Adam Ramsay
@adamramsay
Left wing journalist. Dad of Léa, Saoirse and Raven. Book ‘Abolish Westminster’ due out with Faber in November. Pre-order at: Also at: www.abolishwestminster.substack.com
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.
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.
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...
These pogroms are call in Loyalist areas. Why won’t the media say so? open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
For anyone who knows Belfast, the most obvious fact about last night’s pogroms is that they were all in Loyalist areas. Yet the British media has largely failed to mention this. Why?: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
Check out these pics from my forthcoming children’s book, drawn by Abigail Little. It’s due out in August.
Very worrying polling out of France today, showing the far right winning the presidency in every second round possibility :/
Left: Alberta, permitted an independence referendum; right, Scotland, not permitted an independence referendum.
Makerfield is fast becoming about the Westminster system. But, what do the main candidates plan to do about it?
Greens used to be one part of the independent group in the local government association. They now have their own grouping for the first time, which will bring some resource with it, I understand.
Remarkably, the top reason SNP voters have for voting SNP, was that they want to rejoin the EU.
The same survey looked at this - there were relatively few Labour - Reform switchers.
New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.
CONFIRMED: there is now a pro-independence majority in the new Scottish Parliament
If I am counting right, there have been four polls for the Holyrood election out today, three of which make for great reading for the @scottishgreens.org and the fourth would still be a record result.
“If you’re a psychopath and you’re poor, you end up in prison. If you’re a psychopath and rich, you end up in the House of Lords” - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
For Greens, the choice has always between being controversial, or being ignored. Electorally, the former is much better. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is having a great week.
- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @laurawebber.bsky.social addressing a packed out meeting in Glasgow tonight
An extraordinary poll from Find Out Now puts the Scottish Greens on 20% on the list, with 22 MSPs and the second party in Holyrood.
First sketches for my forthcoming children’s book “my dad brought beavers back” are now out - by Abigael Larson.