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Grey Granite: Grassic Gibbon revisited
I wrote this piece in early 2020 pre-lockdown and never published it at the time. Please enjoy this B-side from the Flett-cetera discography. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the short-lived novelist most famous for his Scots Quair trilogy. Sunset Song, the … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged capitalism, Ewan Tavendale, freedom, Grey Granite, history, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, revolutionism, Scots Quair, socialism, strikes, violence, workers
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From St Magnus to St Mungo
You may have read a few blogs ago about my endeavour to create a repository of all human history as the ultimate pub quiz database, entitled “General Knowledge” and consisting of dozens of roughly seven-minute videos starting with early man … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Glasgow, history, Law, Law Clinic, pilgrimage, St Magnus, St Magnus Way, University, Zoom
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General Knowledge
It’s May. At the end of the month, we could be heading into phase one of lifting lockdown. Had it not been for Coronavirus, the tourist season would be ramping up in Orkney and I’d be fulltime Skara Brae. As … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Personal experience, Politics
Tagged Americas, Charles Mann, general knowledge, Greece, history, life, lockdown, Rome, Shakespeare
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1979
I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. […] The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience, Politics
Tagged 1979, 20th Century Women, feminism, history, HyperNormalisation, Ian Curtis, Jimmy Carter, Joy Division, life, Neolithic, Scotland, Skara Brae, work
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Runic ramblings
Runes are more than writing, just as writing is more than the transcription of the spoken word. When someone carves a rune, they are doing more than just saving the game up to that point; they are casting their line … Continue reading
10 YouTube Channels worth Subscribing To
We all use YouTube, quite a lot of us on a daily basis, but I’ve found that as a conversation piece it usually falls flat. Often one of the parties is struggling to grasp just exactly what made a certain … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Politics
Tagged 2015, alternative, art, comedy, history, IKEA, indie, languages, music, news, philosophy, politics, Victorious Sponge, videos, YouTube
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