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.
What an abandoned mausoleum tells us about the passing of time
How an abandoned mausoleum tells us that a year many dread will pass to better times.
Surveillance at an abandoned psychiatric hospital
Wandering around an abandoned psychiatric village outside Edinburgh
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.
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 day the Blue Rebels rose-up
The day the Blue Rebels rose-up and led a climate protest for the rising seas.
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.
Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost
Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.
Partick Thistle: weird mascots, humour and Pele
Forget the Old Firm. Glasgow’s Partick Thistle has given world football a wonderfully bizarre mascot and one of the funniest football quips ever. Welcome to the world of the Jags.
Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war
War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.
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