Tag Archives: Bring Back British Rail
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Great British Railways Debate
20 May 2021
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 -
Artist as Active Citizen
Harrison reflects on The Glasgow Effect for this new text commissioned to launch a-n‘s year-long research project with AirSpace Gallery: Artists Make Change (May 2020 – May 2021). It is published alongside a new text by Dave Beech reflecting on the history of political art, to provoke discussion about artists’ roles in affecting social change. (Word count: 1,540)
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The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint
On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)
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The Future of Public Transport
10 Nov 2018
We Own It conference, London -
Should we bring back British Rail?
20 Sep 2018
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 -
A Better Railway for Britain
Writing as founder and coordinator of Bring Back British Rail, Harrison reflects on the last seven years’ campaigning for the public ownership of our railways in this preface for the campaign’s first report, launched in the Houses of Parliament in London on 13 October 2016. (Word count: 663)
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Rail re-nationalisation debate
27 Aug 2016
Today, BBC Radio 4
