Jim Ritchie reviews Scotland After Britain, a new book on the Scottish independence movement. In it he finds an exceptional account of the changing class
Just Stop Oil blocking Westminster Bridge (Picture: Just Stop Oil) Climate group Just Stop Oil (JSO) began its indefinite occupation of Westminster with angry protests,
Enmeshed in a colonial relationship with the US and abandoned by their own establishment politicians, Puerto Ricans are being forced to forge their own recovery
United on the Enough is Enough King’s Cross rally in London (Picture: Guy Smallman) Around 4,000 people rallied outside King’s Cross Station in central London
The Fed has dropped all pretense of aiming for a “soft landing” as it ratchets up interest rates to fight inflation. It now openly admits
Published in 1985, Don DeLillo’s White Noise depicted an America blinded by consumerism. Ahead of Netflix’s adaptation of the novel, it’s worth revisiting DeLillo’s masterpiece,
Our resource-starved public education system is not equipped to handle the increasingly extreme heat, condemning students and teachers to sweltering classrooms. New school infrastructure is
In June, three months before Hurricane Ian battered Florida, Republican state legislators tried to halt a climate risk disclosure mandate for businesses. They also voted
The rise of trillion-dollar investment firms like BlackRock has resulted in a massive, unprecedented concentration of economic power. BlackRock’s Larry Fink may use green rhetoric,
Historians have underestimated the role of pandemics in changing the course of history. Long before the Black Death hit Europe, an outbreak of bubonic plague
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