2024
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Do the Birds Sing of Anthropomorphism? – April 6, 2024
miracles – March 13, 2024
Hunger and Mourning – February 23, 2024
2023
Wheatley Homes Press Office Backpedals, Gives Non-Answers – October 25, 2023
Wheatley Homes Hopes for Decision About Wyndford Demolition in Next Two Weeks – October 24, 2023
Wyndford Demolition: Saafedem Lies, Wheatley Ignores Questions – October 3, 2023
convalescence – September 12, 2023
Condemnation, and a Virtual Walk Around the Wyndford – September 1, 2023
Against Hard Work (and Keir Starmer) – August 26, 2023
Rest In Poetry, Kenneth White – August 17, 2023
Blog Changing to Newsletter – August 15, 2023
Why Zoom Is Dangerous – August 13, 2013
Videos Shot During Walks in Glasgow G20 – August 10, 2023
A Light Comes On – August 3, 2023
July Reads – August 1, 2023
Haiku – July 28, 2023
Pareidolia – July 25, 2023
No Vaccine Boosters for Most of Scotland as Experts Demand Return of Mandatory Masking – July 23, 2023
The Smart Phone As Voyeur – July 17, 2023
Short Fiction – July 7, 2023
June Reads – July 1, 2023
Beefy Bradley Is a Maryhill Hero, No Longer Unsung – June 3, 2023
May Reads – May 31, 2023
train travel instructions – May 28, 2023
a great cry – May 6, 2023
April Reads – April 30, 2023
Links Roundup – April 23, 2023
Humza Yousaf Gives Up On Country, Not King – April 9, 2023
Buddhas Show Up At Our Wyndford Hermitage – April 7, 2023
March Reads – April 1, 2023
Today: Picket the Strike-Breaking Saramago Bar at CCA Glasgow – 21, 2023
no: poems of urban zen – March 19, 2023
Some Very Short Stories – March 17, 2023
Zen for Real Life in Glasgow – March 9, 2023
February Reads – February 28, 2023
this – February 27, 2023
Post-Verbal – Februry 20, 2023
online sangha – February 12, 2023
News of Two of My Favourite Writers – February 9, 2023
Talking Groups in Wyndford, Maryhill, Glasgow – February 2, 2023
January Reads – January 31, 2023
Haiku – January 10, 2023
Random Luck in a Crisis – January 3, 2023
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2022
December Reads – December 31, 2022
Why Is the Hacking of 400 Million Twttr Users' Private Information Being Ignored By Most Media? – December 30, 2022
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Buddha – December 14, 2022
November Reads – December 1, 2022
5-7-5 – November 30, 2022
Two Bells: How Boxing Led Me to Zen – November 10, 2022
Nick Durie's Wyndford Hate Groups – November 5, 2022
October Reads – November 1, 2022
Samhain Dreams – October 31, 2022
Scran Van Pop-Up Cafe in the Wyndford Today – October 28, 2022
...Or Not – October 24, 2022
The Inevitable: Why Boris Johnson Will Win Again – October 23, 2022
Prediction: Trump Will Be Pardoned – October 20, 2022
zazen – October 8, 2022
Flowers, Neighbours, Community – October 7, 2022
The Stockingfield Bridge Is Open, Despite What Glasgow Live Says – October 1, 2022
September Reads – September 30, 2022
Truss and Starmer, United in their Contempt for Scotland – September 28, 2022
Mourning the Queen: When Parasocial Becomes Pathological – September 18, 2022
A Foreign Affair – September 8, 2022
Can Anything Be Unrelated? – September 6, 2022
Recent Listening – September 3, 2022
August Reads – August 31, 2022
Plague Diary: Magical Thinking as Policy – August 29, 2022
Against Hard Work – August 23, 2022
Fuel Poverty: Crisis Now, Catastrophe Soon – August 22, 2022
Awareness and the Self: Which Has Which – August 20, 2022
