column on why is the far right is obsessed with dubai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

wow the Spiderman producers have really tidied up Renfield Lane, great job!

Off to Durham for the weekend. Mad seeing Reform-adjacent facebook posters trying to manufacture a culture war about a Palestinian speaker on the platform (while the local Reform admin has not been invited) - as if the mining unions engaging in international issues is somehow a new thing (it is not)

A fortnight ago, people in Royston turned out to protest against news a local building was being turned into an “illegal migrant hotel”. The only problem? It was completely false. So what happened? @everebecca.bsky.social investigates www.glasgowbell.co.uk/royston-far-...

a significant part of facebook these days is literally just organising pogroms

Whether by car, bike or on foot, if you've been near Cowcaddens subway station, you'll have likely seen the perma-works on the M8 that now blot the Woodside Viaduct. With a completion date 'under review', motorists and residents alike have one question: when will they end?

Interesting letter in @scotnational.bsky.social today responding to @charlielynch.bsky.social book review yesterday

The Scottish history book review returns to the daily newspapers today with my review of @parcelorogues.bsky.social ‘s antifascist history, ‘Glasgow 1975.’ See The National, June 10th, pp. 20-21.

Delighted to have an extract from Glasgow 1975 up on @glasgowbell.bsky.social this weekend - you can read it here www.glasgowbell.co.uk/racist-killi...

It is 50 years to the day, 24 May 1975, since the "Battle of Paisley Road" in Glasgow, as around 100 anti-fascists were arrested while blockading a National Front meeting. Many then escaped from prison and went straight back to the demo! As told in detail in my new book... glasgow1975.bigcartel.com

little did I know when I stumbled across a film set while heading up Ben Cruachan on a grey day in June 2021 that it was going to turn out to be one of The Great TV Shows (Andor). Incredible show all the way through.

Andor is just so good! Enjoying @seantcollins.com recaps. "It’s frankly astonishing how well [they] create a taut and tragic political action thriller, working within the contours of the Star Wars sensibility and aesthetic while making them feel fresh and new." decider.com/2025/05/07/a...

In 1975 a National Front fascist shot dead a Jamaican man, Hector Smith, in his home in Glasgow. Weeks later, over 100 trade unionists were arrested as they picketed an NF rally at Kingston Halls. @parcelorogues.bsky.social’s new pamphlet tells the story. It was launched at a packed meeting!

what exactly radicalised the "offline" King Creosote? does he think the Fife Coastal Path is creeping ULEZ? The card machine at Anstruther Fish Bar a globalist conspiracy? The St Monan's Tidal Pool a chemtrail repository? www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Really looking forward to launching Glasgow 1975 on Thursday. The event is now on a waitlist - but the book can be ordered here: glasgow1975.bigcartel.com/product/glasgo…

Glasgow May Day march today 🟥

Hearing those six voters all wrote “I hate Ed miliband” on their ballots

every news story or fire service / ranger service update about wildfires in Scotland on Facebook over the last few days has absolutely wild conspiracy theories under it. None of these even mention climate change, yet people utterly convinced they are a "false flag" etc

come to my book launch www.eventbrite.com/e/glasgow-19...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

On a Scotrail intercity HST with working plug sockets, truly living the dream here

whole University Challenge round on the works of Gerry Hassan just there 😭 (they didn't get any right)

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Glorious day in Argyll ☀️

super super spiders 🕷️🕷️

The Brutalist except it's about the Catholic Church hierarchy commissioning Gillespie, Kidd & Coia to make loads of mad buildings across central Scotland in the 1960s

looking at some things in the archives today and came across this - Conservative HQ in a panic about their Scottish student wing affiliating itself with right wing paramilitaries from around the world. Seem a lot more alarmed by the UUP than UNITA though (what a line-up 😬)

The greatest local Facebook drama in history

Creative Scotland really setting themselves up for a kicking in three years time when they inevitably can't sustain all these new Regular Funded Organisations 👀

the BBC crime-drama-in-Gaelic An t-Eilean looks v nice and is generally ok even if the plot and script are a bit... credulous... patchy? But my main gripe is why does the main police person wear a coat over her puffer jacket? Not least in a place where it rains just about every day, all year round

great to see No Other Land nominated for best documentary at the Oscars. Can stream it for a few quid on BFI player. Important film, not least with what is now unfolding in the West Bank. Hope it wins. player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film...

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

Not sure where Edinburgh Live imagines that it's coming to you "live" from, but that's a photo of Stonehaven in October 2023 (Storm Babet) gracing its LIVE updates.

What happened to the BBC/A24 Shuggie Bain screen adaptation? Announced 2022 but never seems to have gone in to production 🤔

Remember when we said project 2025 is Donald Trump and Donald Trump is project 2025?

So Reform UK now has a councillor in Glasgow who stood as a Tory and won’t step down to defend his seat. He’s even joined a party he was warning the public about mere months ago. Be careful who you vote for, indeed Thomas.

P&K Save Our Rural Libraries protest ✊🏼📚

if you want a depressing evening spend 80 mins listening to an ALEO manager explain why they are very sad but they have no option but to permanently shut the only library in your town (pop: 8k) from 1 April, while sitting surrounded on all sides by kids books. All to save a total of £73k a year (!!)

Anyone seen my two lynxes?

🔴 NEW: The Ferret has charted links between MCC Brussels, a think tank funded by Hungary's populist Orbán government, and academics and campaigners with influence in Scotland theferret.scot/orban-conser...

Mountain hares above Loch Turret reservoir this afternoon 🐇🗻

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There's an interesting couple of numbers tucked away in this story - a ferry built in 1993 to carry up to 110 cars now carries only 90. Due to "autobesity", almost 20% of its vehicle capacity has been lost simply due to bigger and fatter modern cars

misty Machrie Moor xmas eve

Claiming to have '6000 supporters' by renaming an anti lockdown / 'worried parents' Facebook group into one opposing a new National Park - almost a too perfect example of how the pandemic reshaped political faultlines, & not in a good way (cf. Naomi Klein's Doppelganger)

Mary Wallopers at the Barras tonight, let's goooooo... 👍

a lot of people on the internet learning about dairy farming for the first time this week, it seems

any good analysis on the collapse of Greens in Irish elections - particularly given the other incumbent parties boosted their seats & held up vote share?

kneecap on the TRNSMT lineup is v funny imo, are DF concerts trying to cause a riot

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/musk... "in 2022, Bolsonaro narrowly lost to Lula only because economic conditions had worsened during his presidency. Yet despite record employment and low inflation under progressive governments, far-right misinfo, supercharged by social media, is on the rise again"