Mike Small

The idea of Edinburgh as just an advertising space that you literally project commodities onto couldn’t be more apt. But for those of us (and there are many) who have been warning of the gros…

Corporate media in Scotland is bland and uniform. Not only is it overwhelmingly, disproportionately male pale and stale (Pass the Mic report that only 2.1% of those quoted or interviewed in the new…

Discussion about how to stop the rise of Reform UK ranges from how to stop the spread of far-right ideas in culture and society, meaning the spread of bigotry and hatred, through to ‘how do I…

Labour in Scotland made very specific promises in last year’s general election about the under-threat plant at Grangemouth. “We would step in to save the jobs at the refinery and to inv…

Today brings us to another of our regular series featuring zines and comics, small press news and micro-publishing. Got a story? Drop us a line HERE. Spycops Comic You may have been mesmerised/appa…

A post on Linked In by Documentary filmmaker Peter Strachan has gone viral with over 75k views, exposing the shockingly few numbers of people employed on the hit tv show The Traitors come from Scot…

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ masterpiece is regularly cited as the greatest film ever made. The film and tv obsession with media moguls hasn’t really ceased, with Jesse Armstrong’s…

As 2024 closes we’re taking feedback from readers and writers. That Typeform survey was a bit useless. First time I’d used it. Here are the Questions we asked and the (anonymous) answer…

Edinburgh’s decline into a theme park has been charted for years, and the recent victory to Save the People’s Story stands out as an exception against a backdrop of relentless social cl…

This is a great piece by Alan Rusbridger (former editor of the Guardian) here in which he explains ‘How the government captured the BBC’ why the BBC’s coverage of Israel is so bia…