Sweeping Up Glass
"Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness" Tom Paine, Rights of Man. I watched London consumed by fire on Monday…
Alienation: Jimmy Reid
Today, on the first anniversary of his death, we are pleased to re-print the address made by the great Scottish trade unionist and journalist Jimmy Reid on his election as…
Hutting: A social Revolution waiting to happen
In Scotland, in Britain and in most of the Western world we have a profoundly dysfunctional relationship with work and leisure. For too many of us living for the weekend,…
Red Tories, Blue Labour? What they mean is alienation.
‘Alienation is the precise and correctly applied word for describing the major social problem in Britain today. People feel alienated by society. In some intellectual circles it is treated almost…