SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year. It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!

We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛 Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.

Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow. Please share.

Just Transition Conditionalities - Building a Toolkit for Scotland can be downloaded here. It outlines proposals for how transition policy should be structured to protect workers, create jobs and benefit communities and the public. www.justtransition.scot/publication/...

With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh. We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.

A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

lovely to get my print copy of the latest @newint.bsky.social, which features my article ‘where is the left?’ for their long read section it discusses left wing spaces, whilst offering a critique of recent accounts (such as minority rule) that suggest the left has got ‘worse’ at solidarity

"Almost all of those surveyed want more public investment in domestic wind manufacturing, as well as in UK ports so they are fit for energy projects." Must-read op-ed from @rosiehampton.bsky.social reflecting on their recent survey of UK oil & gas workers. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...

*New research article* Gabe Eckhouse and I for Geoforum on how since the 1970s North Sea oil and then fracking have been imagined as British and American national energy sources through imperial oil booms reinforcing old oil powers after the rise of anti-colonial nationalism. Read it here⬇️

Absolutely loved this. So rare to get this level of analysis that's specific to Scotland and its dysfunctional unhappy status quo, its industrial strategy caught between inaction and apathy. A great listen.

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more? After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

Enjoyed chatting to environmental campaigner and trade unionist @rosiehampton.bsky.social about Scotland's unjust transition, the multinationals who dominate our economy and how we build an energy system that works for workers and citizens. You can listen here ⬇️

Really enjoyed this conversation about (un)just transitions, public ownership & where do we go from here You can listen at the link below!

💥BOOK EVENT💥 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Aye Aye Books www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...

From Grangemouth to Aberdeen, in Scotland we are already seeing what a transition led by corporate greed will look like, with job losses, fuel poverty and emergency food bank use on the rise. This cannot continue. We need public investment to support workers into good, secure, unionised jobs.

Great to be out with trade unions and climate groups standing shoulder to shoulder outside UK Parliament today, calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to commit £1.9bn a year in transition funding for North Sea workers. No more empty promises, time for real action for workers and their communities.

RALLY: DEMAND A WORKERS' TRANSITION ✊ We’re joining forces with climate activists and trade unionists to demand a workers’ transition is funded at the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review. Rachel Reeves: support North Sea oil and gas workers!

Picked this up yesterday at the May Day rally. Great stuff from all the authors, including @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @gavinbrewis.bsky.social writing on the Just Transition and on Ned Culture, respectively

Delighted to have a chapter in ‘Keep Left: Red Paper on Scotland 2025’, out today with @luathpress.bsky.social I wrote about Scotland’s energy transition and what’s needed for the left to reclaim it from being dictated by the whims of industry bosses & private capital

Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

I’m so pleased to see this important, moving, incisive and harrowing collection of papers published. It was an honour to act as editor.

I’m really pleased to say my thesis, “Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1980s Scotland”, is now online theses.gla.ac.uk/84892/ if you’re interested in solidarity & unemployed workers’ centres, bookshops and women’s centres - look no further !

Our latest research looks at employment practice in the offshore wind sector, and takes a closer look at the ScotWind developers. The Scottish Government didn't ask these companies to commit to Fair Work so we did - not one completed our survey.

Wrote this for @heraldscotland.bsky.social about how both governments have utterly failed to deliver a just transition for Grangemouth workers t.co/Utwa0MkFYB

Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase

If you'd like to come to the launch of The Energy That Made Modern Scotland then book your free ticket here! 5pm 20 Feb at Glasgow University All welcome.

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

A red weather warning should make clear what is expected of employers so workers are not pressured to put themselves at risk. If you know anyone who is being told to work or is being made to choose between staying safe or being paid, pass them this STUC form - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

new bad bunny album is no skips

using my work wellbeing hour to go for a run and having my being feel the least well it could possibly be

glasgow is the slippiest city in the world at the moment and i’m fed UP

12 minute Ethel Cain album opener we are so back

What if trans healthcare crowdfunding, but community-oriented rather than for one individual? That's what we're doing in Glasgow! Inspired by past successes from other groups, we're raising money to train and set up a local electrolysist. Please donate and/or share! (reskeet?!)

The Guardian has published another article today about declining author wages (true), this time blaming FFB for this trend (not true). Festivals and authors have both become poorer poorer for the same two reasons: austerity and wealth hoarding by the publishing industry. >

first head-on-desk nap of 2025 has been ticked off

It's also troubling that the piece places responsibility for adaptation on workers and communities without proposing they are given political or economic power. Passing responsibility to the local level in this manner is a favourite of the fossil fuel industry and a basic neo-liberal premise. 4/4

It speaks of a collective "we" that failed to halt global heating, as if climate movements and workers' movements aren't routinely oppressed by state and capital. There is no "we". This is a fight, a class struggle. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 3/4

“Environmental activists must organise against the corporate capture of the energy transition, exemplified by companies like Petroineos playing fast and loose with the climate and their workers’ livelihoods” A final blog from me before signing off for work this year! t.co/3aCejoz821

Wrote a wee roundup of our work at Friends of the Earth Scotland this year campaigning for a just transition in Scotland, stressing the importance of putting boots on the ground, showing up alongside workers at pickets & rallies in Grangemouth, the North East & beyond foe.scot/our-year-fig...

This is a moment for left-wing parties, movements and trade unions to stand up and demonstrate their solidarity to trans people. (sadly, I imagine many will ignore this after years of warnings) The fact that they're already talking about 'the anticipated rise in suicidality,' from this. Despicable.

Are you organising/campaigning for a just transition in Scotland? Then get applying for NEON’s Scottish spokesperson network, deadline tomorrow! Genuinely the best training I’ve ever been part of and would be happy to answer any questions folk have :) www.neweconomyorganisers.org/work/support...

very heartening to be part of living rent’s rally for rent controls tonight outside the holyrood ! up the tenants’ unions everywhere ✊🏻🏡 poor photo, excellent union x

MASSIVE win for a Monday morning - campaigners in Scotland have succeeded in getting NHS Lothian to drop their openly discriminatory surgery ban for trans people aged under 25.

This Wednesday (27) I’m doing a talk about walking and refugee history, looking at how walking appears in oral history testimonies & refugee creative writing as well as discussing my work translating academic history into walking tours. 12-13:30 in 305, 7 Lilybank Gdns or DM me for the Zoom link!

Homeland are a splinter from the neo-nazi Patriotic Alternative, lead by a bloke called Kenny Smith. Their aim is to do with PA what the BNP did with NF – present a kind of semi-respectable, electoral vehicle for far-right politics redflare.info/articles/fas...

the man on the right there is Steve Laws – self-professed "migrant hunter", who has spent years patrolling the beaches of Kent with a camera looking for small boat crossings