Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 15/09/2026Between 14-27 September, my photo of pigeons in front of a giant croissant will be in the southside of Glasgow as part of a poster campaign. The idea is to replace adverts with “something unusual, out of place, serendipitous, or thought-provoking hidden within the everyday” urbancoincidence.com 040
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 15/09/2026Women in a bakery trying to get catch a pigeon. They had left a trail of crumbs going out of the shop ... but it is a bakery so wasn't much of an inducement. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 12/09/2026Wondering who said “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” while the world burns. crop.photography/p/after-the-... 001
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 13/08/2026Just another day in Glasgow ... a corn snake left outside St Enoch Centre. via www.tiktok.com/@mcbainthepa... 100
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 12/08/2026Lots of people by the Clyde. These were the only ones with eclipse glasses. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11/08/2026Apparently, it is ten years since I appeared on 15 to 1 (alas, Sandi Toksvig era, not William G Stewart). 010
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10/08/2026Good to hear from @francismckee.bsky.social on this. 064
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 09/08/2026Blaes - the spent shale from early fossil fuel extraction - in use on Scotland's football training grounds. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 06/08/2026Between Glasgow and Edinburgh is Niddrie Woman. In 1976, the artist John Latham proposed reframing Scotland’s shale bings as ‘process sculptures’ or land art. www.tate.org.uk/research/tat... 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 03/08/2026While the HMRC website is bad, with Making Tax Digital I now need to choose from 122 different apps to file a quarterly return. Now imagining an article by @jamesmeek.bsky.social or @will-davies.bsky.social about the failures of neoliberalism. 030
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 28/07/2026The doors of culture shall be opened ... and sold off to the highest bidder. So depressing. www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio... 021
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 28/07/2026It has to be Gwendoline Riley (ie I haven’t read the others). 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 28/07/2026James Wolcott in the @lrb.co.uk on the time that John Updike helped put Philip Roth into a psychiatric hospital and break up his marriage with a caustic book review. 101
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 27/07/2026The graphic design of crisp packets. antennebooks.com/products/u-k... 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 21/07/2026Unreliable Tour Guides are back! @momuspda.bsky.social 010
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 20/07/2026Don’t think the Andy Burnham bust will be reproduced like Lenin’s in thr Soviet Union. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 14/07/2026I saw this last night. It was a welcome reminder of what is possible in comedy but I was left with a lot of questions about the Iceman himself. Photos from the Q&A. 021
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 20/06/2026Happened to be in the Mitchell Library and took a look at a cubicle where Andrew O’Hagan may have had his one and only panic attack. 120
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 27/05/2026Martin Amis rather unconvincing as "Martin Amis" in a short dramatisation from Money, with Mel Smith as John Self. 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 17/05/2026London by Patrick Keiller is of the great films of the nineties. Today, I am delighted to present an interview with the great man himself. crop.photography/p/an-intervi... 042
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 15/05/2026Bravo to the picture editor. www.theguardian.com/football/liv... 030
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11/05/2026Weird Scotland in the 70s: a 100-foot concrete sculpture of Lemuel Gulliver made by a former gangster. 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 27/04/2026Thanks to The Bell for my new epithet: Reliably Gregarious. 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 13/04/2026Tibor Fischer (what happened to him?) went all-in on Orbanism and is still beating the drum. 100
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 10/03/2026Some great graphic design for an anti-psychotic medicine. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 24/02/2026Internet scrapbook @are.na commissioned a "revival" of the Arial typeface for their website. The changes are subtle, but beautiful to see. Arial / Areal 081
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 27/01/2026The suggestion algorithm often throws up random people who may or may not have a Substack newsletter (but do have an account for reading). For instance, these popped up today: 100
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 14/01/2026I have been thinking about Sophie Calle again this week and through her discovered Hervé Guibert, a photographer and novelist who was apparently the lover of Michel Foucault and who died of AIDS. The photography is great. 040
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 12/01/2026Saw twin Henry Hoovers being delivered in Argos today. 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 01/12/2025Amazing how Stanley Kubrick anticipated the Reels/TikTok era. 010
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 29/11/2025Glad to see Glaswegians have chosen the @limmy.com version of Nelson Mandela 030
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 27/11/2025I assume @peteralanross.bsky.social and Anthony Seldon have the same graphic designer, otherwise someone is in trouble. 110
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 24/11/2025Saw THIS dog in front of a shop with THIS ornament. 020
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 20/11/2025Gorbals from the air in the 50s, 70s and 90s from Joshua al-Najar’s presentation at the Studies in Photography conference. 040
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 18/11/2025The severity of the men in the launch brochure of the M* motorway, which destroyed large parts of Glasgow city centre. 120
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 13/11/2025Did some anthropology this morning and looked up the cover stars of GQ in Taiwan, UK, and US. 000
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 11/11/2025Martin Amis is very good on why Nabokov's Ada is so bad. 242
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 09/11/2025Inside beautiful, brutalist church, The Pyramid, to see some extraordinarily, self-consciously ugly posters. 110
