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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 14/10/2026

I’m at the Lyceum and I’m in my prime.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 05/10/2026

The Steamie at the Kings Theatre. Drama from a different time.

The stage just before the performance begins. Sinks and stands with a pram to one side.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 03/10/2026

I like to park on this bit of road when I can, but squeezing between the monsters is a regular challenge. (Fortunately I have a skinny car.)

An image of cars parked facing the kerb with the Fourth Bridge in the background.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 02/10/2026

The RSNO are back. Tonight it’s Shostakovich 5.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 31/08/2026

Whenever I hear the expression “wealth creators” I think of Adam Smith.

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.”

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 30/08/2026

The #edbookfest is not quite over. Javier Cercas was both hugely entertaining and fascinating speaking about literature and his non-fiction novels.

Javier Cercas sitting on stage speaking about his book The Anatomy of a Moment.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 29/08/2026

The Edinburgh festivals are drawing to a close. Time left for one of those little fringe dramas.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 26/08/2026

That’s very small for a data centre.

An image of SpaceX's plan for an orbital data centre. The longest dimension of the computer is less than 6 metres.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 25/08/2026

David Hume and Sherlock Holmes with traffic cones.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 23/08/2026

This should not be legal. www.ft.com/content/9399...

The reckoning is fast approaching. Between 1991 and March 2025, the 16 privatised water monopolies raised a staggering £82bn in debt while simultaneously paying out £85bn in dividends to their shareholders, according to research by the FT.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 18/08/2026

Graham Macrae Burnet was at #edbookfest and gave a brilliant insight into the writing of his darkland tale.

The title page of Bennecula by Graeme Macrae Butnet signed for me.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 18/08/2026

Yesterday, at the #edbookfest I caught Cory Doctorow,Jimmy Wales, Val McDermid and Jo Sharp. Excellence all round.

Cover of This Door of the Seas by Val McDermid and Jo Sharp.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 13/08/2026

This morning I’ve come to hear a young man play guitar. The audience has the same grey haired demographic as other shows. Where are the young people?

A stage with a sign above saying
“EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL”
“SEAN SHIBE”
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
and below a single chair with music stand and amplifier w waiting for the maestro.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 11/08/2026

Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra at the Usher Hall at the Edinburgh international festival #eif

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 11/08/2026

One of those things that #eif Edinburgh does really well. A conversation with brainy people.

A stage with three comfy chairs and a sign saying “welcome to the Global Ideas Stage at the King’s Theatre.”

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 08/08/2026

First day of the Edinburgh International Festival. Enjoyed A Trial - After An Enemy of the People this afternoon. Now starting on the fringe with Fourth on the Fringe.

An advert for
A TRIAL - AFTER AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

The audience arriving got for Fourth on the Fringe.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 05/08/2026

How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else www.ft.com/content/4987...

The Treasury can count cash out of the departmental doors, but it then disperses through fragmented institutions - national and local, private and public, arm's-length agencies and charities - with little coordination or accountability, no ability to invest for the long term and scant evaluation.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 02/08/2026

The Kings Theatre reopened yesterday. I’ve already got tickets to see The Steamie.

An image looking towards the stage from the upper circle with the newly restored ceiling painting dominating the view.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 24/07/2026

As a grumpy old man, can I say I think The Herald is my newspaper.

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The Herald

Simon Pegg's The Undeclared War is back - but for heaven's sake, turn the lights on

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 21/07/2026

This FT editorial is lazy. The cliches and second hand wisdom do not make for a coherent argument. People who write in cliches probably think in cliches. By the way, the City of London is not a sector.

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Above all, the incoming government needs to develop a plan for growth that revives animal spirits in the private sector, rather than Burnham's push for a more interventionist state that harks back to the
pre-198os era. This means building on existing efforts to streamline planning rules, simplifying the tax system, and reducing red tape. The incoming prime minister's pledge to deliver "growth in all postcodes" should not distract from efforts to realise the full potential of other key growth sectors such as the City of London, technology and life sciences.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 11/07/2026

I spent today at New Lanark. That Robert Owen was really woke.

An image of Robert Owen, sometimes called “ the father of socialism” with New Lanark in the background.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 08/07/2026

Ferdinand Knopff I lock My Door Upon Myself

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 08/07/2026

The SNP haven’t yet said they won’t stand.

The Herald

Offord says rivals 'feart of Farage' as parties boycott Clacton by-election

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 04/07/2026

Tonight’s entertainment is David Sedaris at the Usher Hall.

Image of the stalls, grand gallery and upper gallery full of anticipation

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 23/06/2026

On this day ten years ago, along with comrades from the Brussels Labour Party, I went door to door getting out the vote in Islington. The next day I held a wake with my book group in my Brussels garden.

An image of a few Brussels Labour types in the company of the Labour leader on the day of the referendum.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 22/06/2026

The causality runs the other way. Austerity led to a lower increases in GDP.

I have calculated the increase in GDP in the 15 years up to 2007 and the 15 years after 2009, that is before and after the financial crisis.*
Time period Increase in GDP
1992-2007 54%
2009-2024 26%

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 20/06/2026

And, in their recent report the Tribune Group of MPs echoed the thought:

An economy should work first and foremost for those who earn their living through their labour rather than through rent-seeking. It should back entrepreneurs and businesses that invest, innovate, and take productive risks over the long term.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 20/06/2026

The idea has caught on. The recent report from the Labour Growth Group of MPs said this:

The Diagnosis
• Britain has become an economy where position too often pays better than action and contribution. We call this the extraction economy: a settlement in which holding scarce assets, protected licences, legal leverage, regulatory position or the power to shape and navigate broken systems can pay better than working, building, investing, caring, competing or taking productive risk.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 20/06/2026

Do you remember when Ed Miliband talked about “predators and producers”? From today’s FT:

One executive said that business "has long memories" and would be nervous given Miliband's
"predators versus producers" economic slogans during his time as Labour leader in 2010-15. "He'd need to demonstrate early that he's changed his thinking or, at least, is far more amenable to the private sector than he once was."

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 17/06/2026

www.bbc.com/news/article... The generals say the money is not enough but they need to explain what happened to all the money they’ve had up to now. josgallacher.substack.com/p/warfare-no...

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 16/06/2026

source: josgallacher.substack.com/p/warfare-no...

A chart showing that the UK has spent more on defence proportionately than other large European countries since 2006.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 16/06/2026

The UK spends more on defence than most of its allies but still we are told it’s not enough. josgallacher.substack.com/p/warfare-no...

Line chart of defence spending as a share of GDP by UK, Spain, Italy, France and Germany from 2006 to 2025.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 16/06/2026

None of this is true. josgallacher.substack.com/p/warfare-no...

The words
WARFARE NOT WELFARE
against a background of lines on a chart.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 12/06/2026

Looking forward to Beethoven’s 9th, the “Choral” symphony.

A empty stage with a dramatic organ and RSNO projected on the side walls.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 09/06/2026

“Space based computing”? Data centres in space generate as much heat as on Earth. In space there is nowhere for the heat to go. If they are solar powered then they need to be in the sun, just like the Sahara in daytime. What happened to all those physics grads who went into finance? #EconSky

FINANCIAL TIMES
SpaceX
SpaceX's $1.78tn IPO asks investors to buy Musk's moonshots
Public markets asked to price in advances in Al, Starlink and space-based computing long before lift-off

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 08/06/2026

If I was on X I’d report him for hate speech.

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