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This is great on McDonagh & the diasporic experience. Being considered a Scotchie in Ireland & plastic Paddy in Scotland I’ve long considered it a form of permanent exile. An unrootedness which leads to struggles with ideas of belonging, home & even self irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…

“Leave a mark that can't erase, neither space nor time. So when the director yells cut we'll be fine.” Please share last ever video from inside Brad Welsh’s legendary Holyrood Boxing Gym.

Wrote this piece before Shane MacGowan’s funeral. A homage to Shane & The Pogues, about exile & Edinburgh, about being lost & finding yourself. Honourable mentions for Connolly, Behan & Genet with quiet nods to Odysseus & Faust. The Irish Voice is out now.

Reminder: Helping Hands gave 1000 new bikes to kids in Edinburgh housing schemes. Without 1p of state or corporate funding. SNP/Labour Council wouldn’t even provide space to store them or help with our bikeability project. And they are too arrogant to ask how we did it.

A delegate shouts about the massacre of children in Gaza and he laughs at them. Ridicules them. The delegates then cheer. They’re cheering genocide. Truly chilling. They have no hinterland. No soul. Just empty (free) suits driven by narcissism & greed.

Shamefully Labour (with Tory/LibDems support) voted to keep The People’s Story closed. Thanks to cllrs who voted to reopen. Vote was 6-5. #Edinburgh Council are not fit for purpose. We deserve better. We need change. We’re only getting started.

Edinburgh: from “hotbed of genius” to tartan Disneyland. A soulless, hollowed out shell of a place. A city destroyed by a political class corrupt & incompetent in equal measure. In future it will be a case study in how not to manage social change.

The council are literally keeping elderly and disabled people prisoners in their own homes. No deliveroo operative will climb 10 flights of stairs. Thank the heavens for my friend Jim Slaven and the vibrant community in Dumbiedykes. Council - do your job and serve your people.

“Residents then engaged with Edinburgh Council. Residents have concluded the Council’s top down, funding led model has failed our community.” We, in every scheme, are being failed by Edinburgh Council. Enough is enough. We are backing Jim. Until change happens. You should too.

Big #Edinburgh charity scandal they tried to cover up. But couldn’t. They were all warned. From Paul Lawrence, to his leadership team, to the politicians. They’re funding failure and incompetence and worse. We need transparency & accountability. We need change. 🔗in bio.

“We’re here for a tiny, short time. You’re worried about what people say? Don’t. They’re gonna talk anyway. Be you.” Word.

Israel has bombed Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran. Yet these political & moral degenerates cannot even name it. The absence, like the absence of a credible or coherent international response, doesn’t obscure, but highlights, the rot at the core of our societies.

The right’s false promises & posturing on class are laid bare on foreign policy. For Farage & Tommy Ten-Names it’s not Britain first. But Israel first. They’re not rebels but the system’s lackeys. Imperialism is first a domestic system. It exploits & dominates workers here.