One constant in this moment for Iran is that @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social is a must read. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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One constant in this moment for Iran is that @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social is a must read. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Have you nominated a 2024/25 ScotLit academic book yet? Only a few weeks left...
We should set aside our petty grievances in order to make room for new and even more petty grievances
whatever the constitutional implications this is simply a huge test for limmy's first law
I wrote this on 'Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination', doi.org/10.1353/slr....
outside chance today's news delivers a new cover image for this classic
The Caledonian Trans Reveal Scottish Gender Novels in the Literature of Devolution University of Aberdeen
The Caledonian Trans Reveal
4 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online: free
Writer & performer Harry Josephine Giles looks at transgender figures across genres in modern Scottish literature – with @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @domenicodr.bsky.social & Moth McGowan
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i will never accept this excuse out of a society that demands you take on 5 to 6 figures of debt to commit to a degree for a career at age 18
Babe Ruth hit 149 home runs after Robert Duvall was born.
'many argue that the situation is worse in Scotland, with higher education institutions receiving approximately 23 per cent less funding per student than their English counterparts, according to London Economics, and a collective £12.9 million deficit forecast for 2025-26.' 1/2
45 years since Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981). We’re exploring its artwork, all by Gray. The title page remixes key motifs: the Brain Baby, Marion Oag’s portrait, and Applecross landmarks—micro-stories before page one.
true, and much angst comes with the subsequent filtration, within the university, for pleasant-bureaucrat capacities (diligence, reliability, secretarial competence) many clever people have never needed to develop
copilot, thank you
blogging - it's back!!
✨ Tonight on ARTE France: City Country Culture — Invitation au voyage spotlights Glasgow and Alasdair Gray. Filmed June 2025 by Orane Delépine & François Chambe, with @sorchadallas.bsky.social, @rodgeglass.bsky.social & Alan Riach. ✨ watch 👇🏽
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
please spread the word!
we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???
Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900, edited by Gary Love & Richard Toye, has now been published by CUP in Hardback & Paperback. Delighted to get my copies. Thanks to all the wonderful contributors who have helped us to bring the broader subject to life
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
just to record my children's continuing domination of the local Burns recital championship, the dynasty is undefeated
As the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting proved, the mainstream media needs to impose labels on what is often just ideological disarray and political incoherence. All narratives collapse in the face of the streamer.
I mean, it's not too early is it? We can all see the membership line-up, the constitution and the price for inclusion.
"I spent my morning buying water purification tablets, butane for a camping stove, a first aid kit and other emergency gear in between Slack messages and Zoom calls for my day job, where no one talks about the elephant in the virtual room."
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
it's genuinely incredible how nobody batted an eye at trump threatening imperialistic wars of expansion against mexico, iran, venezuela, nigeria, and colombia but the one that actually got people to be serious about the warmongering is denmark. parodic, even
There should be grave national concern about one of Britain’s leading economic sectors and chief export earners shedding tens of thousands of often skilled relatively well paid jobs. Universities are also key to local and regional economies across the country.
Last couple of issues of @thebaffler.com have been superb. I particularly loved this essay by Sophie Pinkham about Ms Rachel, early years education and TV, the joys of (certain) children's books and the genocide in Gaza thebaffler.com/salvos/speak...
when your GP goes completely silent on treatment options while working overtime on every detail of your funeral, down to who will empty the bins
