Tech, writing, and music for a cyberpunk worldhttps://mohkohn.co.uk/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/210/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/210/Originally published on Newsnet Scotland.Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/257/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/257/Originally published at the Centre for Technology and Society.Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-fate-worse-than-debt-2/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-fate-worse-than-debt-2/The most useful power the Smith Commission could grant the Scottish Government is the ability to get itself as deeply into debt as possible.Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-green-new-deal-for-europe/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-green-new-deal-for-europe/Alistair Davidson looks at the possibility for uniting an anti-austerty agenda with a new green politics.Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-wee-story/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/a-wee-story/My grandfather wasn't a religious man, but he always said that he would live on through his descendants, who each carry a small piece of him, and through the...Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/alistair-davidson-interviewed-for-the-scottish-independence-podcast/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/alistair-davidson-interviewed-for-the-scottish-independence-podcast/Alistair Davidson interviewed for the Scottish Independence PodcastFri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/an-exit-thoughts-on-no-exit/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/an-exit-thoughts-on-no-exit/A few of weeks ago, I promised Agnes I'd read "No Exit". It really was a fascinating play, and it's been ages since I wrote an essay, so I wrote this.Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-generation-yes-ish/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-generation-yes-ish/By Alistair DavidsonSun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-movement-politics-v-professional-politics/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-movement-politics-v-professional-politics/OOn Sunday, over a thousand ordinary citizens demonstrated outside BBC Scotland against its perceived bias when reporting on the Scottish independence referendum. There can be no doubt that this is a major rupture in Scottish political lifeTue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-scotland-class-and-nation/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-scotland-class-and-nation/Alistair Davidson on the hysteria of the Scottish establishment in the face of political uprising.Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-the-thirled-way/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/bella-the-thirled-way/By Alistair DavidsonTue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/celebrating-john-maclean-at-celtic-connections/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/celebrating-john-maclean-at-celtic-connections/This spectacular show defied all expectations. Organised by folk singer Siobhan Miller and poet and biographer Henry Bell, it saw an ensemble cast troupe on ...Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/carney-interest-rates/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/carney-interest-rates/Today, the Bank of England announced that interest rates will remain at historic lows, as long as unemployment remains above 7%. Mark Carney was careful to c...Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/dreaming-a-new-freedom/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/dreaming-a-new-freedom/Capitalism is in crisis... again. There is a glaring need for alternative visions of society,Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/edward-snowden-made-me-sick/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/edward-snowden-made-me-sick/"It's the police, let us in."Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/glasgows-urban-transport-revolution/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/glasgows-urban-transport-revolution/The revolution of the 1960s predicted a glittering future of smooth empty motorways, and began an era of ever-increasing car use, gridlock, and air pollution...Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/how-money-changed-everything/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/how-money-changed-everything/We all know there’s something strange about Britain. Germany and China have their factories, France and Japan their nuclear power plants. America has Google ...Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/how-scotland-can-protect-itself-from-gchq-spying-by-going-open-source/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/how-scotland-can-protect-itself-from-gchq-spying-by-going-open-source/Alistair Davidson introduces the Common Weal report on why Scotland needs to implement an open source transition plan to protect its sovereignty.Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/lessons-from-the-kenmure-street-siege/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/lessons-from-the-kenmure-street-siege/The defeat inflicted on Britain’s Home Office on Kenmure Street may prove a crucial turning point for Scotland.Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/my-computer-re-writes-a-christmas-carol/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/my-computer-re-writes-a-christmas-carol/(I feel this has a certain Joyce-like quality. It is generated from a statistical model built by analysing the original)Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/operation-goodwood-a-scottish-megagame/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/operation-goodwood-a-scottish-megagame/One of the most stressful things I have ever done is spend 6 hours as second in command of a 20-person allied command structure with each 8 in-game hours as ...Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/organisation-is-the-only-power-available-to-the-poor/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/organisation-is-the-only-power-available-to-the-poor/Subsequently used in the GuardianWed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/our-unstated-assumptions-are-no-longer-true/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/our-unstated-assumptions-are-no-longer-true/Prices are rising; wildfires are burning; disease outbreaks are becoming regular.Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/our-vast-renewable-energy-potential-can-reindustrialise-scotland/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/our-vast-renewable-energy-potential-can-reindustrialise-scotland/Originally published on National Collective.Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/peer_production/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/peer_production/I keep claiming that peer production is a new mode of production in the Marxist sense. This provoked Tom to be really annoying by asking intelligent, pertine...Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/people-power-in-the-new-scotland/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/people-power-in-the-new-scotland/Originally published on Newsnet ScotlandMon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/picking-up-a-buzz/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/picking-up-a-buzz/Yesterday, we discovered a rather curious anti-independence “listicle” on the popular viral-meme website Buzzfeed. Entitled “Scotland. The UK. 10 Myths. 10 F...Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/postcapitalism-and-the-social-movements-of-technology-workers/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/postcapitalism-and-the-social-movements-of-technology-workers/In PostCapitalism, Paul Mason has produced a work of stunning breadth and scope. His central project is to situate today’s world in political and economic hi...Sat, 08 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/radio-war-nerd/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/radio-war-nerd/Here’s a 20+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 41 (total length 1:49:34) on Scottish nationalism, Brexit & independence, with Alistair Davidson one of...Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/renminbi-me/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/renminbi-me/As China buys into ‘The Most Expensive White Elephant in British History’ we explore what it might mean for Scotland.Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scotland-no-more/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scotland-no-more/I was only four years old in 1987, when the Proclaimers' Letter From America stormed the UK charts, so it's perhaps unsurprising that I've never known its si...Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scottish-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-mass-surveillance/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scottish-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-mass-surveillance/This paper makes the case for the adoption by businesses and government of publicly auditable open source software to protect Scottish sovereignty.Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/some-notes-on-currency-unions/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/some-notes-on-currency-unions/There's a lot of talk of currency unions and so on lately in Scotland. What does it all mean? Here's an idiot's guide:Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scotlands-social-movements-can-be-a-model-for-the-world/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/scotlands-social-movements-can-be-a-model-for-the-world/Human societies have always been shaped by conflict between ruled and rulers. Rome fought slave and tribal revolts as often as foreign wars. Feudal Kings nee...Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/sort-of-an-album/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/sort-of-an-album/I've released a mixtape, entitled Enough Gravity.Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-curious-case-of-youdecide2014-tories-in-neutral-clothing/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-curious-case-of-youdecide2014-tories-in-neutral-clothing/UPDATE: I have now definitively linked the BuzzFeed article to the Scotland Office itself!Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-mitterrand-plan/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-mitterrand-plan/“In economics, there are two solutions. Either you are a Leninist. Or you won’t change anything.” — François MitterrandThu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-telekommunist-party/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-telekommunist-party/Originally published on my tumblr.Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-trouble-with-the-council-tax-is-the-sound-your-buzzer-makes/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-trouble-with-the-council-tax-is-the-sound-your-buzzer-makes/The trouble with the council tax is the sound your buzzer makes. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-treasury-just-admitted-that-the-scotland-bill-is-a-trap/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/the-treasury-just-admitted-that-the-scotland-bill-is-a-trap/The Herald has an exclusive story today that the Treasury will offer Scotland £4.5 billion “compensation” if we accept their preferred fiscal framework. This...Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/trillions-of-tiny-flowcharts/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/trillions-of-tiny-flowcharts/Trillions of tiny flowcharts, in everything we touch. Whirling around in decision-making circles, deciding what we can and cannot do, deciding who owns and w...Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/trump-the-1990s-are-over/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/trump-the-1990s-are-over/A detailed study showed that cuts and industrial decline were a more significant indicator of the likelihood of a Brexit Leave vote than immigration – and th...Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/we-glasgow-students-were-inspired-by-the-spirit-of-red-clydeside/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/we-glasgow-students-were-inspired-by-the-spirit-of-red-clydeside/Written with Liam Turbett and Suzanne Ross. Originally published in the Guardian.Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/which-nordic-model/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/which-nordic-model/Creating a Scottish model inspired by the Nordics will present challenges for us all. The emphasis on taxation in Scottish debates is - ironically - peculiarly British.Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/why-greece-is-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/why-greece-is-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/Yes, Greek governments have managed the country poorly, there is a lot of corruption and it is difficult to collect taxes. However, before the 2008 crash, th...Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/wikileaks-karl-marx-and-you/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/wikileaks-karl-marx-and-you/Originally published on libertyandsolidarity.orgFri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/would_independence_have_protected_grangemouth/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/would_independence_have_protected_grangemouth/Today has been a comprehensive defeat for the employees of Grangemouth, a site through which about 10% of Scotland's GDP (1% of the UK) passes, and which its...Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/yes-meet-jez/https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/yes-meet-jez/Much space in the newspaper comment pages has been given over to speculation about what a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party would mean for Scotland’s independen...Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT