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Update: you need to look at Big Smoke  and my personal site  for my latest work. Thanks. A few eagle-eyed regular readers have pointed out...

This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act which heralded the beginning of the war on drugs (a term first used by ...

I dearly wish computers were less helpful. Right now my spellcheck is in French and I have absolutely no idea how to change it. How does it ...

A friend of mine is involved in Cable Street to Brick Lane a film project charting 75 years of anti-fasicsm in the East End. Looks good. ...

This may make no sense what-so-ever but I've been thinking about water. More specifically I've been thinking about our attitude to t...

I've been reading a week is a long time for ages now, Jo felt I should show it some love. Happy to oblige. I may not have linked to A...

Thanks to Dwight Towers for this very useful and comrehensive guest post on climate politics in Australia, a hot topic in more ways than on...

I'm told this was an electricians' demonstration this weekend in Mexico. I like the fact the motorcyclist has decided that this is...

Every face in this picture is a treat, but I'm particularly keen on the school girl in the middle: she is just not impressed. Feel f...

Sometimes it takes 36 years to clear your name. See George Davis . I thought Cath Elliott 's piece on the rape debate was one of the m...

I'll put something right upfront, one career opportunity I'd like to see disappear from the world has the job description 'fuck ...

Where are the women in rebel music? Old news but irritating. Scottish Wind farms paid to stop producing energy . An interesting piece by...

Top Soil is a consistently excellent blog. Today they have a post keeping it clear on date rape . Sunny points out that getting tough on cr...

I know I'm a bit slow with this as I get the blog back on track but I thought I'd give a very quick overview of the Scottish electio...

I've not welcomed any new blogs recently (even if they aren't always technically 'new' except to me); Young and Well Red i...

It's been a while - so let's catch up with some good news; Ali Dizaei has been released from prison. I've been following his c...

Here are the ten areas with the strongest YES to AV vote... notice anything about them? Hackney 60.68% Glasgow Kelvin ...

This morning I attended the swearing in of the two new Green MSPs at Holyrood. The experienced and battle hardened Patrick Harvie (Glasgow,...

Jeff from Better Nation kindly consented to write a guest post on how close the Greens were in Scotland to getting more MSPs. I think the f...

Now the dust is settling I thought I'd quickly summarise the lessons from the AV campaign for the next referendum (!). As always in poli...