Peter Jackson
@pjdelacour.bsky.social
Co-Director, Scottish Council on Global Affairs. Chair and Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow. International History, Security and Basketball. All views my own etc.
We live in the dumbest timeline with the dumbest, greediest, worst people in charge. It’s incredible.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
It’s really that simple. His ego and megalomania tie everything together—the war, the tariffs, the economy, affordability, the grift, the corruption, and his attempts to glorify himself with shiny objects large and small.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago"Get going!" -- Trump urges the South Dakota governor to get him on Mount Rushmore
@pjdelacour.bsky.social is making some very important reflections on the state of university education in Scotland in this thoughtful thread.
Peter Jackson@pjdelacour.bsky.social · 4w agoSo ... Scotland has three universities (St Andrews, Strathclyde and Glasgow) in the top 15 of the Times Good University Guide. Two are in the top ten (St Andrews and Strathclyde) and St Andrews is ranked as the best university in the United Kingdom for 2027. www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
The current Labour Government in Westminster seems almost proud to have adopted an unapologetically philistine attitude toward UK higher education and seems happy to run it down.
So ... Scotland has three universities (St Andrews, Strathclyde and Glasgow) in the top 15 of the Times Good University Guide. Two are in the top ten (St Andrews and Strathclyde) and St Andrews is ranked as the best university in the United Kingdom for 2027. www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027 revealed
St Andrews is ranked No 1 while Imperial College London beats Oxford and Cambridge to earn our University of the Year award
thetimes.com
So ... Scotland has three universities (St Andrews, Strathclyde and Glasgow) in the top 15 of the Times Good University Guide. Two are in the top ten (St Andrews and Strathclyde) and St Andrews is ranked as the best university in the United Kingdom for 2027. www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...
The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027 revealed
St Andrews is ranked No 1 while Imperial College London beats Oxford and Cambridge to earn our University of the Year award
thetimes.com
Canada is building a deeper alliance with the EU so that we may write our own futures — with our values, and our ambitions.
It’s Monday & Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood still has no response to hundreds of masked men blocking ports first in Dover now Portsmouth . No speech about keeping our communities safe , increasing the UK terror threat level , a crackdown on protest or calls to proscribe Patriot Platform 😳..
Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · last mo.Compare and contrast.
This is quite incredible. How unbelievably stupid does the Trump administration believe the American electorate to be?
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last mo.Not a single reference to Satan, the Antichrist, demons or Poltergeists in JD Vance's entire presser... but he did tell us that the Iran War is not a war, because it's a special military operation. It sounds better in the original Russian, спецоперaция. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Some career news. It is very hard to leave @glasgow.ac.uk and Scotland (home for the past 15 years). I’ll also miss working with fabulous colleagues @scga.scot. But I could not pass up a chance to lead a research program on Canada’s Security & Intelligence policy @ucalgary.bsky.social.
Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada
Recruiting world-leading researchers to UCalgary
research.ucalgary.ca
"Britain risks losing language skills to understand its enemies" The Times quotes @pjdelacour.bsky.social and @emile-chabal.bsky.social, directors of Scottish Council on Global Affairs www.thetimes.com/article/5df4...
Britain risks losing language skills to understand its enemies
Experts have warned Britain’s defence drive is overlooking the language and regional expertise needed to understand adversaries including Russia, China and Iran
thetimes.com
It is difficult to overstate the damage that has been done to American credibility in the world by this administration and its hopelessly amateurish approach to both waging war and negotiating peace. Trump Encounters a More Determined Iran as War Widens www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
U.S. Strikes Iran Again, as Trump Encounters a More Determined Adversary in Widened War
The United States is again exchanging strikes with Iran, just days after the president appeared to reject plans to escalate.
nytimes.com
The state of British journalism in 2026 …
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3mo agoEnjoyed Sam Coates' long monologue on how the VAT discount in energy bills is BOTH an insignificant drop in the ocean AND impossibly difficult to fund. Enjoyed Chris Mason's monologue about how yesterday was BOTH a total purge of all senior Starmer people AND not really real change. As you were.
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
inews.co.uk
This announcement from Five Eyes is interesting but a little hair raising. Indeed I haven’t seen anything quite like it. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/the-ai-...
The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now
ncsc.gov.uk
Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...
Russian saboteurs hired third operative for UK attacks
Footage points to the role of an unidentified man spraying anti-Muslim graffiti in London
ft.com
What the BBC doesn’t say is that Nalobin adds a whole other layer of complacency/incompetence/cover-up by UK govt. Read this to understand backdrop to this whole story & ask yourself why UK govt *still* refuses to investigate Kremlin interference in UK politics www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain
Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and aroun...
theguardian.com
Makes a change from all the people saying Europe will be nothing in the new world order. And the truth might be... somewhere in the middle?
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 4mo agoCarney: The new world order will be built from Europe. Canada is the most European of non-European countries, and we are transforming our cooperation with the EU ... In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada has chosen to build and work in partnership with Europe.
Genuinely astonishing to me how little discussion there is of the impact of the societal and economic change of the last 30 years, like the famous frog boiling happened, only it started eating the other frogs, and we blamed rising prices. bsky.app/profile/davi...
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5mo agoPleased and relieved to present my new paper on the "WhatsApp world order", on how an inter-connected world was created by technology and politics failed to keep up. There is a lot in here and I'll post some key findings to follow. ecipe.org/publications...
In no sense has the US “won” its war against Iran. The Trump administration has instead used systematic censorship and misinformation to disguise the damage done by Iranian drone attacks on its own or its Allies’ infrastructure. youtube.com/watch?v=5gHe...
How big a threat is Iran's military now? | Global News Podcast
YouTube video by BBC News
youtube.com
I hate to say it, but Scotland is becoming a true ripoff country. Just paid £15 to pick up family from the airport. The pay machine was £8 but didn’t work. I was told go to the barrier. By the time I got there, the price was £15. The State and its cronies look to gouge people however they can.
Pleased to contribute to this collection of expert analyses of the recent elections in Scotland. scga.scot/2026/05/19/m...
Making Sense of the Scottish Elections
Professor Peter Jackson, SCGA Co-director, has contributed an essay on NATO, Nukes and Negotiations to the Scottish Elections Analysis report.
scga.scot
So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell
Pleased to have contributed to this important publication.
Scottish Council on Global Affairs scga.scot@scga.scot · 5mo agoScottish Election Analysis 2026: The Campaign, Voters and Policies Immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2026 election from leading scholars in Scottish politics, elections, media and policy. @uofgsps.bsky.social @pjdelacour.bsky.social www.electionanalysis.uk
Scottish Election Analysis 2026: The Campaign, Voters and Policies Immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2026 election from leading scholars in Scottish politics, elections, media and policy. @uofgsps.bsky.social @pjdelacour.bsky.social www.electionanalysis.uk