No Recycling Bins for Pedestrians in Glasgow – August 17, 2022
Breasts Without Women: Reading Gary Snyder in the Year 2022 – August 12, 2022
July Reads – July 31, 2022
rocks in the water – July 30, 2022
Summer Idyll in the Urban Jungle – July 24, 2022
two families – July 18, 2022
danger – July 7, 2022
The Spitting Men of Glasgow – July 1, 2022
June Reads – June 30, 2022
two friends – June 29, 2022
Haiku – June 19, 2022
Plague Diary: Life After Surrender – June 17, 2022
Why I Resigned From the SNP Today – June 1, 2022
May Reads – May 31, 2022
Past, Present, Future News in an Old Floor – May 27, 2022
Last Post from the Wyndford High Flats – May 22, 2022
Against Humanism – May 14, 2022
An Accurate Description of What Is Happening in the Wyndford – May 9, 2022
How I Will Vote Tomorrow, and Why – May 4, 2022
Anniversary: Two Years of Virtual Zen Practice – May 3, 2022
Happy May Day – May 1, 2022
April Reads – April 30, 2022
An Attachment – April 29, 2022
Who Is the Glasgow Zen Graffiti Writer? – April 19, 2022
Zen: When the Usual Solutions Do Not Apply – April 16, 2022
DuckDuckGo, Customer of Surveillance Capitalism – April 14, 2022
Man Kills Pigeons Outside Maryhill Tesco – April 12, 2022
Everybody Sits – April 10, 2022
Tokyo Vice – a Clumsy Masterpiece – April 3, 2022
March Reads – March 31, 2022
Does Nicola Sturgeon Accept British Rule Over Scotland? – March 29, 2022
GHA Announces Wyndford Demolitions to Go Ahead – March 18, 2022
Plague Diary: Scottish Government Surrenders to Covid – March 15, 2022
Medicine and Sickness, Heaven and Hell – March 12, 2022
Glasgow's Simon Community's Contempt for People in Poverty – March 10, 2022
Butterflies and Other People – March 5, 2022
Dynamic Silence – March 3, 2022
February Reads – February 28, 2022
Poem for Chris La Tray – February 26, 2022
Community, Social Network, or Mob? – February 24, 2022
I and I and Jacques Lacan – February 22, 2022
Why Do We Accept Unaffordable Housing as the Norm? – February 20, 2022
Pandemic Winter Haiku – February 14, 2022
sequence – February 12, 2022
Fleeing the Crime Scene – February 8, 2022
Presence, Not Preaching: Zen in the Street – February 6, 2022
January Reads – January 31, 2022
Linzi Heggie/GHA Response to Questions From Tenants About to Lose Their Homes – January 25, 2022
Tenants About to Lose Their Homes Have Questions for GHA – January 20, 2022
Update on Living Rent/Nick Durie/Wyndford Tenants' Union – January 15, 2022
Compassion in Conflict – January 13, 2022
Tolerance of Bigotry by Living Rent – January 12, 2022
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2021
Why Twttr Is Useless As Well As Evil – December 28, 2021
Christmas Haiku for Glasgow Housing Association – December 25, 2021
Plague Diary: Parallel Worlds – December 13, 2021
GHA Official Admits Wyndford Demolition Consultation Is a Sham – December 3, 2021
November Reads – November 30, 2021
Book Review: What Starts Here Stops Here – November 28, 2021
Glasgow Housing Association to Demolish 600 Homes During a Housing Shortage – November 25, 2021
Some Things, Related or Not – November 19, 2021
Glasgow's Peasants Get Our Libraries Back... For Now – November 16, 2021
Reading the City: The Real Public Art – November 10, 2021
October Reads – November 1, 2021
Plague Diary: SNP Stays Safe, Disregards Everyone Else – October 26, 2021
French High-Speed Rail Should Be Everywhere – October 20, 2021
Plague Diary: TRNSMT Did Indeed Transmit – October 10, 2021
Robbed at the Airport – October 8, 2021
September Reads – September 29, 2021
