Mhairi has been a councillor in Glasgow since 2012, representing Southside Central Ward which comprises Queen’s Park, Crosshill, Govanhill, Laurieston, Gorbals and Oatlands. A self-confessed SNP hack, she worked in SNP HQ between 1997-2007 before working as Nicola Surgeon’s constituency manager until 2016. In 2017 the SNP were elected to run Glasgow City Council and […]
Writers & Contributors
Prick Knobinson, Royal Correspondant
Philip Richard (P. Ric., or “Prick”) Knobinson-Canute is a journalist best known for his weekly column, “Last Orders,” in the high end magazine, “Fox and Turf,” and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London’s Soho district, […]
Laura Martin
Laura Martin Current PhD Candidate at the University of Strathclyde, specialising in data protection, privacy and workplace surveillance. My research focuses on whether the modern worker can be adequately protected from surveillance by data protection, privacy and the implied term of trust and confidence. I also lecture and tutor on various internet law, information technology […]
David McClemont Writing
News, Articles, and Opinion For Once the System Worked – And The Right are Furious About It Scotland’s Response to Katie Hopkins’ Hate Hollywood Director brought down by the Alt-right and his own stupidity New Blow to SAP as National Secretary Resigns From Party This is what a British Trump looks like Scottish Greens Co-convernors […]
Life In The Empire Part 3: The Shredded Fabric of Reality
Growing up American feels like the old metaphor of a fish being removed from the river. The fish has no concept of water itself because the liquid home is all it has ever known. Once it is yanked from the stream, its worldview is shattered. A new world has been discovered and the fish […]
Peace, Cigarettes, and Conspiracy…
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean On this episode we’ll be hearing from Red Raiph, talking about our theme “sure but they can afford to smoke”, Catriona Stevenson discussing state propaganda, and how it rewrites the horrors of the past and places the blame on the most vulnerable in society, Debra Torrance talking about the anatomy of a conspiracy, and Joe Solo, talking […]
David McClemont
David was born in Rutherglen Maternity Hospital in Glasgow in 1982 and spent most of his life in Cambuslang. He never left Glasgow but in 1995 Glasgow left him when local authority reorganisation rezoned Rutherglen & Cambuslang into the newly created South Lanarkshire. David has always been political, one of his earliest political memories is […]
You, Me, and the Digital Revolution
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean On this episode, themed around Digital Activism, Liz Castro, the Catalan based writer tells us what is going on there, and we have contributions from around the world and from across the social media activist world from George Collins, who asks if Facebook is making us Radical, Nelly Neal, talking about videogames […]
The G Word
As a gay woman I’ve been lucky enough to have a broad range of inspirational females to befriend. Recently there has been furious debate about the changes to the Gender Recognition Act. I have friends on both sides of the debate. As I consider myself to be a generally liberal feminist (in the literal […]
Resilience
Resilience My teacher taught me to be more resilient today. I fell and I cried, and I was embarrassed she saw me. But my teacher said, “life can be like that. Just pick yourself up again, and get on with it.” It started out an ordinary day. I had to get to school. Da’ had come round to […]