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2w ago
Every movement has its mix of “Stone throwers, alternative builders and institutional plodders. They hate each other and they need each other…” from Lesley Riddoch’s State of Scottish Democracy Lecture ..read more
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2w ago
This piece was first published on Basedrones, the blog by Malcolm Combe dedicated to issues of land reform, housing and independence. It’s the most comprehensive analysis of the current Land Reform legislation passing through Holyrood. Let’s go ’round again, Maybe we’ll turn back the hands of time, Let’s go ’round again, One more time ..read more
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3w ago
On 7 October, Israel launched an extensive aerial bombardment across all areas of Gaza, hitting homes, hospitals, clinics, schools and essential infrastructure. This has resulted in mass casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Since then: More than 30,717 Palestinians have been killed, around 51% of whom are children and women. Thousands more are thought to ..read more
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1M ago
Gigha has long been lauded as one of the great successes of the community land buyout movement. When the community bought their island in 2002 they put Gigha in the vanguard of the Scottish land reform movement, with the innovative Gigha Halibut project (now closed) and the ‘Dancing Sisters’ Gigha Battery Project, the first community-owned ..read more
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1M ago
Message from This is Rigged: From 10AM this morning four people with This is Rigged have climbed and defaced the UK Government offices in Edinburgh (Queen Elizabeth House) in a protest against Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Catriona Roberts, 21, sprayed the glass front of the building with a fire extinguisher full of ..read more
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1M ago
Like thousands of others I can’t afford to live in the city I grew up in. The housing crisis – in its many dimensions – means social cleansing, in the case of Edinburgh this has an added element of art-washing and a city re-designed almost exclusively for the tourist industry. Huge numbers of people have ..read more
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1M ago
This article is about exposing the violence and flaws at the root of plans to destroy St Fittick’s Park in Torry, Aberdeen for a so called ‘Energy Transition Zone’ (ETZ). The ETZ proposals first surfaced from the murky water of Aberdeen’s draft Local Development Plan (LDP) in 2019. The LDP was the process through which ..read more
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1M ago
This is a great offer from our friends at Philosophy Football! EXCLUSIVE OFFER FROM BELLA CALEDONIA: JUST £19.95, usual price £27 Philosophy Football’s Calcutta Cup four-in-a row tee. 1896. The last time Scotland won four Calcutta Cups in a row Queen Victoria was on the throne, the Klondike Gold Rush and televised sport would have ..read more
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1M ago
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot Leonardo Da Vinci Two roe deer, a doe and her fawn, watched me from the edge of the wood as I pedaled up the Cromlix track from the Auchinlay Road. They waited until we could look into one another’s eyes ..read more
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1M ago
“UK must stop arming Israel or be complicit in war crimes” says Sharyn Lock, a midwife who carries Israeli bullet in abdomen. I am a midwife, but before that I was a human rights volunteer in Palestine. As such, I know what it is like to be targeted by an Israeli bullet. I am raising ..read more