Mike Small

Written looking back at the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, November 2024. The last few months have simplified and revealed some of the deeper questions at play ten years…

Alex Salmond has died at the untimely age of only 69. He leaves a contested and complex legacy. There is no doubt that he carried the SNP and the wider cause of Scottish nationalism from a position…

The closure of the People’s Story museum in Edinburgh is only the latest in a long process of marginalisation and erasure of local people from the city itself.  Like many people from Edinburg…

Oasis may be re-forming but Britpop isn’t. D:ream’s ‘Things can only get better’ has turned into a nightmare. Labour’s new miserabilism – “things can only …

It’s said that, in August, if you listen quietly in Teviot or on the Mound you can actually hear the sound of money being sucked out of the city. There is a neat symmetry to the announcement …

In a week when Gaza’s health ministry said 40,005 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza after the 7 October attack by Hamas last year and that 92,401 Palestinians had…

WE can make two observations at the same time, first that Scotland is not immune to racism and bigotry, and second that this is a particularly English phenomenon of ethnonationalism we’re wit…

As the intensity of the attacks on civilians, women and children fleeing to supposedly ‘safe’ territory increases in Rafah, so too does the nature of the protests here. Despite ongoing …

The unspeakable horrors of the war on Gaza have, improbably, got worse. Laith Arafeh, Ambassador; Head of the Palestine Mission to the Federal Republic of Germany, writes: “One day after the …

In response to the demands made by Fossil Free Books, Hay Festival has announced it will suspend its sponsorship from Baillie Gifford. Authors have withdrawn from Hay Festival, including Dawn Butle…