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The problem with Scotland’s press… in an American newspaper. 26 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
The journalist Peter Geoghegan has written an excellent summary of some of the issues surrounding the press and the independence referendum. Its basic points are a lesson to people on both side of the...
Man paid to write article setting out his true beliefs – shock! 22 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
In the latest round of silly season frothing for the Holyrood bubble, the No campaign and others have gotten their knickers in a twist about this – an article written by Elliot Bulmer for the Herald. ...
Fracking is not just an issue for a small corner of England 19 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
As I write this Caroline Lucas MP is being detained in the back of a police van and likely making her way to a charge desk for her part in the anti-fracking protests in the sleepy English village of B...
The Festival: Classic or Classism? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
The 1990’s was the era when popular culture was co-opted by the establishment. The resurrected brand ‘Cool Britannia’ existed to provide advocacy and endorsement to political figures. Bands and arts f...
A Niceway To Die 13 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
The ’Niceway Code’ is not just about appeasing cyclists – it is typical of a government increasingly tokenistic and out touch with the challenges it faces. The Scottish Government recently launche...
This is what fear looks like 7 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
There’s been a lot of Holyrood-bubble drama around LabourForIndy recently. Who’s that in their photos? When did you join Labour? Is it even real? It might seem like the phoniest of wars, but it’s happ...
Land reform for football 4 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
As per the Greens’ 2011 manifesto, Alison Johnstone MSP is proposing that football fans get first refusal when their clubs come up for sale. Teams aren’t just a business like any other: they’re often ...
On the reporting of data. 2 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Good solid data is loved by the political and media classes, unless of course it points in the wrong direction. Then it’s an outlier, within the margin of error, set with an inappropriate baseline, or...
What it would have taken for me to be against independence. 1 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
I keep telling people I’m a non-nationalist for independence, but they don’t believe me. It’s true, though. I never grew up dreaming of independence, nor was it something that I particularly thought a...
Soylent Green is… not real. 26 Jul 2013 | 10:25 pm
As has been covered by the UK-wide Green blog Bright Green, there has been a bit of a stooshie amongst some unreformed environmentalists after the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Nata...
