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

I’ve watched 5 of the 10 for “Best Picture” @TheAcademy Oscars. They exemplify the basic power of great films, as defined by Deleuze: “The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world”. What does Gilles mean? Read on at my @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2579...

Four Alternative Weekly reports on our SOLD-OUT #PowerShift “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest last Sunday—as well as clean energy biz beating Trump; effectively tackling dis/misinformation; blueprints for impact crowdfunding—and much more. Please sign up and share! mailchi.mp/6efdd9474b2a...

We had a SELL-OUT gig for #PowerShift at Celtic Connections this Sunday—a whirl of song, improvisation, facilitation, poetry and expertise, around the topic of communities and renewables. Let’s take it forward here: www.spring.site/powershift

For digital idealists, Grok’s “undressing” AI software is dispiriting. But if we reconfirm our human community—like we suggest at Sunday’s @ccfest #PowerShift event [https://www.spring.site]—can we put this computation to better use? My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/news/2577342...

Just a few tickets left for our #PowerShift event at @CCfest / Celtic Connections, tomorrow 3pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... see you there! 💨💨💨

LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…

LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…

Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...

Renewable energy and community control: discussion with @patkane.bsky.social -very interesting new dimension at Celtic Connections.

Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...

My @scotnational col today is about Scotland facing the oligarchs—& how communities generating their own energy defy the gangsters’ diktat www.thenational.scot/politics/257... Our #PowerShift event at @ccfest next Sunday deep dives into all this. For more, & tickets: spring.site

Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!

Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!

Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...

Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...

So the “settled will” of the Scottish people heaves towards independence. Did anybody ever imagine its main opposition would be an far-right grift operation, vehemently anti-immigration & anti-net-zero?

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

My usual 2026 preview of events & anniversaries & culture, for @ScotNational. America on its 250th—so is Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. China’s next 5 year plan commences—but will Grand Theft Auto VI finally be out in Sept? & much, much more www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/0ac9c2d03e87... Editorial on new paradigm artivism. Also: what cheap clothes cost the planet; how AI can turn against capitalism; the calming power of the polyvagal nerve—& much more. Details too of our @ccfest event, Jan 18th, 3pm. Come!

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

We’re in a podcast moment—immersed in conversations and personalities, with some even wanting to start their own. It’s rich, thick, blethery—and may be a better medium than social media for Indy activism and persuasion. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

New Alternative Weekly out! Editorial on young men vs. war itself. Also: Integral politics is “deeper, wider, longer”; we need weird stories 4 a warming world; u-lab cultivating planetary coherence—& much more. + spring.site stories. Sign up! mailchi.mp/8df79378f4d0...

The Chihuahua-In-Chief’s attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow, over beautiful & smart bi- or multi-lingual kids, is doomed—not least because we already accept the condition for Gaelic (& Scots). & AI just translates everything…My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

My beloved songbird wean @E_M_KANE’s new single is out now, ‘Hold Your Hand”. Listen, share! open.spotify.com/album/0ctKFL...

New Alternative Weekly (@AlterGlobal21) - Editorial on what @ZackPolanski could learn from🇩🇰’s @alternativet_. Hybrid working has a viable future; religion can step up to climate crisis; escape from capitalism—& much more. Spring.site too! mailchi.mp/73701d03fbe8...

Here’s 9 open-access posts of my Indy-minded Sat column for @scotnational [https://patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-national] - on “The Hack”, “The Diplomat” & Miss Jean Brodie; on China, & Ireland’s President; on the Picts, the nukes & Faragism. [Subscribe to paper: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/]

This new report from @Moreincommon_, on “Disillusioned Men”, explains how Reform can exploit men’s sense that they lack agency & meaning. But that may be exactly why Scots Indy politics is a powerful antidote to right-wing populism. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!

Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration measures will make integration harder—in an era where climate disruption will inevitably bring the South to the North. At least Scotland’s civic nationalism has prepped us for greater diversity. My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!

Struggling with quite strong emotions this morning. That an entity called “Scotland” doesn’t blow it, at the last minute, “you know our sense of timing”, etc… hmm. Deep stirrings. Found this in five minutes from the house 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚀

An insight into Pictish society reported from Orkney this week - they weren’t just violently obliterated by the Vikings, but adapted to their presence, innovating with their new context. Some lessons for the indy-minded today. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

How fucking magnificent is Patti Smith here. “Build the peaceable kingdom”. Yes sister youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA?...

Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...

There’s a new @NTSonline play coming of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, with the promise of “knives sharpened”. In these dark times, I hope the adaptation highlights its deep anti-fascism, with many lessons for today. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2560...

Latest Alternative Weekly is out now. Editorial on how culture will remove nukes; the rise of cooperative AI; let women do the peace talks; the music video of the year; democratic tech (including karaoke)—and much more. Enjoy, share, support! mailchi.mp/dc7f81f5b17f...

Happy interview on STV news, celebrating our (@hueandcry) Outstanding Achievement awards at the SMAs this Saturday. Also: big full-band tour in 2026! With @roachfordmusic & @JHJ_Official! Tickets here: hueandcry.co.uk/hue-and-cry-...