"They are trying to make hunting difficult because of one murder" First, just to get it right, Dunblane was not “one murder”. It was the murder of sixteen children, their teacher, alongside fifteen others who were seriously wounded...

Interesting to see a return of the term "Ned" to mainstream media in the last couple of years. That's a few times now that journalists have felt comfortable throwing around the label, thinking not about the implications, let alone caring about them.🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2625367...

Huge match for the people of Scotland tonight... #worldcup

Queen's have given me expert status in my field. Check out my details below for any related work or insight. www.qub.ac.uk/News/find-an...

I did say I'd make my own wee World Cup tune... Here's a wee Scottish Makina number to get folk in the mood for Wednesday. Titled as such in respect of the new book #Raveheart by @graemearmstrong.bsky.social ‘Raveheart (2026)’ by GFB is on #soundcloud m.soundcloud.com/gavin-f-brew...

"Poor white children aren't victims of the state, but of bad parenting" Or so John Townsley would have you believe. Some thoughts on this here: www.linkedin.com/posts/gavin-...

Belfast in an eerie state. Everything closed. The vast majority of buses stopped. Also seen the media cutting about taking photos of smashed windows (which have been smashed for a while now). Asked them about it and got pied. Stoking panic.

How Glasgow's young teams got happy for hardcore www.glasgowbell.co.uk/happy-hardco...

Productive end to the week. Long overdue catch up with @crmnlgy.bsky.social and @robbiejourno.bsky.social this morning for a wee scran and coffee. Then got a new article in for submission after weeks of effin about with it. Few smokies and some reading now before an early night. Slàinte mhath!

The Ned Culture Renaissance has just peaked. 15-year-old me is in that collection somewhere, so please ignore the bleached blonde barcode fringe and hoop earring. 😆

Notice! Scots can apply for the School Age Payment Grant (£331.95 per child) from today. The grant is for families with children aged 4 and 5, who are ready to start primary school. This can go toward uniforms, trips, stationery, etc. Read more and apply here: www.mygov.scot/best-start-g...

⚠️Limited time offer on Amazon before release on 04/06!!!! ⚠️ #Raveheart www.amazon.co.uk/Raveheart-be...

Two great minds and orators when discussing social class and the place of working-class people in Scottish politics and society. Nae polished social media affectation or pseudo intellectualism here, these guys are the real deal who are well informed, researched and have lived the life!

Friday, 14th August. I'll be live at the @edinburghfringe.bsky.social with Darren McGarvey as part of his latest conversation series "Performative Male". We will be discussing politics, class, identity and culture in Scotland. Tickets on the link below: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2912/...

Article by Greg Martin. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Like the conversation between the sword and the neck". Ghassan Kanafani highlights the inherent contradictions and detachment in Western media interviews. A Marxist-Leninist and active member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Kanafani was assasinated on 8th July, 1972.

Many thanks to @graemearmstrong.bsky.social for an early copy of his brand new book – a hardback too! And an additional thank you too for the thoughtful wee mention in it.

Exactly as I predicted!

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The Demon Drink. We are all so invested in football. It means so much to us. But as a class, due to the trauma and hardships we endure, many of us struggle to enjoy the good without alcohol. We struggle to find a sense of escapism. But sadly, with a drink, we struggle even more.

Despite the constant talks of "progressive" politics by those in power these last few months, the Scottish Government are doing absolutely nothing to prevent thousands of job cuts across Scottish academic institutions. Where is the support for the country's educators? A complete shambles!

"The whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum—not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference." Jean Baudrillard

Ravers & readers of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 … Raveheart: The Launch Party @ SWG3 - 03/06/26 -7pm-1am ⏰ Arrive early, stay late 🦺 Dress to sweat ⚠️ Over 18s only www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...

Latest Queen's Communities and Place QCAPTURE, with a wee mention for the Sociology Association of Ireland Conference, some of the great work that was on show, and the launch of the brilliant new book 'Notions: The Lives of Working Class Academics'. www.qub.ac.uk/sites/qcap/n...

Great day at the Sociological Association of Ireland Conference. As expected given contemporary global discourse, there were numerous talks on race, migration, and far right. Yet, class was rarely mentioned despite being a central feature in much of the above. Unimportant or uninteresting? Curious.

