A great read this.

Scotland’s Unjust Transition: The View from Grangemouth 10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs.pdf85 KBdownload-circle The closure of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in 2025 represents a test of Scotland’s ‘just transition’. While oil and gas jobs are ...

The Scottish Parliament election is being fought in the shadow of devastating job losses at Grangemouth refinery, the Mossmorran petrochemicals complex and offshore. Broken energy promises and policy failure is recruiting voters to Reform. I've written for Renewal on Scotland's unjust transition.

I agree but part of the point there is the cumulative nature of more than a decade of job losses.

Glad to be published in such good company! Looking forward to reading your article.

Scotland’s Unjust Transition: The View from Grangemouth 10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs.pdf85 KBdownload-circle The closure of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in 2025 represents a test of Scotland’s ‘just transition’. While oil and gas jobs are ...

The Scottish Parliament election is being fought in the shadow of devastating job losses at Grangemouth refinery, the Mossmorran petrochemicals complex and offshore. Broken energy promises and policy failure is recruiting voters to Reform. I've written for Renewal on Scotland's unjust transition.

New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social

Scotland’s Unjust Transition: The View from Grangemouth 10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs10 Renewal 34.1_Gibbs.pdf85 KBdownload-circle The closure of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in 2025 represents a test of Scotland’s ‘just transition’. While oil and gas jobs are ...

FREE TO READ: @ewangibbs.bsky.social reports from Scotland's 'just transition'. Oil and gas jobs are disappearing, and renewables have yet to deliver on jobs and investment. He cautions that failure risks fuelling far-right resentment.
renewal.org.uk/articles/sco...

My morning 7k was more impressive

Back running and back to work 🏃‍♂️

Gorbals rainbow 🌈

Bit of magical realism we could enjoy

The videos also imply that wind turbines are sine sort of dangerous threat. There’s perhaps an irony in using LEGO to do this given the Danish origins of wind energy and the fact many Scottish wind farms use turbines manufactured by Vestas, a leading Danish firm.

North Sea petro nationalist animated LEGO videos have entered the Scottish Parliament elections. The Reform candidate for East Kilbride is also using the videos to imply wind turbines are some kind of dangerous threat.

‘Where things are built matters’ and who owns our essential manufacturing industries does too.

An important intervention from @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social on why Alexander Dennis can’t be allowed to be a repeat of Grangemouth.

This is the approach we need from Scottish and UK government.

Think this has particularly strong application to claims about allegedly unprecedented levels of political polarisation or societal divisions. These simply don’t stand up to even cursory scrutiny.

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

PBS News Hour | UN refugee chief warns war in Lebanon a 'catastrophe' | Season 2026 Israel’s campaign in Lebanon a 'humanitarian catastrophe,' UN refugee chief warns

More than one million Lebanese are displaced. Israel has invaded the country's south again and is demanding people vacate more land. The UN top refugee official is there on a mission to survey the crisis, warns of a catastrophe.
www.pbs.org/video/wider-...

With @ewangibbs.bsky.social on Auchengeich

Ha ha, that’s really not how I saw this.

I’d broadly say YP and the SSP are clearly attempts at an anti-capitalist socialist party whereas the Greens belong to the ecological/green tradition. Both strands have likenesses across Europe.

No! Where is that?

Climbing old volcanic hills just 12 miles north of Glasgow in a day of sun, wind and rain, brought to mind Hugh MacDiarmid’s Gairmscoile and its celebration of ‘Scotland’s hidden poo’ers’.

Cairn Spotting up the Campsie Fells

Private finance won’t fix Scotland’s nature crisis – only public investment can Private investors aren’t funding new woodlands – we need public investment to step in instead.

NEW: Private finance won’t fix Scotland’s nature crisis - only public investment can.

As featured exclusively in today's @theguardian.com, private investment isn’t going to deliver the nature restoration Scotland needs.

Read our new guest blog by Tom Gegg: www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/459-pr...

It certainly wasn’t intended as a value judgement. I spent a long time in the Labour Party after all. We could do with more research on the Scottish (and English and Welsh) Greens imo and thinking about similarities and differences with other European Green parties.

The Greens are definitely picking up the vote which I imagine might be interested in a socialist party, and the activists too.

I think the Greens are best thought of as a separate ideological ‘family’ of parties but clearly one that has some ‘red’ overlap.

Week off 😎

The Your Party Scotland implosion is a reminder we’re now coming up for 19 years since a socialist party had representation at Holyrood and 23 years since a socialist party last had MSPs elected. Given how low the bar is - c.5% of the vote in Glasgow - it’s a grim picture!

A Sunday spring cat 🐈‍⬛

The war in the Persian Gulf and the jet fuel shortage it created exposed the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery last year as a dangerous act of folly. I’ve written for the Times explaining why refining capacity is a crucial national infrastructure central to our energy security.

Some of the Universitario squad nevertheless taking heart from their materialist perspective being vindicated.