Jaan Kaplinski Joins the Majority – September 21, 2021
Male Conditioning Is Terrible – September 18, 2021
Plague Diary: Has the Scottish Government Given Up? – September 8, 2021
August Reads – August 31, 2021
Plague Diary: Notes From a Walk in Glasgow – August 26, 2021
Plague Diary: More than 5000 New Infections Today – August 25, 2021
Plague Diary: 134% Increase in Scottish Infections in a Week – August 21, 2021
Surveillance Capitalism: Participation Is Acceptance – August 9, 2021
Plague Diary: Auld Maol's Almanac for the Rest of 2021 in Scotland – August 9, 2021
No Cleaning in Wyndford High Flats in At Least 4 Months – August 3, 2021
July Reads (all rereads) – July 31, 2021
This Saturday, Glasgow Communities Unite Against Closures – July 29, 2021
Scottish Law: Optional to Abide By – July 19, 2021
Recent Listening – July 15, 2021
Nonfiction v. Nonfact – July 4, 2021
No Happy Endings: The Foot-Stomping Vulnerability of Gerry Cinnamon – July 3, 2021
Plague Diary: Abandoned Masks & Abandoned Sanity – July 2, 2021
June Reads – June 29, 2021
Love and Geography – June 19, 2021
Plague Diary: 1000 New Cases in 24 Hours – June, 12, 2021
Maryhill Library Should Reopen, Says Patrick Grady – June 4, 2021
There Is No Zen at Amazon – June 4, 2021
May Reads – May 31, 2021
Glasgow Debates Aesthetics & Morality in the Work of Milan Kundera – May 15, 2021
Dawn Raids in Scotland by a Foreign Government – May 14, 2021
Clipped Wings – May 12, 2021
Five Days Later: Scottish Election Notes – May 11, 2021
passing through: Tom Leonard's Final Work Published in New Book – May 7, 2021
This Scottish Election Is Not About a Party – May 5, 2021
Ex-Socialist George Galloway Wants Working Class People to Talk Proper – April 30, 2021
April Reads – April 30, 2021
Good News for Scottish Viruses – April 25, 2021
Craig Murray Speaks Up for the Has-Beens – April 23, 2021
Maryhill Library Is Moving, Not Closing, Says City Council Leader – April 22, 2021
First Person, Third Person, Same Person – April 20, 2021
Save Maryhill Library – April 20, 2021
Glasgow's Message Is Clear – April 17, 2021
Another Form of Street Art in the Wyndford – April 16, 2021
Three Bags Full, Sir: Open Letter to Patrick Grady MP, Bob Doris MSP & Councillor John Letford – April 10, 2021
SNP Orders Members to Refrain From Campaigning While Royal Corpse Cools – April 10, 2021
Death of an Unremarkable Man – April 9, 2021
The Only Good Thing About the Alba Party – April 6, 2021
Vote to Put Alex Salmond Back in His Time Machine – April 5, 2021
Plague Diary: Restrictions Ease, Infections Do Not – April 2, 2021
March Reads – April 1, 2021
Gerry Loose's Unfinished Hut – March 29, 2021
Scotland Has No Question to Answer – March 25, 2021
Parcel of Rogues Fails to Oust Nicola Sturgeon – March 23, 2021
Scotland Gets What England Wants – March 16, 2021
Essential Services – March 14, 2021
Online Activism Is a Bourgeois Luxury – March 13, 2021
Martin Armstrong, Boss of Bosses at Wheatley Group, Is Doing Nicely – March 5, 2021
A Form of Prayer: Open Letter to Cube Housing Association & Laura Henderson – March 2, 2021
February Reads – March 2, 2021
Wyndford High Flats Remain Filthy, Cube and Laura Henderson Remain Silent – February 25, 2021
Liberals + Fcbk + Twttr = True Love 4Evr – February 20, 2021
Filth in Lifts and Stairwells in Wyndford High Flats During Pandemic – February 17, 2021
Wyndford Sends a Message – February 13, 2021
Haibun: Four Years Home – February 9, 2021
