Eagerly awaiting Ryan Cecil Jobson's book on the oil 'masquerade of permanence': a century+ of commercial oil production in T&T 'instructs us to regard the petro-state less as a permanent form than a fragile relation between fossil fuels and sovereign authority'

And WHAT a cover

Free Palestine and Free Ukraine is the only morally consistent anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist stance

Last week I went to Germany to present my research at an academic conference. Shocking to find out that our newly elected university rector can't do the same thing. I hope University of Glasgow will speak out about this.

If Glasgow wasn't a city designed around the needs of suburban drivers then these scenes would never have taken place.

As the contract is signed and the writing well underway, I can announce that my book, ‘Electric Wind’, an energy history of modern Britain, will be published with Manchester University Press in Spring 2025 ⚡️🌬️

Grangemouth is the litmus test of Scotland's economic future following the announced closure of the refinery and hundreds of resultant job losses. I'd encourage everyone attending the STUC conference next week to get to this fringe meeting hosted by Keep Grangemouth Working.

Ahead of Unite's upcoming STUC fringe event, we have been receiving solidarity messages from elected officials for our #KeepGrangemouthWorking campaign - Richard Leonard MSP

Germany is facing accelerating deindustrialisation encouraged by energy costs and Chinese competition in electric cars. It should be a bigger factor in how we look at the world economy.