Gorbals from the air in the 50s, 70s and 90s from Joshua al-Najar’s presentation at the Studies in Photography conference.

The severity of the men in the launch brochure of the M* motorway, which destroyed large parts of Glasgow city centre.

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian. King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary

Glasgow's most reclusive novelist, Chris Kohler, finally has a event in his home city at the Aye Write festival. Check out the review in the post below. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/wate...

Did some anthropology this morning and looked up the cover stars of GQ in Taiwan, UK, and US.

Martin Amis is very good on why Nabokov's Ada is so bad.

Inside beautiful, brutalist church, The Pyramid, to see some extraordinarily, self-consciously ugly posters.

The Map and the Territory

neilscott.substack.com/p/the-vampir... 📣🧛‍♂️

Why are we still waiting for Better Buses? 🚌 In Sept, SPT finally approved plans to 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 👏 But the Scottish Government are now holding things up! 😠 Watch & share our new animation and 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗦𝗣𝘀 to demand action👇 📨 betterbuses.uk/strathclyde/#email

I like Matter, the offline reader that allows you to save web pages without the clutter, but it is funny to me that they are now encouraging you to get all your newsletters sent there directly via a custom email address. RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.

A story in three parts

Take these photos into the barbers and asking for a Nobel cut.

Led astray by r/VintageLadyBoners in believing this was a photo of Ezra Pound when it's actually Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

My photo essay - published this morning… ‘Compassion is stronger than division’: Glasgow’s battle over the saltire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Checking in on the Guardian's next generation of football talent page mainly to see what names (and haircuts) are fashionable: Reggie, Kallum, and Elvis are all heading to a pitch near you.

My Spanish wife tells me that I have vicarious lived experience of being Spanish.

Hopefully László Krasznahorkai will now be able to afford to buy a keyboard with an operational full stop key.

One of the few good things to come out of covid is the regular Drink with the Idler, featuring @askwilliamblake.bsky.social's thought for the week. Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson. www.idler.co.uk/events/

I was going to post something about Jim from the Office for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature but stopped myself for fear of the Bluesky police. But nowadays my feed is full of people mocking sanctimony so I don't know what to think.

This tour is pretty well organised but I don't envy the three days going between the Isle of Man, Middlesbrough, and Buxton.

If you want something to watch in a storm, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going is perfect.

#Glasgow by Raymond Depardon - PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN photos from 1980, by the #Magnum #photographer who brought out widely discussed book of Glasgow photos in 2016. www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

How it started / How it's going

Are we allowed to put the heating on now?

We're all going to capitalist hell

Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.

That time of year thou mayst in me behold when I listen to sonnet 73 open.spotify.com/track/6m58FC...

"A stone circle is an oil rig in embryo" and "the past is where we go to argue about the future." My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.

Saw Isabella Widger's exhibition in a spare room of a flat in Shawlands.

"I feel like social media is a party drug that we all started taking 10, 15 years ago in big doses. It was like, this is so fun. And now we're all addicted to it, and no one's getting high off it anymore. It's just maintenance." open.substack.com/pub/nymag/p/...

Finally saw that mural of hot Mary Barbour.

An attempt to understand addiction and Scotland's drug deaths crisis. open.substack.com/pub/neilscot...

Masonic Lodge Aesthetics.

After 2 years campaigning, today we celebrated the final approval of SPT's plans to bring our region's buses back into public control 🚍🥳 Now we need the ScotGov's support to make it happen! Help us reach 5,000 signatures on our petition 👇 📝 petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2116

Just a few more signatures needed

"Weren't the nineties great?" — @lukehaines.bsky.social

What kind of Gatekeeper are you: a snob, an enthusiast, a doorman, or a host? idlegaze.substack.com/p/idle-gaze-...

Sad that the last site I designed for SPT will be going offline in 6 days: www.mybramble.co.uk

Whenever I set my battery to charge to 80% (to supposedly preserve battery life) I am constantly assailed by the awareness that I will regret having done so when I am in need of that precious 20% later in the day.

More than 60 Glasgow streets are named after slave owners who made their fortunes on tobacco plantations. 8 statues erected around Glasgow are of people with direct connections to African trafficking, while the council invested in the slave trade. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2546386...

Worth noting that Joseph Overton was a libertarian who created the concept of the window as a way of making it easier to shift opinion, not maintain it.