Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lot of good stuff, lots of meh, but weird to see no Scandi drama? The Killing and The Bridge surely up there in sheer influence alone 100
Reposted by LiamEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042174958
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 08/09/20263 degrees of warming may decimate global food production and make South Asia & the Gulf uninhabitable for much of the year but at least Scottish farmers will get a premium rate for their wheat. They might be the only people growing it! 101
Reposted by LiamIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I profiled the writer Neal Ascherson for The New Yorker, and talked with him about his career reporting on so many of the great events of the 20th century. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...newyorker.comReporting the Big WorldNeal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? 0519
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Glasgow to Oban & Fort William coaches are now £4 each way due to the fare cap, with journeys entirely within SPT or HiTrans areas. By train it's £33 to Oban & £38 to Fort William. Big gain for the private bus operators, much of it at the expense of publicly owned Scotrail. Similar journey times too 000
Reposted by LiamCharlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research! 4102111
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"In reality, the Cairngorms National Park still only enjoys around 17% woodland cover... by contrast, up to 40% of the Cairngorms continues to be subjected to muirburn." www.scotlandbigpicture.com/opinion/wild...scotlandbigpicture.comWildfire: beyond the blame game<p>Following his experience fighting the devastating wildfires that have ravaged part of the Cairngorms National Park, rewilding advocate Hugh Webster discusses how we might reconcile nature restorati... 000
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 31/07/2026of all the saunas in Helsinki, managed to go to the one with a subscription to the LRB 000
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 25/07/2026They are kettled on Oswald Street. Not sure how many. When the big crowds of anti-fascists turned bac,k we assumed everyone was being forced to but no... there was about 3 cops (and SWP stewards) and everyone just did what they said 110
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The women and children defenders out in Glasgow Green 😬 796
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 23/07/2026did have to get through Sam Heughan gesticulating to an animatronic Nessie & Nathan Evans singing his twee shite so swings and roundabouts 110
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Kenmure Street references in the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony there 👀 100
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Would not be surprised at all if they make a huge deal about approving Jackdaw gas field (for domestic use) but don't approve Rosebank (oil for global export) and otherwise keep the manifesto promise on new licenses. Which Miliband would probably have done anyway. Different comms, same policy? 000
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Could it be that the breathless headlines that led the Scottish media all weekend about a resurgent North Sea were more just populist vibes/messaging than any real policy shift 🤔🤔🤔 120
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 19/07/2026only one banned by Franco btw. Strangely absent given number of Basque players in squad! 010
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 19/07/2026need more Basque flags in this autonomous community flag parade 101
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 05/07/2026all the Glasgow emos now aged between 30-40 really outing themselves on instagram over the last 24 hrs 010
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Pine marten at Loch of the Lowes, Dunkeld at 5am yesterday 🤩 082
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 26/06/2026how's that Scotland percentage of qualifying looking 🫣 000
Reposted by LiamJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition. 761162297
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 19/06/2026COME ON SCOTLAND 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 000
Reposted by LiamEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 13/06/2026You know BlueSky is too US centric because there’s people happy that the USMNT are winning 27214
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Michael Kelly getting airtime on the BBC this morning to call for all protests to be banned in Glasgow - deary me. This was in fact the course of action taken when he was Lord Provost in early 80s - months long bans across all of Strathclyde. As explored in my book! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 000
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This is good on the far right's embrace of imagery, fake or real.. "People do not live or experience their lives by data, and they do not care... one image of real violence can overwhelm all evidence" 121
Reposted by LiamKieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Some immediate rambling reflections on the demo at Buchanan Steps at Glasgow, where the organised far-right were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the forces of anti-racism and migrant solidarity - 18522
Reposted by LiamAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It'd apparently be a slippery slope for the Electoral Commission to *fuckin do something* about the fake party that yer man in red, one of the sad far right pricks penned in here, tries to pass off as the Greens and as such robs people of their votes 17622
Reposted by LiamHannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow 17471172184
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Mad how much Facebook - which I literally only use for local community groups - just offers up Rupert Lowe posts all the time. And click on one, and you keep getting more! 010
Reposted by LiamDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.strongmessagehere.substack.comWhat’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between 35979387
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 09/05/2026anyone modelled the impact of universal £2 (or indeed, free) buses on intercity trains? Seems mad that an open return Glasgow-Inverness will be £74 on publicly owned rail vs £4 by privately owned coach? Same journey time too. 000
Reposted by LiamHannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026No fewer than FIVE Mr Kerr's have just been elected as MSPs to Scottish Parliament: 🎗 Alex Kerr 🎗 Calum Kerr 🔵 Liam Kerr 🔵 Stephen Kerr 💠 Thomas Kerr There were only two Mr Kerr's at Holyrood in the last Parliamentary session. Now five, are we going to need a plural noun for them? 4153
Reposted by LiamAndrew Adam @andrewadam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Absolutely gutted for the brilliant Mags Hall, who missed out by 0.1%, with IGV taking 0.9%. Meanwhile in Argyll and Bute, *voting staff* mixed up the IGV and SGP *during the count*. Very, very big questions for the Electoral Commission. 813169
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 08/05/2026which council has posted the data? can't see it on Fife website 100
Reposted by LiamBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this. 29363161
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Arise, Thomas Kerr MSP. Remains to be seen if he bothers to show up any more than he did as councillor!! 000
Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · 08/05/2026This implies Paul Sweeney sneaks in in Glasgow & Annie Wells & Sandsesh Gulhane lose their seats 100
Reposted by LiamBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026Glasgow Southside (Glasgow) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 14048 (36.5%, +36.2) SNP: 10947 (28.4%, -31.5) LAB: 7300 (19%, -10.9) RUK: 3019 (7.8%, New) CON: 1383 (3.6%, -3.5) LD: 1143 (3%, +1.2) OTHx2: 659 (1.7%) Valid Turnout: 59.1% Green GAIN from SNP ^AF 216251
Reposted by LiamBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026Banffshire and Buchan Coast (North East Scotland) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): SNP: 10374 (35.2%, -9.7) RUK: 10010 (33.9%, New) CON: 6348 (21.5%, -21.5) LD: 1162 (3.9%, +0.6) LAB: 1049 (3.6%, -3.2) IND: 555 (1.9%) Valid Turnout: 47.9% SNP HOLD - JB 46114
