Beyond Tribal Politics
Independent journalism and commentary on politics, society, culture, climate and Scotland’s future.
Scottish Government’s greatest financial asset is… student loans
When student loans have become the Scottish government’s biggest financial asset and one in six Scots of working age owes outstanding loan…
EVEL: a cure worse than the disease
Trucking to English nationalism via EVEL is Anglo-centric small-mindedness – and threatens the sustainable, long-term future of the UK, argues a leading…
Submission: a scepticism that questions scepticism
Michel Houellebecq, ever controversial, imagines France shunning centre-left and -right and voting for an Islamic republic to defeat Marine Le Pen’s Front…
Going global: Corbyn public ownership push
Jeremy Corbyn is pilloried for urging renationalisation of vital public services but he’s simply part of a growing international trend to repair…
Privatising Scottish water: the issue gets even murkier
The Scottish Government has been trying to push its so-called plans to hand ownership and control of business water usage to a…
Bold Reekie: a poetry slam with a difference
Big words, bigger picture, fine detail. A grand scheme for poetry writ large on a scaffolding banner on a building site in…
Landscapes of Communism: the Soviet Union’s architectural legacy
What might a non-capitalist architecture look like? Owen Hatherley’s Landscapes of Communism takes a tour through the architectural legacy of the Soviet…
Osborne’s nuclear nonsense economics
George Osborne has been in China offering taxpayers’ money to subsidise its entry into the UK energy sector with French state-owned EDF…
Robots, the digital economy and fair shares for all
Prof Richard Freeman, co-director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, calls in this interview for wider ownership of…
Saving the Union from the unionists
A year on: there may be a time for a Big Debate on how the UK and its peoples define identity and…
Reshoring Scotland: the case for a manufacturing revival
In announcing her Programme for Government at the start of this month, the First Minister committed to publishing a Manufacturing Action Plan…
Unions risk cutting off their noses over EU
Labour’s new leader Jeremy Corbyn and some union leaders are indicating they might back #Brexit in the pending referendum. But British unions…