Journey to a chapel of war and hope
A journey to Orkney and a story of why Italian prisoners of war built a chapel on a Scottish island that became a symbol of hope.
Surveillance at an abandoned psychiatric hospital
Wandering around an abandoned psychiatric village outside Edinburgh
The Queen was after all, still dead
Is it over? Can I go to Centre Parcs now? Can I ride my bike? I may have had my operation cancelled or needed emergency access to the food bank but thank goodness I could feel proud to be British.
This isn’t England
This isn’t England. It’s a sub-Saharan dream. A cult film with characters drifting through a cinematic landscape of emptiness, rust, clutter and sea kale.
City secrets: outsider art and lost rooms
A city of lost rooms: where Jewish scholars vanish, artist seers battle their obsessions and twisted worlds thrive.
Civil disobedience in the shadow of a radical ancestor
2020 started with death and trauma. Then there was a pandemic. So, clearly civil disobedience was an entirely reasonable reaction. Yet my rebellion never strayed far from the path of a radical ancestor.
The ambiguity of roots
What is happening below ground? A Lynchian struggle, beautiful acts of collective solidarity or are the roots coming for us?
Cycling for freedom during coronavirus
During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.
How does the Labour leader become Prime Minister? A satirical guide.
As the first criticism of the new labour leader, Keir Starmer, rumbles, what does it take to be Labour leader and win an election?
Plague and coronavirus: Bring out your dead, then it’s revolution time
The third and final instalment exploring today’s coronavirus crisis and comparing it with the historical documentary fiction of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.
The hangman’s mementos
A mysterious pair of boots and one of England’s most prolific hangman create an intriguing Glasgow mystery.
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