This piece originally appeared on Allan’s website 2016 has been some year so far. A year in which Scotland once again failed to qualify for an international football tournament and 2 months into the new qualifiers already look out of the next one. A year which every celebrity is wondering if they will […]
Writers & Contributors
Fuad Alakbarov
Fuad Alakbarov is an Azerbaijani-Scottish political activist and human rights defender. He is known mainly for human rights advocacy for refugees, anti-racism and anti-poverty campaigns. Alakbarov is a columnist for the Mind Waves, a NHS-funded project which raises public awareness about mental health issues. He also covers refugee crisis, geopolitics and conflict worldwide for openDemocracy […]
Philip Kane
Portrait drawn by Raiph from a photo by Grace Sanchez Philip Kane is an award-winning writer, storyteller and artist whose books include The Wildwood King(Capall Bann, 1997) and The Hicklebaum Papers (Mezzanine Press, 2010), as well as his most recent poetry collection, Unauthorised Person (Cultured Llama, 2012). A new collection of poems, The Decipherment of […]
Thomas Swann
Thomas Swann completed his PhD at the University of Leicester School of Management in September 2015 and is currently a Research Associate at Loughborough University working on constitutionalising and rule-making in anarchist politics. He is a member of the international advisory board of the journal Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies and in 2014 co-edited a […]
Tommy Ball
Tommy Ball has been involved in progressive politics for over a decade. From Scottish National Party activist to Executive Committee member of the Scottish Socialist Party, he has pounded the streets and tenements of Glasgow and beyond delivering leaflets, speaking at pro-Independence events, and standing – generally unsuccessfully – for election in the Socialist interest. […]
Sandra Webster
Sandra Webster is a carer to two children. Both her boys live on the autistic spectrum and have other health issues. Sandra was inspired by her children to become an activist, especially round caring and health issues. She likes to write and believes that true change in our society only happens when we talk to […]
Ruth McAteer
Ruth McAteer is the joint youngest, with her twin sister, of four kids. She grew up in Milton Of Campsie and now resides in her wee one bedroom bungalow in Kirkintilloch. She began working for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in 2001. Her first exposure to political activism was as a baby when her mother […]
Red Raiph Writing
Poetry Raiph’s Alfybet A poem fur a Inorgerayshun You can see Ralph’s Ungagged Art here
Roy Møller Writing
Poetry Seaside Perimeters Hot Desk First We Take Manhattan
Roy Møller
Roy Moller was born in Edinburgh on 3rd July, 1963. Conceived in Toronto, adopted and raised in Leith, he attended Strathclyde University, where he won a poetry prize. He promptly put writing poems to one side for 25 years to concentrate on songwriting, singing and playing the guitar in singular dyspraxic style. A long, chequered […]