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...writing on the website ‘Shine a Light’ highlights a concern about the programme failing to inform listeners that, to quote her: G4S, Serco and Sodexo all donate to Reform, which the BBC tells us is a ‘centre right think tank’ and which describes itself as an ‘independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public...

...Writing in the 1950s, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959, pp. 7–10) drew a distinction between ‘personal troubles’ and ‘public issues’. He suggested that although there were many ‘troubles’ or ‘problems’ that individuals experienced in their lives, not all of these emerged as ‘public issues’ which commanded public interest and attention...

...writing an obituary for Ina Scott in The Independent in 2004: Very few individuals in Britain can reasonably claim to have brought about single-handedly an alteration in the law of the land. But, this is precisely what a factory-worker grandmother achieved. Buoyed by the result, the workers continued their occupation throughout February and early March. At this point, the...

...write about that day it fills me with pride. During this time, I was politically active as a student. I helped to lead the longest student occupation of any Scottish University, student sit-in set to continue I was an elected representative to the National Union of Students and represented my fellow students at conferences and demonstrations. Coming out Personally, I...

...Writing about Economic Restructuring. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. Perchard, A. ‘“Broken Men” and “Thatcher’s Children”: Memory and Legacy in Scotland’s Coalfields’ pp.78-98 in International Labour and Working Class History (84), 2013. Phillips, J. ‘Deindustrialization and the Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields, 1947 to 1991’...