More than 6,000 Scots have now died from drugs since the SNP Government declared the issue a public health emergency in September 2019.

Keeping summer going for as long as we can

The Scottish Labour Party supporters still backing Starmer after defining themselves as enemies of flag waving nationalism must be having a hard time just now.

Well this turned out to be a load of nonsense from the Glasgow-based Old Firm-centric Scottish football media. Embarrassing.

I was part of the Corbyn ‘entryism’ . I joined Labour in 2010 thinking the party being in opposition would be an opportunity for it to shift leftwards. Five years later, hundreds of thousands of existing party members agreed and they were joined by an influx of new supporters.

I have always been openly critical of the UK government and the SNP government in Holyrood for not doing enough to save the Grangemouth refinery. Why won't SNP ministers produce evidence of what they apparently did to save the Grangemouth refinery? heraldscotland.com/news/25432781.…

Alleyways and avenues

🇲🇽☕️ Mexico’s President Sheinbaum presents the new “Coffee of Wellbeing” sourced from farmers in Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz, and Guerrero, to be sold in state-owned stores.

I’ve written for LRB on the closure of Scotland’s last oil refinery at Grangemouth by Petroineos and the unjust transition in British manufacturing. A committed workforce was betrayed by multinational employers as governments failed to meet their promises. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

This is 🔥 One of the main things produced by the raft of 'green' industrial plans is broken promises - that's the political legacy of the transition economy. Along with the climate squeeze on living standards, broken promises form the ground for all politics today

There's a reason 'Or Something Worse' starts in Port Talbot, outside the factory but also on the kitchen tables. Its the starkest image of a future that is already here x.com/_nic_beuret_/s…

Unjust transition. Conflation of the need to change and the pain of poorly managed change is likely to become a heady political cocktail.

This is very good. A lot to take away from it, but the piece that resonates especially is on oil companies luring Scottish workers and their families to the Middle East - evidently true for anyone of a certain age and who lives in an area with a strong oil and gas workforce.

Brilliant account Ewan Gibbs of the UK’s inability to deliver a just transition for workers & communities in high carbon sectors such as oil and steel: it is in this vacuum that anti-climate forces can foment their arguments that slow a green & prosperous future Just Transition Commission