Browsing social media recently I came across one blogger who claimed that Covid-19 will be America’s Chernobyl. That seems a bit like hyperbole. Chernobyl, as history records, became a central part of Gorbachev’s Glasnost campaign which eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union (helped of course by the industrial level of corruption among […]
Tag: UK
From Catalonia to Calton – with Valentina Servera Clavell
Opposition to Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom has existed, in one for, or another, since its founding in 1707, often with anti-imperialist sentiment at its heart. The SNP were founded to campaign against it in 1934 and grew with the collapse of empire in the 1950s, and 60s, but only in the 1970s did […]
Why Tracey Ulmann, Blackpool, and I Ruined Utopia
This is an article Neil composed originally as a piece for Ungagged. The podcast it is part of is this one (details and timings are on the website) This also appears on his blog Utopias we want to build are always, of course, something much better than what we are part of at present. And […]
All we Are Saying…
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean On this episode, introduced by Neil Scott, we’ll have the late, great Ron Mackay talking utterly opposing war, Simone Charlesworth discussing fox hunting, Steve McAuliffe’s Spin Cycle, an election night broadcast, Em Dehaney performing Richard Wall’s poem Strong and Stable and Fuad Alakbarov will be speaking about […]