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Queen Elizabeth funeral procession down Mall

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.

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Derek Jarmen's garden with Dungeness nuclear power station in background Uncategorized

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.

Fantastical winged creature pinned for display at Merrylin Cryptid Museum History / London / Uncategorized

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.

Red Rebels and line of police officers History / London / Scotland

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.

Mass of tree roots Uncategorized

The ambiguity of roots

What is happening below ground? A Lynchian struggle, beautiful acts of collective solidarity or are the roots coming for us?

View of cruise ship partly blocked by hedge

Cycling for freedom during coronavirus

During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.

July 15, 2020 in Glasgow, Psychogeography.
Labour leader Keir Starmer

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?

June 23, 2020 in Uncategorized.
NHS rainbow paintings in a chemist window

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.

May 25, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London, Scotland.
McLennan Arch, Glasgow Green

The hangman’s mementos

A mysterious pair of boots and one of England’s most prolific hangman create an intriguing Glasgow mystery.

May 5, 2020 in Glasgow, History, Scotland.
Engraving of a two women lying dead on city street, one with baby, next to cross. In the background, a cart of bodies is pulled down the street.

London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: city lockdown and streets of suffering

We explore more similarities and differences between the coronavirus of 2020 and the plague of 17th century London. City lockdown, silence and noise in the streets, wild rumours and pandemic inequality.

April 13, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London.
Engraving of a two women lying dead on city street, one with baby, next to cross. In the background, a cart of bodies is pulled down the street.

London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: early days and lockdown

Contagion, fear, fake news and quackery. There are striking similarities between today’s crisis and the Great Plague of London centuries ago. Has anything changed?

March 24, 2020 in Glasgow, History, London.
Young woman smiling and posing in open boot of car in 1964

Eulogy to my mother

We had a complicated relationship but she was also a unique and fascinating character.

March 5, 2020 in Uncategorized.
Close-up of Blue Rebel

The day the Blue Rebels rose-up

The day the Blue Rebels rose-up and led a climate protest for the rising seas.

March 1, 2020 in Uncategorized.
Positano, Amalfi Coast

Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019

From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.

December 10, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland, Travel.
Wrathful manifestation of Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche

The wonderful folklore of Bhutan

Crazy monks, strange creatures roaming the mountains, thunder dragons, flying gurus, and penis art. Bhutan is a little bit special and so is its folklore.

November 28, 2019 in Travel.

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