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29th January 2026

WEALTH OR WASTE : Edinburgh and the Extractive Economy by Malcolm Fraser

Is it safe for modernist architecture to come out yet? It's certainly not safe, from a sustainable point of view, to knock all the modernist buildings down. -No matter what the tourists might want in our 'heritage capitals'. As the Belfast taxi drivers say: 'There's two histories here, ye know.' Malcolm Fraser considers another looming crater in the hollowing out of the city and its potential reconstruction as part of the pretty stage set.
14th January 2026

PowerShift: the real energy question by Indra Adnan and Pat Kane, Spring Consortium

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

KILBRYDE: Raymond Burke’s new novel reviewed by Federica Giardino

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...