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Great to see yet more discussion of James Steuart, drawing on my article tracing the Jacobite background to his political economy, and the French flavour of his Enlightenment thought. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Pleased to be featured in the latest edition of SLR! We wrote about how the shadow of nuclear weapons looms over the great struggles of our time for the left: climate, militarism, austerity and economic justice. Read online now!

☮️ "It is important to frame a robust response to the notion of deterrence because it is the single most utilised line of propaganda about nuclear weapons." Excellent piece by Samuel at Scottish CND in the latest @ScottishLeftRev.

"Perhaps the worst name for a discipline ever is Intellectual History". Nevertheless I'm happy to now be an Associate Director of Institute of Intellectual History whose new rootsandbranches podcast starts with Richard Whatmore on why 18th century Scotland contains solutions to the problems of the present.

"Marx came from eighteenth century Scotland, obviously not literally, but he drew on Adam Smith and David Hume directly" - not to mention James Steuart, who Marx said avoided Smith's simple-mindedness and understood history, and who I write about here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Co-authored a piece for Scottish Left Review with Sophie Johnson on Scotland’s narrowing political horizon - and what might be done about it. Full article: scottishleftreview.scot/low-ebb/

"Shaetlan bird names – peerie whaap, skeer devil, blood linnet – weave island folklore into the tragedy of modern biodiversity loss: 'Every year more and more face extinction: Now one in four in this dried up, dying country.'" Flick Monk's beautiful review of The Shetland Way:

For the Parapraxis resistance issue I wrote about the lines of flight forged by some of the most important revolutionaries of our time. Among other things, this piece is my perspective on Black-Palestinian solidarity

In September 2023 I spoke to Huda Ammori about arms production in Scotland. She ended our interview with these words from Ghassan Kanafani: The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever they are. scottishleftreview.scot/factories-in-s…

The 5-day Climate Camp Scotland starts today. In our latest issue, the organisers define the enemy: fossil fascism: "The far-right sees climate change as a welcome crisis. Climate activists and their allies on the left need to wake up now and face the enemy"⬇️ scottishleftreview.scot/the-age-of-fos…

A full house in Glasgow tonight with Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, veteran of the SA Apartheid movement Andrew Feinstein And STW speakers Jonathon Shafi Sophie Johnson We said Defend the Right to Protest Welfare Not Warfare Free Palestine 🇵🇸!

The whole profit-making machine relies on working people’s wages being poured into it, year on year. What do we get in return? Shafted by inflated ticket prices. Demonised by media and politicians. Repressed by police. Fans are demanding a fairer deal. scottishleftreview.scot/towards-a-fair…

Disgusting. We're taking action to stop the UK government illegally persecuting food delivery drivers.

They'll never stop the bikes. thenational.scot/politics/25336…

The Prime Minister is cooking up a nasty new slogan: stop the bikes. Here's why his hounding of food delivery riders is bound to fail. thenational.scot/politics/25336…

New article by Cailean Gallagher: The Jacobite groundwork of James Steuart’s Political Economy cambridge.org/core/journals/…