Today, the Scottish government launched its blueprint for an independent Scotland. On Saturday, Robin McAlpine was one of the closing speakers at the Radical Independence Conference, attended by more than 1000 people. This is his best memory of what he said.
Where to start? He repeatedly accuses feminists of being “moralisers”, when he's not saying we're “vampires” or “liberals” instead. But there can be no real solidarity without intersectionality.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century the world’s institutions reached a consensus: they came together to hail the goal of gender equality. Ironically, this was at the very moment when we were witnessing the limits, the exhaustion, of the equality paradigm.
A liberal democratic society embraces neither fascism nor racism. So why are anti-fascist and anti-racist activists finding themselves under arrest?
After living there for three years, Alys has been persuaded to campaign for an independent - and radically different - Scotland - and encourages you, if you can, to come to the Radical Independence Conference in Glasgow tomorrow.
On the routine indignities of a migrant's life in Britain.
It is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the world done about it, and is there anything to stop something similar happening again?
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that's all right, then.
As the Scottish government launches its White Paper on Scottish independence, and the Radical Independence Conference prepares to gather, it's easy to get caught up in the debate and miss the fact that, whatever the result, these events are changing Scotland.
