Here’s our 3rd impact track from the new @hueandcry LP “Everybody” (listen/buy here: www.slinky.to/EverybodyHueCry). It’s called Everybody Deserves To Be Loved—lyric video below. “No more pointless anger/Just joy is what I see…” ❤️

Here’s our 3rd impact track from the new @hueandcry LP “Everybody” (listen/buy here: www.slinky.to/EverybodyHueCry). It’s called Everybody Deserves To Be Loved—lyric video below. “No more pointless anger/Just joy is what I see…” ❤️

Open-access versions of my @ScotNational column now updated & available on my E2 Substack. All angles on AI - from Pope to Wikipedia - & takes on Vivienne Westwood, press photography, chemputers, defying the bond markets, & profound Edinburgh patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-... Enjoy, share!

Proudness! This is official release day for our (@hueandcry’s) new electro-pop album, ‘Everybody’. All the streaming options here slinky.to/EverybodyHueCry and some early rave reviews below. Love to GK, & the Blairhill Media team, for amazing work. Play it, share it, dance around…

Proudness! This is official release day for our (@hueandcry’s) new electro-pop album, ‘Everybody’. All the streaming options here slinky.to/EverybodyHueCry and some early rave reviews below. Love to GK, & the Blairhill Media team, for amazing work. Play it, share it, dance around…

"One of this year’s best synth-pop albums", says the Louder Than War music blog about our forthcoming album Everybody, out May 29th. Review here louderthanwar.com/hue-and-cry-... Album available here: slinky.to/EverybodyHue....

The sword of Damocles hanging over all democracies are the bond markets—unelected judges of a nation’s debt management. How would Scots Indy handle them? Might local council pension funds be better sources for investment? My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/261...

Really need more of @joycemcm.bsky.social's lapidary sentences on the political situation in Scotland and UK. Get thee to Substack, Joyce! archive.ph/Y54ry

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/34b652ca2a8f... Editorial on the fertile “stramash” coming out of last week’s elections. Also: Is the climate crisis also a crisis of modern men? Two great new books of political integrity. The invention of baddies. And: Raveheart! Enjoy, share!

Very happy with this @ClassicPopMag review of our forthcoming @hueandcry album “Everybody”. Major feature too. LP is out on all platforms 29th May, buy a range of hard copies here hueandcry.tmstor.es

The most interesting Scottish election commentary yesterday from @ailsahenderson.bluesky.social Some good pointers for what the “independence majority” should do, at least in terms of tone, next:

As the Scottish election results piled in yesterday afternoon, I was struck by the sociology & class demographics behind both @scottishgreens & Reform UK support. They reinforce the need for indy to appeal to inclusivity & plurality. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2609...

New elections-ready Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/12b5fcff05ee... Editorial overview of UK elections, with a short www.spring.site manifesto for Scotland. Also: ecocivilisation & democracy, German youth refusing war, citizens directing data centres—& much more. Enjoy, share!

Being a Terran, & being a Scot, has mostly shaped my actions over 62 years. I want humans to live happily & non-destructively on this planet. An indy Scotland enables us, here, to play our full part in that. So, as usual for me: 1st vote @theSNP, 2nd vote @scottishgreens

Electoral politics in Scotland seems like balloons in a windtunnel. For my @scotnational piece, I decided to go straight to the research base in Scotland, listing our recent “world firsts” in sci-tech & humanities. Refreshing! & a model for a worldly Indy www.thenational.scot/comment/2607...

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/4c0ffe563ec5... Editorial on the revolution required. Posts on: 146 names for a new economy, the huge potential for rooftop gardens, Russian citizens resistance, & much more. Plus news from www.spring.site. Enjoy, share, sign up!

So @jimmy_wales is speaking In Edinburgh end of May, at @DataLabScotland’s big event. Amazing to consider how @Wikipedia has gone from “mob rule” to “verified resource” over 25 yrs. A model for how communities may control AI’s powers? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

After Easter, Alternative Weekly’s back mailchi.mp/40179900db2c... Editorial on playing the game of citizenship. Posts on resilience (not Westminster), UNs indigenous forum, Iran’s LEGO-Ganda, working-class greens & much more. Some www.spring.site stories too. Enjoy, share!

It’s nearly a consensus among prog parties in this election that Scotland should copy Ireland’s basic income for artists. The stats are great. But prepping the rest of us for an AI-driven, post-work world might be its biggest result. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

Here’s the lyrics video for our latest @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share!

Lyrics video for our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger (also here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful….Please share and go there! PK x

Here’s the lyrics video for our latest @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share!

The @WorldPressPhoto Awards are always a stunning display of technique & vital news reporting. But historically, “if it bleeds, it leads”—those pics usually drawn from the global South. Are the 2026 awards better, more representative? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/news/2601242...

