My latest for Heckle:

They put this in the break room instead of giving us hazard pay

There’s power in a union when it’s built from the ground up. Up the tenants, Living Rent forever 💚

Mahmoud Khalil was thrown in prison for 3 months for protesting Gaza and the day ABC pulled Kimmel off the air (for two eps!) a judge upheld Khalil’s deportation. Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned for writing an op-ed on Gaza. I feel like I’m going insane

Happy Birthday Shostakovich. Tea for Two - Fantastic! You won the bet.

In my first piece for Tribune, I write in defence of the noble art of shoplifting.

It is not enough to condemn deprivation without also defending those it has forced into acts of desperation. Read Sean Bell on the rise of shoplifting. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/britai…

Obviously, this article was filed before it happened, so my thanks to Keir Starmer for proving my point with his latest characteristically stupid intervention.

Left-wing defences of shoplifting are not new, but have often framed the practice as an act of anti-capitalist resistance rather than a necessity; such anarchist arguments can, in the modern context, appear rather quaint. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/britai…

Rest in Power, Assata Shakur. The American state brutally oppressed Assata and her Black Panther Party Comrades. The Cubans welcomed her and other Black Revolutionaries with asylum, and their solidarity and loyalty allowed Assata to live out her days in Havana.

We vow to honor her legacy by recognizing our duty to fight for our freedom, to win, to love and protect one another because we have nothing to lose but our chains.

Copy of Assata an Autobiography for anyone that wants to read it tinyurl.com/mewsrt9j

Kaleb Horton was the kind of writer whose talent made you ashamed to call yourself one too. To interact with him, however occasionally or distantly, was to know the sweetest, most fundamentally decent guy. All my love to his friends and loved ones. kalebhorton.ghost.io/big-fish-not-t…

this book would’ve ruled

"He couldn’t make a living at writing, not in a world where being a genius makes you unemployable." There's no way of lessening the tragedy of Kaleb Horton's death, but Alex Press has written the tribute he deserves.

In the west, music journalists have to give albums a perfect 100 otherwise they are killed by teenagers

It really shouldn't require the best political journalist in Scotland to point out something as basic as 'Salmond lost', but since it apparently does, thank God for Jamie Maxwell