very good background on the project, how it works and a sense of Assange as a person (thanks to Mike for this). Warning this… Read More
Liar Liar Liar
Thanks to Murdo for this from THE Captain SKA…”Liberal values at the heart of British Government”
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy”
Thanks to Troops Out for this: In a national broadcast exclusive interview world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speaks about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by… Read More
La Flama de tot un Poble en Moviment
The Lip Dub for Independence is a self-evidently powerful demonstration of national solidarity intended to reach out to the world to let it know that Catalonia has survived as a nation despite Castilian efforts to suppress it and oppress it.
The Big Chill
By Joe Middleton In a way, Christmas has come early this year. After all, every year we have “White Christmas”, “Let it Snow” and other such tinsel trash inflicted on us in November… Read More
Gruniad’s Demise
By Mike Small The Guardian matters in a way that few other newspapers do. It’s got history, gravitas and crucially it cracked its online presence from the start and has been steadily whooping… Read More
