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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OUT NOW! We have a new bonus podcast with our Deputy Director Lena Swedlow, @ewangibbs.bsky.social and @rosiehampton.bsky.social on the upcoming decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw. Out now wherever you get your podcasts - and we hope you love our fancy new podcast graphics!

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The North Sea has become a dominant issue in Scottish and British politics. I had a chat about the long running debate over l oil and gas licensing on the It’s Bloody Complicated podcast with my good friend @rosiehampton.bsky.social. You can listen here 🔽

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Red Herring or Red Line?: The Politics of the Rosebank and Jackdaw Oil and Gas Field Decisions

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The BBC’s Ratcliffe interview is shocking. He’s allowed to spout unchallenged nonsense about politics, economics and energy. Ratcliffe is worth listening to because he represents an emboldened and retrograde section of Britain’s ruling class 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Couldn’t be more excited for this!

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've been waiting to bring you the amazing Emma Warren in conversation with @rosiehampton.bsky.social for Up the Youth Club and it's finally time. The book is a searching look at the rise and fall of the youth club, highlighting the seismic impact they have had on UK culture. 23 Sept at 7pm!

Mairi holds three copies of Up the Youth Club and peeks out from round the side of them.

An orange banner which reads "A bookshop evening with Emma Warren" followed by the copy of Up the Youth Club and various images from the book cover. At the bottom, there is an image of Emma and text which reads "7pm, Wednesday 23rd September."

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...

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Queer Glasgow x Radical Print

Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nature for people not billionaires. We stand in solidarity with the Friends of the Earth Albania/Environmental Centre for Development and Networking (EDEN), and the movement of people in Albania against development plans in Vjosë-Narta. Read the statement: friendsoftheearth.eu/.../statemen...

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Statement: Support for Albania in opposing destructive development projects in Vjosë-Narta - Friends of the Earth Europe

The Vjosë-Narta area in Albania is at risk of extinction due to development plans for massive luxury resorts in the heart of its biodiversity

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/05/2026

The report's conclusion is stark: this would leave "ports with no trade, suppliers with no customers, and skilled workers with no employers." Public support for net zero is holding. We need a just transition for workers and communities.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/05/2026

The damage wouldn't be spread evenly. Scotland would absorb 13% of short-term job losses despite being 8% of the population. Already fragile economies like North East England, East Anglia, the West Midlands, Inverness and the North East highlands would be hit the hardest.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/05/2026

By scrapping net zero and renewable energy support, the UK could forgo up to 1.4 million jobs by 2040 across the renewables, home insulation, public transport, EV manufacturing sectors, and more. This isn't saving money. It's burning the future economy to score political points.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/05/2026

🧵Our new report with @foescot.bsky.social and Transition Economics has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Here's what we found 👇

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wrote for @scotnational.bsky.social about BP’s grotesque war profits and the politicians who have long been defending their right to make those billions The answer is clear - publicly owned and manufactured renewable energy www.thenational.scot/news/2606671...

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Politicians want oil companies’ profits

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent oil prices skyrocketing, to the benefit only of oil and gas company bosses and…

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scotland’s climate future is at a decisive point 🔥 And we need to keep fighting for climate solutions that will improve people’s lives. That's why we’re taking part in @biggive.bsky.social #EarthRaise - where for one week only your donation to us will be doubled! Chip in: act.foe.scot/donate

Text: Double your donation for one week only! Photo of people at a climate march, holding a banner which says 'A better world is possible'. Logos of Earth Raise and the Big Give, and Friends of the Earth Scotland.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Really pleased to be part of this issue, chatting about tenant organising & environmental campaigning

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A new special issue of Soundings explores rising authoritarian political culture in Britain. I edited it with my colleagues, Dave Featherstone and Jenny Morrison. Read our introduction on the Starmer government's embrace of repressive crackdowns 🔽

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Soundings: Volume 2025 Issue 89 (2025) - Lawrence Wishart

Soundings: A journal of politics and culture - Issue contents for Volume 2025 Issue 89 (2025)

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Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde. An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain. For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking forward to this! Hope to see people there :)

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just when we all needed it - we've programmed a week of events all about building a more just world through empathy, community action and social justice. Next up is @hazelsheffield.bsky.social and @rosiehampton.bsky.social discussing Frontierlands on Thursday at 7pm.

A banner with the image of a house against a green backdrop. The banner reads "Is there an alternative to capitalism in the UK? Hazel Sheffield, Thursday 19th March, 7pm"

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Great to be back on the Skotia discussing the prospects of an SNP majority gov in May w/ Reform in second; the CCC report on Scotland’s draft climate change plan; and what lessons the Gorton & Denton result has for Scotland Listen below!

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neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's finally out, thanks to @minorcomps. Amongst many great contributions, I have a chapter in here entitled "Differentiated Spatialities of Subsumption and the Social Factory as Phantom Thesis." Eds., Anthony Iles & Mattin. Buy if you can to support radical independent publishing. 👇

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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Depressing news This piece by Hailey Maxwell on the People's Palace is great - "The managed decline and privatisation of cultural and civic heritage is entangled with the wilful disintegration of communal ways of living more generally." www.thedrouth.org/on-peoples-p...

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On Peoples’ Palaces by Hailey Maxwell – The Drouth

The Drouth Online is Scotland’s weekly web journal for literature, art, politics and informed critical commentary.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thursday, 19 March - Frontierlands with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social & @rosiehampton.bsky.social Communities on Britain’s margins are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land offering lessons to bring into our own! lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Absolutely *cannot* wait for this wicked pairing and the discussion it promises, join us!

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In March I’ll be hosting a discussion with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social about her new book Frontierlands at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh Join us for what I’m sure will be a great discussion! lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Lots of new radical history tours open for booking over the next few months including Queer Glasgow, radical West End and Migrants Made Glasgow. Free tickets always available if cost is a barrier, just drop us a line. See you in the streets! radicalglasgowtours.com

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Radical Glasgow Tours

Walking through the radical histories and present-day struggles of the city of Glasgow

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ash Regan is trying to push a dangerous bill through parliament in a few weeks time that would introduce the Nordic Model to Scotland. For sex workers’ safety and rights, it CANNOT go through. Takes 2 mins to use this tool to tell your MSPs just that scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

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Scotland for Decrim

Demand full decriminalisation - write to your MSP now

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Tonight! I’ll be talking about my article ‘Where is the left?’ & all things radical spaces and political organising 7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!

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Sylvia @silbheuig.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I really enjoyed reading this. The loss of left-wing physical spaces is certainly felt. I was speaking to someone at Sheffield Transformed, who mentioned that the area once had two other radical spaces, 'all gone now.' It's also about what these spaces mean in building inclusive, radical cultures.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @lynsayhodges.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A brilliant article about the disappearance of left-wing spaces, how the online left isn’t representative of left-wing organising in general (despite Ash Sarkar’s claims), and how we can build a movement based on solidarity and the nurturing of diversity. I liked this quote a lot 👇

A screenshot of the linked article with a piece of text highlight. This reads: “Defaulting to a series of anecdotes about online posting, rather than to embodied political organizing, is deeply unserious. It should be cause for concern when someone is using social media, rather than regular in-person encounters, to analyze and offer critiques of left-wing organizing.”

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I wrote ‘Where is the Left?’ for the New Internationalist and have been really heartened by how much it’s resonated with people organising across a wide range of groups and in such a vast array of different places You can read the article here newint.org/protest/2025...

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Where is the left?

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Great list of resources and engagement in this thread, thank you v much to Shannon for resharing (and a reminder to myself I should come on here more!!)

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New Internationalist @newint.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)

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Where is the left?

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Really looking forward to chatting about my latest NI article, ‘Where is the Left?’ at the December News Club next Wednesday!

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛 Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.

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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow. Please share.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just Transition Conditionalities - Building a Toolkit for Scotland can be downloaded here. It outlines proposals for how transition policy should be structured to protect workers, create jobs and benefit communities and the public. www.justtransition.scot/publication/...

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Just Transition Conditionalities – Building a Toolkit for Scotland – Just Transition Commission

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh. We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.

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Kate Wilson @katekatewilson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

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Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow

By Kate Wilson, Published on 10/01/25

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

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Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project

This article explores how Scottish workers narrated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their life and work, by analysing 55 fifty-five submissions to the Workers' Stories Project. Between 2020 and...

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

lovely to get my print copy of the latest @newint.bsky.social, which features my article ‘where is the left?’ for their long read section it discusses left wing spaces, whilst offering a critique of recent accounts (such as minority rule) that suggest the left has got ‘worse’ at solidarity

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Almost all of those surveyed want more public investment in domestic wind manufacturing, as well as in UK ports so they are fit for energy projects." Must-read op-ed from @rosiehampton.bsky.social reflecting on their recent survey of UK oil & gas workers. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...

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'North Sea workers urge government to do more on creating good renewable energy jobs'

Rosie Hampton is oil and gas campaigns manager at Friends of the Earth Scotland responds to a new study of over 400 North Sea oil and gas workers…

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

*New research article* Gabe Eckhouse and I for Geoforum on how since the 1970s North Sea oil and then fracking have been imagined as British and American national energy sources through imperial oil booms reinforcing old oil powers after the rise of anti-colonial nationalism. Read it here⬇️

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Two Late Imperial Oil Booms: A comparison of the constrained national energy imaginaries of the UK’s North Sea and US hydraulic fracturing

The UK and the US dominated global oil production for nearly a century. Imperial power was central to their control over the extraction and flow of oi…

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Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Absolutely loved this. So rare to get this level of analysis that's specific to Scotland and its dysfunctional unhappy status quo, its industrial strategy caught between inaction and apathy. A great listen.

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Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more? After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Enjoyed chatting to environmental campaigner and trade unionist @rosiehampton.bsky.social about Scotland's unjust transition, the multinationals who dominate our economy and how we build an energy system that works for workers and citizens. You can listen here ⬇️

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Really enjoyed this conversation about (un)just transitions, public ownership & where do we go from here You can listen at the link below!

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