After Easter, Alternative Weekly’s back mailchi.mp/40179900db2c... Editorial on playing the game of citizenship. Posts on resilience (not Westminster), UNs indigenous forum, Iran’s LEGO-Ganda, working-class greens & much more. Some www.spring.site stories too. Enjoy, share!
It’s nearly a consensus among prog parties in this election that Scotland should copy Ireland’s basic income for artists. The stats are great. But prepping the rest of us for an AI-driven, post-work world might be its biggest result. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/260...
Here’s the lyrics video for our latest @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share!
Lyrics video for our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger (also here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful….Please share and go there! PK x
Here’s the lyrics video for our latest @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share!
The @WorldPressPhoto Awards are always a stunning display of technique & vital news reporting. But historically, “if it bleeds, it leads”—those pics usually drawn from the global South. Are the 2026 awards better, more representative? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/news/2601242...
Here’s the lyrics video for new @HueAndCry single, Make My Day (also here slinky.to/MakeMyDay). Forthcoming album (May 29th) is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). The sun’s breaking thru, & we have a little House to get you out of the house… Enjoy, share! youtu.be/37vNdMYXqO4?...
I’m very much looking forward to speaking as an expert in these hustings tonight (Wednesday, 6.30, details below
I’m very much looking forward to speaking as an expert in these hustings tonight (Wednesday, 6.30, details below
Election hustings on digital society with @patrickharvie.bsky.social, Vonnie Sandlan (Labour), @blench.bsky.social (SNP) with Anna Burnside (chair), @patkane.bsky.social and @lilianedwards.bsky.social
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Must admit to being stirred by @NASA crew on their way to the dark side of the moon. Robots could take their seats, and the moguls & generals aren’t far away. But the urge to fathom the universe has to be answered. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...
Foolish for Sarwar to seek electotal advantage (over NHS app) that has Palantir’s involvement. They’re blood smeared, & a surveillant threat to these islands. And like Musk, they remind us just how weird US power elites currently are. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/259...
Looks a solid win for indy-supporting parties in the May Holyrood elections. But surveys don’t just show 1/5th Scots voting for Reform—a third of those support Indy… What explains this? & what attracts them, beyond Farage’s shtick? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/259...
Very nice for us (@hueandcry) to play for @KirstyWark on her @BBCFrontRow show, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... [starts at 20.37] Promoting our new single Stronger & forthcoming album Everybody (see www.hueandcry.co.uk). Quote: “We’re putting flesh on the bones of the future”!
New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/f35d62c4c742... Editorial on the mildly radical Oscars. Posts on the unconscious & politics; Theroux & the manosphere; cli-fi, AI and the alchemy of improv & music. www.spring.site stories on Glasgow’s future. Share, support, thanx!
Nice when your adopted home gets rated world’s ”3rd best city” by @timeout. But you come to Edinburgh for more than tourist food-&-arts consumerism. It’s also a place of urban contrasts, green wellbeing, and intellectual adventure. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/comment/2593...
Live version of our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger, recorded at Darwen Theatre (studio recording here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). Share! Jump!
It’s not a bad way to celebrate my 62nd birthday—in the early promo for a forthcoming electro album (go to www.hueandcry.co.uk). “He not busy being born is busy dying” is my t-shirt slogan today. Love to Everybody x
What does a Green victory in a Northern-English by-election have to do with Scotland’s energy agenda? It shows the diff btwn constitutional radicalism & (understandable) class revolt. Indy is a bigger prize for ecological politics. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
Major update of my Substack archive of my @ScotNational column over last few months—free to access. Freud, AI, cinema (via Oscars), Trumpism/Farageism, all with an Indy-mindedness about them… Enjoy, share! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-...
Lyrics video for our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger (also here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful….Please share and go there! PK x
Forget Oedipus & being envious of various appendages…Freud’s interest in how our darker emotions manifest themselves is acutely relevant to our age of authoritarianism, frustration and resentment. Neuroscience gives him an update too. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/comment/2587...
Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖
The good people behind the Tom Nairn conference are setting up an events series called “Make Hope Possible” (after Raymond Williams quote). Very much worth supporting - first talk here with @CarolineLucas and @AdamRamsay. Signs of life… makehopepossible.org/tickets/
Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖
My @scotnational column this week investigates whether AI spy-cams—detecting you using your moby while driving—are the thin end of a new surveillance regime. Or maybe a good use of the tech… www.thenational.scot/politics/258... Plus: a side-bar menshie for the new @hueandcry record! Thank u!
Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger
Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger
New Alternative Weekiy out mailchi.mp/2951056b57a9... Editorial on reckoning with AI. Plus: Zurich’s coops solving Europe’s housing crisis; carbon overshoot likely, climate storytelling mobilises youth. From www.spring.site: wind-wealth coming, Glasgow supperclubs here. RT!
The cancellation of a “hyperscale” data centre in Edinburgh is a triumph for campaigners—& a pause button for those of us interested in AI. If used for liberating humans into a post-work world, could we then agree how best to power it? My @ScotNational col thenational.scot/news/25834578.…
