Legalising assisted dying creates more risk for Scottish domestic abuse victims. Please consider signing this petition www.change.org/p/legalising...

Assisted dying legalisation could become a lethal weapon for abusive men. @holyroodmag.bsky.social @forwomenscotland.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

We wrote to MSPs Clare Haughey & PaulSweeney with our deep concerns about Liam McArthur's Assisted Dying Bill. Scottish women experiencing domestic abuse are being ignored & put at risk. Looking forward to their response... www.scotsman.com/news/scottis...

We wrote to Clare Haughey & Paul Sweeney MSPs with our deep concerns about Liam McArthur's Assisted Dying Bill. Scottish women experiencing domestic abuse are being ignored & put at risk. Looking forward to their response... www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

New podcast #EndDomesticAbuse

: @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social - do the right thing: www.democratic-left.scot/post/end-thi... / @johnswinney.bsky.social @actsascotland.bsky.social @runnymedetrust.bsky.social @annidonaldson.bsky.social @amendlocke.bsky.social @maggiechapman.bsky.social @crer-scotland.bsky.social

Who (for now) owns Scotland? www.democratic-left.scot/post/this-la... / @andywightman.bsky.social @balaitous.bsky.social @ross-greer.bsky.social @amendlocke.bsky.social @annidonaldson.bsky.social @niallchristie1.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @calumbairdsongs.bsky.social @balaitous.bsky.social

The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse

No Victorian Christmas cheer at The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females theconversation.com/the-glasgow-... @theconversation.com @unistrathclyde.bsky.social

Should rivers have rights? Pleased to see Who Owns the Clyde? expanding their citizens' investigation 🌊 @louisewelsh00.bsky.social @judebarber.bsky.social petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

"To solve a problem, you have to understand the problem". Extremely important discussion, answering questions most Glaswegians will have had on the severance, disconnected and under-used nature of much of the Clydeside. Who owns the Clyde & how might things change? open.spotify.com/episode/0BWv...

In October, we published ‘"Pity the poor independent scholar!": The Lament of a Latecomer Historian', by John Sanders bit.ly/3NpBbf1. What are the problems faced by historians who work independently outside a university and its access to online resources? 1/2 #Skystorians

NAE PASARAN screens Saturday on BBC Scotland and will be available on iPlayer for a month after that! We'll worth the watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What would you do if you were handed a letter of apology from the UK government for the Balfour Declaration, complete with a promise of reparations to Palestine? Read about artist Farah Saleh's performance lecture response here:

Great piece by @annidonaldson.bsky.social in @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social about how her father - a bricklayer, trade unionist and communist from Possilpark - got involved as a young man in Cold War intrigues in Yugoslavia! Well worth a read: www.democratic-left.scot/post/the-bri...

Thanks to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for running with Ned's spy story from @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social www.democratic-left.scot/post/the-bri... #AutoputBratsfoYedinsfo #BritanskaOmlandinskiBrigada

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on X from January 20th The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

This week's 'Worsdall Wednesday' finds Frank way out west, in the former burgh of Hillhead. And, if you are a wealthy and up and coming burgh, you need your own burgh hall. Pic/text: Frank Worsdall's 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' (1981)

The debate over ending 100% inheritance tax exemption for farms is a reminder that there is no class so militant as the old nobility and the new Establishment combining to defend their vested hereditary interests 👇

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Mary Barbour and her army! 💪🏼

'The spy who went back to bricklaying.' Read about ma Da's undercover mission to post-war Yugoslavia... open.substack.com/pub/theglasg...

Tannahill True 21 Dec, Paisley – free Prof Fred Freeman celebrates the life & work of the weaver poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810). As a successor to Burns, Tannahill was likewise a master of musical forms & an exponent of Scots language in song & balladry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tannahill-...

Nearly one million women in the UK are trapped in dangerous relationships because of financial abuse, according to a groundbreaking study shared with Channel 4 News. Campaigners say successive governments have failed to tackle this “hidden crisis.” www.channel4.com/news/financi...

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Continuing our ‘Making a Real Difference’ series is Katie MacMillan, sharing her part in transforming Kingarth lane, once one of Glasgow's worst fly-tipping hotspots', and how this was successfully achieved. Read Katie’s full article here: www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/v4vrt...

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RP if you want the Monarchy gone. #AbolishTheMonarchy

Way back in ye olden days, I was a part of Science Twitter. When someone wanted to read an academic paper and it was behind a paywall, I created #icanhazpdf which was a signal that someone needed a paper but didn’t have access, and then someone would see the hashtag and send it to them for free

It's time to dig out this classic Bud Neill poem, and a favourite 1920s image of Kelvingrove Park and Glasgow University... Winter’s come, the snow has fell Wee Josie's nose is froze as well Wee Josie’s frozen nose is skintit Winter’s diabolic, intit?

Over 60? Writer? This is for you

A momentous day yesterday… our SGSAH CDA student Laura MacDonald’s first oral history interview with Agnes’s son @gentleman-of-west.bsky.social It’s thanks to John we are fortunate to host Agnes’s archive and it’s a real privilege to work with him on bringing her work to wider attention.

Hello Bluesky! Here's a not-quite-blue-but-lovely Glasgow winter sky for starters