By John Davis The last post in this blog attempted to understand the context of Benny Lynch’s life and challenged deficit model assumptions about him, the community he grew up in (the […]
Anything Is Possible – If We Open The Doors In Our Minds
It’s Time For National Unity In Scotland
It’s time for national unity – here is an article I just got published in the common space – it was written on Friday before Nicola’s excellent interventions over the weekend and […]
Purposeless Movements: Stories of Humanity, Identity, Love and Paradise
On Friday, we went to the Traverse Theatre to see the Birds of Paradise production ‘Purposeless Movements’. The play is written by Birds of paradise co-Artistic Director Robert Softley Gale and stars […]
Toughness, Forgiveness and Moving On: Its not what you moan about that counts, it’s what changes that counts.
Apologies for the late night nature of this post – it has been rushed out ahead of time because its contents suddenly became very pertinent to todays events. There will no doubt […]
Sometimes It’s Hard To be A ‘Natural Woman’?: But, #LoveWins If We Recognise There Are Different Ways To Be (Post 2)
This post and the previous one were created in reaction to recent events where I have noticed a creeping and insidious sexism resurfacing in the male-centric Westminster political media. In contrast to […]
Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose and Sheku Bayoh: The Police, Class, Disability, Ethnicity and Gender
Keven McKenna, in his article for The National on Saturday the 1st of August, likened the current Westminster establishment to aliens in a movie who have no concern for the fellow human […]
Fringe Show on Children and Young People As Artists of Social Change
Quick update on my shameless plea to collaborate in a Fringe show and low and behold I will be appearing in this show on the 24th of Aug in the Fringe link […]
Cavemen With God On Their Side: Hope, Equality and The Politics of Change
Many years ago I worked in the North East of England and was lucky enough to have digs with a couple who were involved in the Disability Movement and who were incredible […]
The People's Republic Of Escotia 