Here’s the lyrics video for new @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share! youtu.be/37vNdMYXqO4?...

I’m very much looking forward to speaking as an expert in these hustings tonight (Wednesday, 6.30, details below

I’m very much looking forward to speaking as an expert in these hustings tonight (Wednesday, 6.30, details below

Election hustings on digital society with @patrickharvie.bsky.social, Vonnie Sandlan (Labour), @blench.bsky.social (SNP) with Anna Burnside (chair), @patkane.bsky.social and @lilianedwards.bsky.social nationalconversations.org/events/1/

Must admit to being stirred by @NASA crew on their way to the dark side of the moon. Robots could take their seats, and the moguls & generals aren’t far away. But the urge to fathom the universe has to be answered. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

Foolish for Sarwar to seek electotal advantage (over NHS app) that has Palantir’s involvement. They’re blood smeared, & a surveillant threat to these islands. And like Musk, they remind us just how weird US power elites currently are. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Looks a solid win for indy-supporting parties in the May Holyrood elections. But surveys don’t just show 1/5th Scots voting for Reform—a third of those support Indy… What explains this? & what attracts them, beyond Farage’s shtick? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Very nice for us (@hueandcry) to play for @KirstyWark on her @BBCFrontRow show, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... [starts at 20.37] Promoting our new single Stronger & forthcoming album Everybody (see www.hueandcry.co.uk). Quote: “We’re putting flesh on the bones of the future”!

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/f35d62c4c742... Editorial on the mildly radical Oscars. Posts on the unconscious & politics; Theroux & the manosphere; cli-fi, AI and the alchemy of improv & music. www.spring.site stories on Glasgow’s future. Share, support, thanx!

Nice when your adopted home gets rated world’s ”3rd best city” by @timeout. But you come to Edinburgh for more than tourist food-&-arts consumerism. It’s also a place of urban contrasts, green wellbeing, and intellectual adventure. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2593...

Live version of our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger, recorded at Darwen Theatre (studio recording here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). Share! Jump!

It’s not a bad way to celebrate my 62nd birthday—in the early promo for a forthcoming electro album (go to www.hueandcry.co.uk). “He not busy being born is busy dying” is my t-shirt slogan today. Love to Everybody x

What does a Green victory in a Northern-English by-election have to do with Scotland’s energy agenda? It shows the diff btwn constitutional radicalism & (understandable) class revolt. Indy is a bigger prize for ecological politics. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Major update of my Substack archive of my @ScotNational column over last few months—free to access. Freud, AI, cinema (via Oscars), Trumpism/Farageism, all with an Indy-mindedness about them… Enjoy, share! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-...

Lyrics video for our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger (also here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful….Please share and go there! PK x

Forget Oedipus & being envious of various appendages…Freud’s interest in how our darker emotions manifest themselves is acutely relevant to our age of authoritarianism, frustration and resentment. Neuroscience gives him an update too. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/comment/2587...

Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖

The good people behind the Tom Nairn conference are setting up an events series called “Make Hope Possible” (after Raymond Williams quote). Very much worth supporting - first talk here with @CarolineLucas and @AdamRamsay. Signs of life… makehopepossible.org/tickets/

Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖

My @scotnational column this week investigates whether AI spy-cams—detecting you using your moby while driving—are the thin end of a new surveillance regime. Or maybe a good use of the tech… www.thenational.scot/politics/258... Plus: a side-bar menshie for the new @hueandcry record! Thank u!

Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger

Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger

New Alternative Weekiy out mailchi.mp/2951056b57a9... Editorial on reckoning with AI. Plus: Zurich’s coops solving Europe’s housing crisis; carbon overshoot likely, climate storytelling mobilises youth. From www.spring.site: wind-wealth coming, Glasgow supperclubs here. RT!

The cancellation of a “hyperscale” data centre in Edinburgh is a triumph for campaigners—& a pause button for those of us interested in AI. If used for liberating humans into a post-work world, could we then agree how best to power it? My @ScotNational col thenational.scot/news/25834578.…

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d76a2d000dc2... Our editorial nails it: “Fascism won’t win”. Also: amazing mutual aid in Minnesota, & a new era for US activism; UK govt’s climate gloom revealed; why tears aren’t to be trusted—& more. + News from www.spring.site Share!

Reform’s Lord Offord (aka Big Jock) made a terrible bid to harness @deaconbluemusic’s song Dignity to his far-right cause. But he’s in a long tradition of politicians hijacking pop songs to juice up their campaigns—Trump preeminently. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

New Alternative Weekly newsletter mailchi.mp/3ddee2991714... Applying advanced democracy, emotional literacy and youthful leadership to the climate crisis; Scottish community wealth building; & what’s “street epistemology”? Also www.spring.site stuff. Enjoy & please share