Graeme Macdonald
@gmacdonald
Literature Energy Environment Climate stuff @University of Warwick. Glasgow Dweller. Yes, they are quite far apart.
It ALL FINE because we here in the UK have TEMPORARILY banned DISPOSABLE BBQS. Phew.
All defenders of my generation hail il massimo. RIP Franco. Too soon.
Found an old LRB. Flicked through it, read an article on Beryl Bainbridge. This detail killed me:
The Roman Army is closed, lads. You’ll need to find another Army, sorry.
Getting nostalgic for FIFA's good old days of hotel hookers, bags of cash and cocaine parties. This new era of transparent sunlight corruption is going to kill the investigative reporting profession.
Pretty cool crash course in Toddler Mafia 101 for the rest of the world, if they didn't know already.
This is absolutely batshit. Anyone who knows anything about this knows it. She knows it. There are umpteen points of difference but that does not matter any more to someone desperately seeking a hit - her dignity for a hit.
*Whispers*: but also a desperate - sometimes a weirdly desperate - desire to be recognised and loved and celebrated? Interesting media loop here. Popularity of 'The Tartan Army ARE LOVED' stories > generate content > fans read and react to said content > act and drink and bagpipe accordingly.
Wild what Twitter became. Open discussion about concentration camps, etc, in the tone of folk that consider themselves in Gerard Butler films. People that gravitate to Netflix’s array of medieval crusade shows.
Absolute kudos to JD for hitting the tracksuit uncle demographic square on….
This 👇 from Stefan Collini's recent article in the @lrb.co.uk is jaw dropping. But it's also the logic of late extractive capitalism in the university funding system and in many other sectors. (Also the kind of scheme Tony Blair would recommend, only to disappear as it went South.)
everything you need to know about @championsleague1.bsky.social's devaluation of geographically fair football and the creation of a capitalist plutocracy. This is disgraceful. To even have FIVE is taking the piss. Six is just laughing at the open power flex.
Now, don’t fall into the prejudice trap of thinking any supporter from any class background is incapable of appreciating the relevance of historical monuments. But this is a take. Did Sir John like the wine too, aye?
Yeah, because what everyone (ie the majority of us who do not order pizzas from drones) wants is the sight and sound of these nightmarish inventions endlessly flying frivolous shit around their neighbourhoods. I *really* hope there is a healthy response to this bullshit. I have an idea......
and now, no doubt, we will get the lads on to tell us who object in our bones to this, to grow up and realise the realpolitik, the history of the 'relationship', etc, etc. But this is still sickening. At what point do we simply just say NO to all of this shit?
Just a “left” oriented magazine openly shouting for a union to be “broken”. The same opinions about Scottish politics from the same centre right guy for ever.
cool cool - but do you stop being funny after 50? (uhm, maybe even 40....) 🤔
“The Board of Peace has rejected your plea for peace assistance due to your poor location.”
Sorry but late capitalism and FIFA and the US are making it hard for me to get on board….#worldcup2026
I am going to get Glasgow City Council to make a formal bid to control this constellation. I mean weegies *controlling* the Sun. Imagine.
RIP to Allan. If you know, you know, etc..... Spent a LOT of time with this classic and many others of the Ahlbergs. Thanks to them.
English Premiership football: pure, unbridled extractivism. Use the power of the hedge fund to pull out the best young player from a storied “big” club. Not even 20. To become “one of your options.” @afcajax.bsky.social The EPL is a vampiric enterprise that sucks the lifeblood of “smaller” leagues.
The UK has seen 40 years of “investment” asset seizure and value extraction “for the market”. There’s shit in the rivers, dysfunctional transport networks and water infrastructure, brutal rent hikes. Unaffordability rules. But yeah, “the spending hungry left.” These people are court jesters…
This is beyond depressing. It’s chilling. I’m assuming that someone in this ‘major Scottish institution’ has actually pre-approved this massive public advert for violence? What has this to do with sport? Embarrassing, worrying, vile. Why is this allowed?