Happy Friday folks. It's not every Friday you take delivery of your own book. Dedicated to my granda, dad and brother. 🕊️💚

Out today. Shameless advertising again - my new book that critically analyses the sport-military relationship in Britain. Digital and hard copies available www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

Out today. Shameless advertising again - my new book that critically analyses the sport-military relationship in Britain. Digital and hard copies available www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

Great to see focus on benefits of Scotland's colleges. If I hadn't benefited from Dundee College education i'd never have gone to university. I'm now an academic at Edinburgh University & next week my 4th book is released. Save our Colleges. DC was instrumental #BBCTheSundayShow

Just in time for Remembrance Sunday/period. Read about why many feel alienated by the red poppy and support the troops initiatives. Discover the coordinated British govt strategy to increase support for unpopular wars www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

Ed Milliband being asked about 'Prince' Andrew situation. He says the govt will "be guided by the Royal Family". 🤦‍♂️😂 So, the man caught lying and paying off a main victim in child sex abuse allegations will answer to....his family, and the govt will do as told ..by his family 🤦‍♂️

Want to understand more about how Remembrance Sunday has become Remembrance Period, and how/why sport has been used to 'remember' British militarism? Release date fast approaching 👇👇👇👇 www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

Israel is committing mass murder right now. If the extremist leaders and defenders of Israel wish to continually refer to it as a 'Jewish state', that is on them. It doesn't make opponents of Israel anti-Jewish.

Allegations of anti-Semitism are often (usually) merely asserted without definition or evidence enabling political protest to be branded bigoted by its opponents. It's a convenient tactic that Irish-Catholics in Scotland have witnessed with the use of the term 'sectarian'.

An isolated and extreme act of violence against Jews in Manchester now (all too predictably) being used to justify prohibiting protest against Israel's murderous genocide. Criticising Israel's genocide is not anti-Jew.

Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.

They never, ever mention WHY Energy is unaffordable, or housing, or the NHS, or Adult Social Care, or Child Social Care. Because the problem is always the same, billionaires sucking billions out of the system in 'profit' into their tax havens.

On yet another British military-related 'remembrance' day, here's a reminder of my upcoming book that explains the political and ideological rationale for such continual propaganda. www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

My forthcoming monograph -British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: "Support the Troops - is now available to pre-order. www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

It's coming ..🕺 www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Kell...

Sport and militarism on steroids. So much for keeping politics out of sport

Just a reminder that I'm selling a book about 🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄....

No money for people with disabilities. No money for the elderly. No money for children in poverty. Always money for war.

Wee Jamesey and Maestro are all set for the Cup Final. 🍀💚

How long is the world going to sit back and allow Israel to murder children and other civilians? This is beyond disgusting.

A glowing review of Surfing and Modernity in the North of Scotland, by Kristin Lawler in Idrottsforum.

This is a great example of what I call "The Corporate Culpability Paradox" in my upcoming book (British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance and Support The Troops". 👇👇👇

Want to learn about: Corporate Culpability Paradox Incorporating by Proxy Operation Tribute to Freedom Shared Cultural Codes Discursive Formations Symbolic Annihilation of dissent 4 relational constituents of militarism....and more?

Coming to book stores soon: "British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance and Support the Troops". Contract signed and manuscript almost complete. ✊🤞

ICYMI. And then we alight from the self-publicity wagon on this particular publication.

Quite the quirk of fate - VE Day 80 years and today I'm writing the preface to a very overdue project I'm dying to tell you all about .....sport and the 'hero'-fication of British militarism you say? 🤔

BBC news is incredible😂 Criticising Russia for linking WW2 to current war with Ukraine....yet not a word about Britain doing the same with its VE military parade parading Ukraine soldiers & MoD tweeting about them fighting for freedom. 😂

Graffiti on the wall! 🍀✊

Great few days at work - my PhD student passed his VIVA 🥂. And I've pretty much finished a first draft of a wee project I've wanted to do for over a decade. "Support the troops" you say.....✊

Where do they go after they leave office❓ Former defence minister Leo Docherty ➡️ Palantir Former defence secretary Penny Mordaunt ➡️ British American Tobacco Former army commander Gen Nick Borton ➡️ Lockheed Martin

Celtic championeeeeees🍾

One of my PhD students just passed her Viva and I'm ecstatic. 🕺🥂🙏

Hilarious that on the same day as announcing £6bn in benefit cuts they have also given £3bn to a company that steals all your money to put in a tax haven. No actually it isn't is it?

ICYMI.

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

Come and hear about Militarism, Remembrance and Sport. Going beyond the basics of Poppygate, James McLean and Celtic. www.whatsonlanarkshire.co.uk/event/133511...

Hearts 2-0 down ....shame. 😂🍾😂🍾

Liz Saville Roberts of Plaid Cymru — There is a “clear risk” that information shared with Israel from UK spy flights over Gaza “may have been used in attacks on civilians.” www.declassifieduk.org/despite-neta...

Jinty says "up the Celts" and "have a great weekend folks". 🐶

Main BBC news at six headlines don't even mention the arrest warrant for the genocidal leaders of Israel. This cannot be accidental.

The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue. The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum. Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?

Just a semi-regular reminder that you (or a uni library book near you) can now buy my book. ****pins this up****

Alan Macleod via mintpress.com www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-the...

Hello this place. I'm going to try to post happy and positive things here and leave the moans for the other place. 😆