Maurice Moore, a colonial jurist, in 1765 concluded that the idea of virtual representation was ultimately reflective of ‘a defect in the Constitution of England’. This defect was that of inherent exc...

On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Partha Dasgupta Published just over four years on from the eponymous review on The Economics of Biodiversity, Sir Partha Dasgupta’s On Natural Capi...

Ted Theisinger wades into two big new contributions to ‘river thought’. From the late, great James C. Scott and Colorado’s Ellen Wohl.

Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane When a book’s central premise is the answer to a specific question — indeed, its title — one may expect a specific answer. Is a River Alive? According to one of Rob...

If one envisions an overlapping of systems, much like we have in the human domain today, of legal, political, and economic structures, the necessary dynamics that would underpin these alternative form...

Just Earth comes at a particularly unjust and unearthly time. Mounting inequalities and crystallising environmental crises characterise the present day, and this forms the basis of Tony Juniper’s two-...

Proponents of private solutions are backed by the (un)imaginative default of private capital — capital that holds the power of financial resource allocation, and can thereby paint itself as the only w...

The sale of a plot of ground in St Andrews would be the first of its kind in Scotland.

Book Review: The Lie of the Land Guy Shrubsole Surrounded by never-ending news-driven despondency, Guy Shrubsole’s The Lie of the Land proves a soothing balm — a roadmap of action calling for the reve...

Paying for a search engine is a lot to ask, but you might not have a better option anymore.

Today I have published what I plan to be an annual analysis of who owns Scotland. The Who Owns Scotland 2024 report is based on an analysis of data from the Who Owns Scotland website as at 31 January ...

We are raising £5,000 to take legal action against Dundee City Council's decision to grant planning permission to a 10,000 sq ft training facility on our beloved greenspace by the river Tay.