Category Archive: Arts & Culture
A Future Equality
I know some people will say ‘What’s this got to do with independence?!’ It has everything to do with independence. Winning the battle for Yes is NOT about competing on the same economic… Read More
Abandoned Scotland
Kelvingrove Park Bandstand Seminary St Peter’s Cardross More at Abandoned Scotland here.
The World Over
Hat’s off to the amazing folks at Blipfoto…
Positivity
By Mike Small Pundits seem to be coalescing around the idea that a ‘positive message’ is an essential part of political campaigning (nothing new here, see Pat’s Juggernaut of Joy thesis). Whether it’s… Read More
Beyond Knoxian Theatre
By Thom Cross Scotland does it all the time. We were taught it at school and in the street, by grannies and the meenister; more significantly (ominously?) by our Scottish? media the BBC,… Read More
Scotland 3.0
Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland.
Infinitely Demanding
…we are entering into a period of increasingly massive social dislocations and disorder which harbors within it countless risks, defeats, dangers, false dawns and fake defeats. But…we are all coming to the powerful… Read More
Dave’s Big Adventure
This is a terrible decision for Britain but potentially good news for Scottish independence. A reconstituted eurozone could offer a safe haven from the crazies of big business Bullingdon and hedgefunds represented by British Govt PLC.
Keep Scotland in Britain
This from the Evening NEWS. A CROSS-PARTY “Keep Scotland in Britain” campaign is expected to be launched in the new year to counter the SNP’s drive for independence. Reports today said former Chancellor… Read More
Do Words Have Voices?
Huge hearty Bellalicious congratulations to Martin Boyce for winning the Turner Prize 2011 with his wonderful spooky installations. This completes a hat-trick for Scotland, following fellow Scots artists Susan Philipsz and Richard Wright,… Read More
Food, Fairness and the Fife Diet
By Douglas Strang In ‘The Great Tablecloth’, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda conjures for us the sensual pleasures of the plate – “In the blue hour of eating, / the infinite hour of… Read More
No Surprises
By Michael Greenwell “In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did… Read More
Revolutions in Reverse
Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason… Read More
No More Bling on the Bone
By Doug Strang Opening Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality, and the Future, at the Pearce Institute, curator Alastair McIntosh cited Damien Hirst’s piece ‘For the Love of God’ as an example of the… Read More
Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
by Kevin Williamson The distinctly un-Christian attempts to evict the Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral have been an eye-opener, revealing ungodly facets of the modern day church’s worldly… Read More
Kandinsky in Govan
Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist, so what’s he doing in Govan? Alastair McIntosh, the organiser of the three day festival celebrating ‘art, spirituality and the… Read More
Us Unemployed Expendable Youth
And there are those that say we should stop talking about Thatcher…
Always got a Line for the Ladies…
We would like to distance ourselves from this sick association. The Tories are waging a war on the disenfranchised. They are the enemy…
From John Maclean to Tahrir Square?
Internationalism From Below – from John Maclean to Tahrir Square? Talks, films and discussion with: Allan Armstrong, Unity, Maud Bracke, Camcorder Guerillas and Deryck de Maine Beaumont. 7pm-10:00pm, Wednesday 12th October 2011, Kinning… Read More
