I had a lot of fun launching my children’s book “my dad brought beavers back” at a sell-out story time at @portybooks.bsky.social this morning. Get your copy from their website!
Adam Ramsay
@adamramsay.bsky.social
Left wing journalist. Dad of Léa, Saoirse and Raven. Book ‘Abolish Westminster’ due out with Faber in November. Pre-order at: https://linktr.ee/abolishwestminster. Also at: www.abolishwestminster.substack.com
Burnham’s basic problem is that he has promised to deliver system change, and to unite the Labour Party. But Labour is part of the system, and most of it doesn’t want fundamental change.
Jonathan Porritt has been arrested. As he says "trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
Controversial opinion, but I think the way @zackpolanski.bsky.social is very accessible online and engages with loads of people is good. Greens should resource him to so there is a little more filter, but spending time engaging with people in every possible way is kind of his job.
The european beaver was extinct here til @adamramsay.bsky.social's dad reintroduced them! It's happened in my lifetime bsky.app/profile/adam...
Adam Ramsay@adamramsay.bsky.social · last wk.I’ll be launching my new children’s book ‘My dad brought beavers back’ at @portybooks.bsky.social on Sunday morning - come along! Or, pre-order a copy!
I very much enjoyed going on Radio2 this afternoon to say that Farage and his lackies are pathetic little cry bullies.
I just did LBC on T-shirt-gate with newborn strapped to me in the sling. The two year old ran in half way through because her iPad wasn’t working. But I think I managed to make the basic point that we’re only talking about this because Nigel Farage is a massive crybully. You stand up to bullies.
I’ll be launching my new children’s book ‘My dad brought beavers back’ at @portybooks.bsky.social on Sunday morning - come along! Or, pre-order a copy!
There’s a 20% discount on pre-orders of Abolish Westminster at @waterstones.bsky.social for the next couple of days.
Count Binface has lots of perfectly sensible policies, but I’m horrified by his ignorance of frozen dairy product history. 99 ice creams are so called because they were invented at a shop at 99 Portobello High Street, in 1922. They won’t have cost 99p then - that was the equivalent of £50.04 today.
We can enjoy a great view watching the fires from the newly-repositioned Overton Window
Britain’s biggest mountain range is on fire. The Rhine, Rhône and Danube are parched in terrifying droughts, and Britain’s new prime minister is promising to drill baby, drill.
You can now pre-order copies of my forthcoming children’s book ‘my dad brought beavers back’. Get yours from @portybooks.bsky.social: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978191788106...
My Dad Brought Beavers Back, Adam Ramsay (Paperback preorder)
MY DAD BROUGHT BEAVERS BACK gives a rhyming account of the true story about how Adam’s parents, Paul and Louise Ramsay, reintroduc...
theportobellobookshop.com
This is *quite* the read! "The #FossilFuel industry all over the world relies heavily on English and Welsh law. If we want to think about our role in preventing #ClimateBreakdown, we need to consider how we can stop our courts from servicing the organisations driving us over a cliff edge."
Adam Ramsay@adamramsay.bsky.social · last mo.Big polluters love few things more than a British courtroom. We need to understand why: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... <- by me
Save the philosophy department at Dundee university: c.org/bn4gxkkzM6
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I was sorry to hear David Potter has died. @anthonybarnett.bsky.social has written a lovely obituary: www.opendemocracy.net/obituary-dav...
Remembering David Potter: Industrialist, physicist, philanthropist
How the Psion founder and tech titan combined scientific brilliance with fearless philanthropy to champion public good
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All of the kids at my daughters’ nursery are still singing “no Scotland, no party”. Which tells you something about how national self-impressions form.
As Keir Starmer announces a surge in military spending, it’s important to remember that a large chunk of Britain’s ‘defence’ budget is actually focussed on protecting the global oil trade: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
How the British military props up the oil industry
And how the oil industry influences the Ministry of Defence (long read)
open.substack.com
Big polluters love few things more than a British courtroom. We need to understand why: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... <- by me
How Britain's legal system fuels the climate breakdown
How our laws help the oil industry escape responsibility for much of the harm it causes
open.substack.com
Edinburgh folk! I’ll be launching my children’s book ‘my dad brought beavers back’ with a storyline at @portybooks.bsky.social on 2 August. Come along! www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/story...
Story Time with Adam Ramsay at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for Story Time with Adam Ramsay on 2nd August, at The Portobello Bookshop
theportobellobookshop.com
Big polluters love few things more than a British courtroom. We need to understand why: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... <- by me
How Britain's legal system fuels the climate breakdown
How our laws help the oil industry escape responsibility for much of the harm it causes
open.substack.com
Power devolved is power retained. A new prime minister letting regional mayors make more decisions for now isn’t nothing, but it’s not the fundemental constitutional rewiring that we need.
Big polluters love an British court. They work hard to make sure they are protected by British judges. We need to understand how our legal system is killing the planet: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
How Britain's legal system fuels the climate breakdown
How our laws help the oil industry escape responsibility for much of the harm it causes
open.substack.com
My third daughter, Raven Isla Ramsay Daigre, was born last week. If Andy Burnham does appoint oil industry shill James Purnell as his chief of staff, he will be setting fire to her future: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
We had another baby last week! And I’ve been watching the political events since then through that lens: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
The last British party leader to secure a majority and serve a full term as prime minister was Tony Blair 2001-2005. This is not a stable political system.
Being the best fans in the world cheering on a mediocre team is what being Scottish is all about.