Bruce is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Edinburgh and an independent writer and researcher. He completed his existential and phenomenological informed training in psychoanalysis with the Philadelphia Association in London. The Philadelphia Association was founded by the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing and others in 1965. He is also a trained experimental psychologist (University of Southampton, PhD) and he conducted […]
Month: October 2016
Debra Torrance
Debra Torrance is the youngest daughter of a bookkeeper and a butcher. A late baby, her parents were preparing to become Nanna and Pops not new a mum and dad again. Debra was brought up in the east end of Glasgow and moved around Scotland from the highlands to Fife before settling in Milngavie. She […]
Victoria Pearson
Victoria Pearson is a writer and mum of four who lives behind a keyboard in Bedfordshire, England. Having always wanted to be a writer, V started to think it was an achievable dream when she wrote and edited a feature for the Guardian when she was 17. Following that, she appeared live on the Richard […]
Red Raiph
After his mysterious arrival on Twitter in 2012, tenteen-year-old Red Raiph, set out to change the world for the better — one tweet at a time. Passionate about politics, equality and independence for Scotland, he uses his own brand of humour to entertain and inform both young and old alike. A published author and prolific […]
Chuck Hamilton
Chuck Hamilton was born 27 June 1963 in a building literally a hundred yards from his current flat, which is also directly across the street from the university where he got his bachelor’s in political science in 1985. While at UTC Chuck helped establish a social activist organization on campus that later put on one […]
Neil Scott
Neil has been politically active all his adult life, and identified as “Socialist” after stealing a book on Marx from his (UK) state school library when he was 14. Hailing originally and loudly from County Down, he moved to Scotland in 1993 as a mature student after ten years of unsuccessfully working, mostly in pubs, […]
#Yes2, the International Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media!
Yes2, the Internationalist Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media! In this episode we have Neil Scott talking about the internationalist outlook of a new Independent Scotland, Ruth Hopkins on the plight of the Native American Water protectors in North Dakota and Amber Daniels on the Screams of the Traditional Media and Chuck Hamilton […]
The Zarjaz Spirit of Independence and Rebellion…
Eric Joyce on Labour and Independence; Ruth Hopkins on the North Dakotan Pipeline; Debra Torrance on the iniquity our society metes out on the disabled; Wee Red Raiph (wit cin go rang?), Jagdeesh Singh on the national struggle for freedom in the Punjab; Victoria Pearson‘sshort story, “Finding God” read by Neil Anderson; Matt Geraghty on […]
Two Furra Pound
Our new podcast! Two Furra Pound Over caffeinated conversation on IndependenceLive.net HERE (mentioned by @nwsocialist and Chuck Hamilton on thepodcast) Music by: Hand of Dog The Blackheart Orchestra The Unholy A-Men The Tuts Joe Solo Steve White and the Protest Family The Wakes The Hurriers The Cundeez