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Patrick Phillips

Eternal revolutionary, writer and artist Patrick Phillips was born in Truro in 1984. He lives and works in a mountain village in Scotland. He has written articles for The Stage, Elsewhere Journal, CommonSpace, Scottish Left Review, Freedom Press, Scottish Farmer and The National. In summer 2021, he published his first book of essays, Eternal Mountain: Essays from Afar. This is his third non-fiction book. He is now working on his latest project, The Modern Giant: How to Be A Giant In An Age of Neo Ontology. It will be published in 2023.

Comment/Features/Politics

On the Ground: Ending the Hell of Scotland’s Conifer Plantations

March 11, 2023March 19, 2023

"When one encounters a plantation in Scotland one has not entered into an ethical space (holistic), they have entered into a kind of ontological hell."…

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Arts/Politics

Human Experience: What has modern time today become?

March 8, 2023March 16, 2023

The author presents a small theory on what the social and economic reality of human time today has become.…

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Arts/Features

Geoethics in Scotland: ontology as the quality or essence of existence

March 2, 2023March 13, 2023

The author offers us both a personal and universal vision of the deep relationship that binds humans to nature, through his experience of life in a mountain village in Scotland.…

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Arts

The importance of new civilisations: a short extract from the polemic, The Lawyer’s Dream

February 24, 2023March 10, 2023

The Lawyer's Dream is about a lawyer who started his own circus more than 40 years ago. After his death, Patrick sets out to try and understand why?…

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National/Politics

Building a high-quality Scottish way of life: 5 policies that would transform Scotland now

February 23, 2023February 28, 2023

The following five policies would transform and create a new Scottish way of life.…

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Holyrood
Comment/National/Politics

Time has come for a new party at Holyrood, ending the SNP’s monopoly on Independence

February 18, 2023February 28, 2023

Patrick Phillips calls for a new political party at Holyrood, creating a new, sustainable and high-quality Scottish way of life.…

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Arts

Human Essence: Art & Culture

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

Time has come to champion human essence and redefine our art-making as an urgent call for a new socio-economic model in representation…

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