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Love Life (Sept)
Freedom, in Scotland and elsewhere, isn’t something that is given by governments or other authorities. It’s something that’s practiced. And not just in social movements or halls of power. It’s part of...
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Braehead Big Brother
By Ewan Morrison Given that we live in an era in which, as one politician once claimed- ‘it’s your duty to shop’ and at which time that civic duty of consumption increasingly involves buying cheap...
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Letter to a Dead Man
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year — with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the...
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The Upside of Austerity
The up side to austerity is the realisation of the worthless con that is material greed on which the house of cards of collapsing economies rely.
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Materialism’s High Price
Tim Kasser – who spoke at St Andrews University Sustainability Institute on Tuesday night: Filed under: Collapsononics, Consumer Culture, Death of Capitalism, Identity Tagged: Tim Kasser
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Do We Know it’s Christmas?
“Christmas always seems that most English of festivals – from the cathedrals, to the music, to the food, to the commercialism, to the landscapes. Across the Channel, the feast has preserved more of its...
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A Deep Democracy for Scotland
By Justin Kenrick Between now and 2014 do we need a society-wide dialogue on how best to trail-blaze the rebuilding of resilient communities in a resilient ecology? As Svenja Meyerricks put it in her...
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Pedagogy of the Connected
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad In Amusing Ourselves to Death, a prophetic work on the impact of television on culture, the late media scholar Neil Postman compared two dystopias. One was George Orwell’s...
View ArticlePizza the Polar Bear
The plight of ‘Pizza’ the polar bear currently residing in a Chinese shopping centre is probably the most pitiful thing you will read about in a long time, certainly since Cecil the Lion and Walter the...
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