Happy Star Wars Day, my friends.

Raveheart: The Book Tour… Loads of dates up and some still TBC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌪️ lnkfi.re/ZCeuno #GraemeArmstrong #Raveheart

First time putting together a special issue proposal. All in the space of a few weeks. A lot of sleepless nights to get an eight paper proposal sent in. Hopefully it gets the thumbs up but a lesson learned in the work involved for these things regardless. 🥶 😆

Join us next Wednesday 29 April to discuss Daniel Hill, Stephen McLeod, Attila Tanyi, and Tarek Yusari’s paper, "The Law and Ethics of Entrapment: Definition, Evaluation, and Implications". Hope to see you online!

Last night's @telegraph.co.uk event. An incredibly diverse panel (lol) answering the kind of questions that only their class ever seem to ask. Really sad to have missed that...

Few thoughts on recent exploitative "content creation" in Glasgow. www.linkedin.com/posts/gavin-...

Every. Single. Time.

Linkedin has always been a place where self-interest and an entrepeneurial mindset has existed without much critique on the platform – it's simply the accepted etiquette on there. Because of that, it's a place I've always found generally quite fake in terms of personality and intention. However...

Have received a lot of messages following last night's appearance on the new BBC series "Ultras". Really nice to be a part of it, and the team involved in the making of it were all great. Three episodes, so hopefully people enjoy the remainder of the show. If you missed it, it's also on iPlayer.

Just watched the new Louis Theroux Manosphere documentary. Really insightful and depressing in equal measure, but not too much of it was actually surprising. 🧵

Said it before, and I'll say it again, Scotland should boycott this World Cup. Unpopular perhaps but there is no justification for going to a World Cup, in a country that is committing mass murder and aiding genocide. Simple as that.

In 2003, the Daily Record supported Labour and the illegal invasion of Iraq. A few months later, Jack McConnell announced his 'War on Neds'. 🧵 1/9

"Scotland would be safer if our police had guns". The @thecourier.co.uk published this article by Jim Spence claims that was later picked up on by BBC Radio Scotland. Here are some thoughts.🧵 www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/c...

QCAP Queen's Communities and Place's currently has three fully-funded PhD opportunities available: Developing Measurement Tools for Community-Academic Partnerships: Building Capacity, Sustainability, and Replication Across Place. www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

"You don't need fascism until the crisis of capitalism, and then it becomes its only saviour". Oswald Mosley to Megan Lloyd George, 1933.

Interesting framing. So, for MPs, who make c.£94k per year, low income is the reason for the corruption? But when the poor, who struggle on around one-fifth of that amount, commit crime as a means for survival, it's inherent, and a matter of moral degradation? Welcome to the class war.

A perfect example of the media’s role in preserving ruling‑class power and global hegemony. The deliberate obfuscation of facts here – what occurred and who was responsible – reconfigures 'common sense' around the issue, while redirecting attention toward a pre‑existing folk devil.

My doctoral thesis is now in the GCU Library. However, there is a two year restriction in place for various planned outputs and monograph. researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

For generations, communists have challenged the complete depravity of the upper and political classes. It was downplayed as "politics", or "conspiracy". Knowing now of their deeds, do you still believe, the same political and economic system, actually serves YOU?

Buzzing for this new book by @graemearmstrong.bsky.social. Remember him coming to my talk over at @glasgow.ac.uk and telling me all about it. So much time and work went into it (I've no idea how he is managing to do a PhD alongside it). But it sounded brilliant, and another cultural classic!

The National Rebirth Party standing at their own stall just a couple of days ago in Leicester. Some thoughts below...

Murdering and gassing their own people? They've a history of it! On 13th May 1985 in West Philadelphia, police laid siege to a rowhouse occupied by MOVE – a Black liberation group – trying to force them out. First the gunfire, then the tear gas, and then the unthinkable... 1/3

Non-conventional Burns Supper fusion dish. For anyone interested, here's a wee overview. Very easy to make this. Slow cooked Korean beef brisket (slow cooker). Simply add gochujang, honey, mirin, dark soy, light soy, toasted sesame oil, and a touch of oyster sauce and rub it all in then cook. 1/3

Is there, for honest poverty, That hings his head, an' a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Our toils obscure, an' a' that; Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp; The man's the gowd for a' that