Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Historian of energy, industry, work and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not always entirely serious.
My book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, is available to download for free from this link! You can also buy a paper copy. Coal Country is the first book length account of the end of coal mining in Scotland. uolpress.co.uk/book/coal-coun…
From Chatterjee, Czajka & Gethin. This is fairly well known I think but I like that it compares Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
Author of Multinational Companies and the Trade Unions, Spokesman Books 1977
Bob Edwards was a Labour politician from Liverpool who played a role in the 1926 general strike, met Trotsky and Stalin, fought in the Spanish Civil War, condemned the racism of Enoch Powell and reportedly spied for the Soviet Union. Quite enough for several lives of note!
This health gradient not only runs across the UK as a whole, but also runs across big organisations such as the UK Civil Service. Sickness levels are inversely related to civil Service grade. The lower the grade, generally the higher the sick rates.
Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.
Here we have a former MP who claims to be a patriot, and presumably also a nationalist, demanding international capital damages our economy and subverts British democracy.
Best scenario for Britain now is a bond strike / full blown financial crisis. That could precipitate a General Election Alternative is 4 more years of these idiots in government importing the third world and ruining what is left of a once civilised society. Bond strike,…
And this is a good place to start any analysis from
Half a million people signing up to a call for a new left-wing party in Britain is actually very significant and without parallel in living memory.
Richard Tice lives in Dubai, a former British protectorate where slavery was allow to continue until the 1960s. It’s an important history which is uncomfortable for both apologists for the British empire and the rulers of the United Arab Emirates.
The slavery scandal the Left DON’T want to speak about Up to 1 million white Europeans made slaves by brutal Islamic rulers who wear also scourge of Africa newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/6406/read…
This is desperate - he’s selectively focused on water usage, meter coverage, and leakage. There are very good reasons why these are higher in Scotland What matters is water quality, environmental performance and price. Scotland performs better on all three
OFFICIAL: The SNP are managing water pollution in Scotland even worse than the Tories did in England👇🏼
Enjoyed passing this commemoration of Helen Crawfurd, the Govan rent strike organiser, suffragette, peace activist and Communist, during my westward walk down the Clyde.
The SNP Scottish government were big supporters of Trump’s golf course so perhaps this award of public money to subsidise its activities is unsurprising. You’d hope it will be met with opposition though given its MPs have profiled themselves as anti Trump 🤷♂️
John Swinney announces £180,000 of public money will help stage a golf tournament at Donald Trump’s Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. The First Minister meets the US President next week.
Canary Wharf is Britain’s biggest betting shop though.
Why are there barely any betting shops in Canary Wharf but rows of them in places like Bethnal Green? It's not by accident. Aim to Permit makes it easy for betting companies to target less wealthy areas. It’s time to end it👇 #HighStreetsNotHighStakes dawnbutler.org.uk/high_streets
This is absolutely what we should be doing.
AI will never generate a better depiction of combined and uneven development.
A man poses in front of the Soyuz rocket monument, Baikonur, Kazakh SSR, 1980s