🚨 NEW: @danneidle.bsky.social claims Scotland’s 48% tax rate has lost public revenue. But is this actually true? My new deep-dive says no – Dan’s analysis doesn’t prove anything. It’s a long read, so buckle up 🧵
Stewart Kirkpatrick
@calgacus.bsky.social
Impact wrangler and mass digital mobilisation rabble-rouser. Also, recovering journalist
(No, there should not be a by-election, no, it is not a democratic outrage to fill vacancies from the list, this is basic list PR voting system stuff that preserves proportionality, don't be tiresomely FPTP-brained.) (Peerages are, however, an actual democratic outrage)
Anas has gone from promising to scrap the House of Lords to taking a seat in it. He has spent years attacking the very institution he is now preparing to join. The hypocrisy is breath-taking.
There’s a 20% discount on pre-orders of Abolish Westminster at @waterstones.bsky.social for the next couple of days.
The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.
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.
¡No pasaran! True now. True 90 years ago in Spain. But they did pass then and will again unless we all step up sharpish
Wow, Burnham's not even in Downing Street yet and he's already a crushing disappointment #Rosebank
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Wow, @netflix.com's World War II From The Frontlines is dumber than a box of hair. Manages not to mention the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 nor the huge number of French troops evacuated at Dunkirk and we're just 20 mins in.
Having watched Enola Holmes 3, can I ask that budding scriptwriters learn the difference between "and I" and "and me"?
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
opendemocracy.net
Scotland should not allow war criminals or fascists to profit from our land or our people. It's time to seize Trump's golf courses.
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
"AI's amazing. It's going to take our jobs." Also, I was at Lewis Capaldi's concert in Limerick on Friday. Check out the AI overview I've juat been given...
Maybe the problems with Scottish football go way beyond just the manager...
And that's that for another dismal Scotland #WorldCup campaign. See you in another 28 years..
This is very good: The great paradox of Scotland’s World Cup. The fans, superb. The team? Dismal | Ewan Murray www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The great paradox of Scotland’s World Cup. The fans, superb. The team? Dismal | Ewan Murray
Scotland find themselves in purgatory, hanging around as a faint hope of progression to the last 32 lives on
theguardian.com
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · last mo.
Climate breakdown is here. We must double down on efforts to decarbonise but that's not enough. We need new rights at work to protect us from climate danger - failing to act now will endanger workers' lives and cost our health service dearly.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.64% of Britons would support a law where employers cannot require workers to work if the temperature of the working environment is above 30C Net support by age 18-24yr olds: +58 25-49yr olds: +47 50-64yr olds: +34 65+yr olds: +23 yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
We had another baby last week! And I’ve been watching the political events since then through that lens: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
If only there was some kind of pithy line from a gritty film to sum up what it's like being Scottish