Tam Britton
@tambritton.bsky.social
Trade unionist, cinema, music, books, curries, single malt whisky and Thistle.
Why, as Reform UK's chances of winning the next general election drift away, the BBC still seems determined to give them an outsized level of attention adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
How the BBC Is Propping Up Nigel Farage
As Reform UK’s chances of winning the next general election drift away, the national broadcaster is riding to their rescue
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Exclusive: The Bell has learned political editor of the Daily Record, Paul Hutcheon, has quit, after an alleged affair with Labour MP for East Kilbride, Joani Reid. As reported by Private Eye, Hutcheon oversaw favourable exclusives of Reid at his paper in past few months.
Staff at Edinburgh University are in their fifth week of strikes over proposed cuts. Unions warn 1,800 jobs could be lost, while around 90 degree programmes face closure
Departing Edinburgh uni boss says he’s committed to the job – but still won’t say what his second role pays
As staff at Scotland’s largest university continue strikes over sweeping cuts, their boss still won’t say what his second job pays on top of his £425,000 salary.
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Household economies are central to stories of class, poverty and social mobility. I worked with Janet Greenlees and Gillian Murray to record women's accounts of 'getting by' and 'getting on' in deindustrialising Lanarkshire. Our findings emphasise budgeting, paid and unpaid care and homeownership .
Household economies in deindustrialising Lanarkshire by Ewan Gibbs, Gillian Murray & Janet Greenlees - Social History Blog
In 2023 we took part in an interdisciplinary project (CommonHealth Catalyst), about health and wellbeing in Lanarkshire, a deindustrialising region to the east of Glasgow. Our research oriented toward...
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Storm Boelo A Henderson hat-trick The Firhill faithful who wouldn't be anywhere else ☔️ Nutmeg editor @danielgraywriter.bsky.social braved the elements for his latest Slow Match Report, as the Jags top the Championship table ✍️ 📖➡️ tinyurl.com/y3vpc64s
NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...
The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin
Or why now’s the time to buy a wind-up radio
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Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈
International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election win.
World reacts to Lula's victory in Brazilian presidential race
International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election win.
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A company led by overt fascists with clear sympathies and commercial to a US regime that is an adversary should not have access to information about MoD processes, or be awarded any business that puts the MoD in the position of relying on them.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6d ago🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...
#PTFCStatsWatch 👀 - 8 league clean-sheets by October is unprecedented in Partick Thistle history. #COYJ 🇧🇪 ⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️
A deserted Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow turned golden by autumn leaves stripped from the surrounding trees by Storm Boelo as it passes across the city this afternoon. #glasgow #kelvinway #stormboelo #autumnleaves #glasgowtoday
Partick Thistle Football Club is proud to support Show Racism the Red Card's Weekend of Action today. Racism and discrimination of all forms have no place in Scottish football and no place at the WrightKerr Stadium at Firhill. Read more > buff.ly/BDcDvwW
Polls show leftist incumbent Lula closing gap on right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of second round of voting.
What to know as Brazil prepares for tense presidential run-off
Polls show leftist incumbent Lula closing gap on right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of second round of voting.
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We welcome Angela Scott’s announcement to pause the compulsory redundancy process. We have always been willing to return to the negotiations in good faith and the two week pause allows us to do this with the aim of reaching a position that reduces the number of compulsory redundancies. 1/2
Match day at Firhill Stadium, Glasgow. Home of Partick Thistle since 1909.
This metaphor is ridiculously obvious and unsubtle. Fire the writers. They're hacks.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last wk.This is sad. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic World War II globe was broken when Pete Hegseth’s team dropped it while trying to move it into his office.
A few thoughts on the announcement that the Jackdaw gas field development will go ahead 🧵 You'll hear claims today arguing we need Jackdaw for various reasons. Primarily some combination of energy security, perhaps cheaper bills and jobs. We should be sceptical of them.
Karl Marx: the contradictions of capitalism produce the conditions of its own downfall, creating a proletarian class that will emancipate itself from the class of capital and thus inherit the earth The class of capital: not if we torch the earth first, bitch
Sky News@news.sky.com · last wk.Controversial Jackdaw gas field expected to be approved
The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says
There is an increasingly disingenuous narrative peddled in Scotland about the impacts of granting new oil and gas licences on North Sea production levels and job security. Amid this, it’s important to look at evidence 🧵
Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.
The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive
"Many elected officials within Reform believe the party is putting on an acceptable face to get elected, and then would install a British ICE, engage in mass deportations, or enact violent reprisals against civil servants, police officers, and others who it felt had betrayed Britain."
The mask has slipped - now we can see the real, shameful face of Reform
ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions
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‘Last night of the pogroms’
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w agoGB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-m...
Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.