Verso Books Accused of Allowing Sexual Harassment & Union-Busting – February 6, 2021
Music for Pandemic Pacing – February 4, 2021
Grownup Writer Hits out at Childish, Violent Language in News – February 2, 2021
Craig Murray Compares Nicola Sturgeon to Caligula – February 1, 2021
Recent Listening – February 1, 2021
Plague Diary: Lumpen and Dangerous – January 29, 2021
Everyday Death – January 27, 2021
January Reads – January 27, 2021
Plague Diary: Glasgow and Glasgow – January 21, 2021
Richard Leonard Is Gone. At Least We Still Have Boris Johnson – January 14, 2021
If You Are on Fcbk or Twttr, You Are a Trump Ally – January 7, 2021
Auld Maol's Almanac for Scotland in 2021 – January 2, 2021
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2020
Christmas Has Not Been Cancelled – December 21, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon Advises Scots to "Perhaps Think" About Not Killing People – December 16, 2020
Favourite Books of 2020 – December 16, 2020
Scotland Leads the World in Ending Period Poverty — Doctor Suggests Alternatives to Disposable Sanitary Products – November 26, 2020
Wyndford Tenants Pick Up Litter and Deliver It to Cube – November 22, 2020
"Reclaim Maryhill"—Patrick Grady and Bob Doris Comment on Vigil for the Valley – November 18, 2020
Maryhill Tenants Protest Sell-Off of Their Land to Private Developers – November 14, 2020
Saturday, November 14 — Vigil for the Valley, Glasgow – November 13, 2020
America, This Is Who You Are – November 7, 2020
Domestic Violence Against Children Is Now Illegal In Scotland – November 5, 2020
Craig Murray's Latest Sideshow Is a Harmful Distraction From Real Political Action – November 1, 2020
"You Can Expect a Visit Soon," Warn Thugs Hired by the BBC – October 30, 2020
Craig Murray Objects to Women Having Well-Paid Jobs and Going on Holiday – October 28, 2020
Living Rent Tenants' Manifesto – October 20, 2020
Recent Reading – October 19, 2020
Gerry Hassan's Praise of Donald Dewar Is Fanfiction – October 9, 2020
It Is Not All About You: Open Letter to Craig Murray – September 30, 2020
Craig Murray Wakes Up to the Reality of Surveillance Capitalism – September 25, 2020
Why Does Craig Murray Block Protonmail? – September 25, 2020
Oh Pandah in G20 – September 1, 2020
"Incident" in High Flats, Glasgow – August 4, 2020
Digital Exorcism – August 1, 2020
Black Lives Matter Protest Near Kelvin Walkway, Glasgow – July 18, 2020
Glasgow Loan Sharks Looking for Victims – July 15, 2020
Do Not Call Him Boris – July 2, 2020
Journalists and Activists Should Not Expose Their Sources and Comrades for Convenience – June 2, 2020
Anti-Fascist Subvertising in Glasgow – May 26, 2020
The Chilling Persecution of Craig Murray – May 21, 2020
Neil Gaiman Cannot Get His Story Straight – May 20, 2020
Recommended Quarantine Reading: Moonstone — The Boy Who Never Was by Sjon – May 9, 2020
You Cannot Eat Books – May 5, 2020
The View From Here: a Sickness That Lets Us See Clearly – April 17, 2020
Daily Record Ignores Craig Murray's Reporting, Goes After Craig Murray Instead – April 1, 2020
Why Is Scottish Media Not Talking About Craig Murray's Banning From the Alex Salmond Trial? – March 27, 2020
Glasgow Man With Coronavirus Symptoms Denied Test, Calls Official Inaction and Contradictions "a Joke" – March 13, 2020
Street Change Glasgow's "Alternative Giving" Scheme Shows Contempt for People in Poverty – March 5, 2020
Love in a Colonised Country – February 14, 2020
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