TheDrouth
14th January 2026
The Spring Consortium propose powerful cohesive and holisitic steps across the board as THE way to confront locally the daily worsening global polycrisis which faces us in energy, sustainability rising fascism and revived imperialism and climate meltdown. The first big event is SATURDAY JANUARY 18TH at CELTIC CONNECTIONS in Glasgow - Get involved!
14th January 2026
Raymond Burke's new Bildungsroman about growing up in the new town of East Kilbride outdoes Scott and Gray at the same time: having the scope of both a historical novel and an existential modernist confession - Federica Giardino reviews...
14th January 2026
Wattana Songpetchmongkol brings his extensive research on walking to bear on Johnny Rodger's new book, and asks why do we walk?.. and ... Is a walk ever entirely your own walk?
16th August 2025
Not so much a Salon des Refuses or a Rogues Gallery as the unsung heroes who made the scene what it was? Jessica Wood previews and examines the work in the Unsung exhibition to be held at the British Art Fair 2025, and attempts to understand and rationalise why these artists may have remained outside the limelight.
6th August 2025
Scotland's greatest living Irish Historian on an Irish publication of Scottish writers on the state of Scotland. Owen Dudley Edwards casts a critical eye over the recently published Irish Pages Scotland issue.
18th July 2025
An exploration of the entanglement of art, ecology, and geopolitical violence through the translocation of a Palestinian olive tree sapling to a Scottish gallery space. Drawing on many sources including Aristophanes’ Peace, Michael Mersinis positions the olive tree sapling not as an object of aesthetic contemplation, but as a living, contested agent that disrupts dominant narratives of peace and belonging.
18th July 2025
The American founding fathers took classical Rome as the model for their new Republic. Huddled McMasses examines the development of that story in a tale of two films with classical, particularly Roman, avatars - Gladiator I and II. He sees American popular culture as a mirror held up to the current drift to greater authoritarianism and more rigid patriarchical political structures.
11th May 2025
The recent opening of the exhibition of drawings 'Tracing Rossi' at the Stallan Brand studio gallery in Glasgow offered an opportunity to examine author Cameron McEwan's in-depth published study of the influential architect Aldo Rossi. Via discussion of a relatively obscure and neglected project by Rossi, the book 'Analogical City' makes weighty claims for architecture as a poetic, political and above all, critical practice. Johnny Rodger reviews.
WEALTH OR WASTE : Edinburgh and the Extractive Economy by Malcolm Fraser