Iain Macwhirter
@iainmacwhirter
Columnist,Times. Spectator. Author: "Disunited Kingdom". BBC TV/ radio presenter for over 25 years. Former Rector Edinburgh University.
Tired of Twitter. Fed up with Facebook. Try my Substack columns. No proprietors, no surveillance, no bull. iainmacwhirter.substack.com
Worth reading. Edinburgh University’s decolonisation drive is stuck in 2020 - UnHerd @iainmacwhirter unherd.com/newsroom/edinb…
Donald Trump must love being Emperor of the 18th Hole | ✍️ Iain Macwhirter thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
'Edinburgh University now seems intent on cancelling itself on grounds of historic hate crimes and harbouring Enlightenment philosophers.' Elite institutions never learn, writes @iainmacwhirter 👇 buff.ly/OlBpldd
The Sandie Peggie Employment Tribunal isn't over yet and claims of victory may be premature. Free to Read. open.substack.com/pub/iainmacwhi… .
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
"Permanent visibility can hinder our ability to think, reflect and concentrate". From Cordelia Fine's excellent review of @tiffanyjenkins' Strangers and Intimates, in @TheTLS
From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/f… @tiffanyjenkins So who killed privacy? It's the central question of Tiffany Jenkins' provocative new history of private life, Strangers and Intimates. The answer, according to Jenkins, is that we…
In 2000, China accounted for 6% of global manufacturing. In 2030, China is projected to account for 45% of global manufacturing. This kind of shift is unprecedented in the modern world economy.
Attraper vingt et un
“You are free to say anything that isn’t illegal” is simultaneously tautological and extremely ominous.
Desertion, exhaustion, inflation, corruption - if half of this is true Ukraine is in deep trouble. Running out of men to fight, the clock is ticking. Only EU boots on the ground can stop it. spectator.co.uk/article/ukrain…
Great to see a fantastic review of @tiffanyjenkins 's fascinating book STRANGERS AND INTIMATES in the TLS. STRANGERS AND INTIMATES is out now from @picadorbooks the-tls.com/politics-socie…
Poor rural family standing at attention for RFK’s funeral train, June 8, 1968
Fantastic review of Strangers and Intimates.
A fascinating new book lays out how thinking about privacy has evolved. “Strangers and Intimates” is one of those rare works that changes how you see the world econ.st/4ngZrkn
Bit of a drag.
Just stumbled on this incredible railing by Libor Hurda in Prague. What do you think?
Yes, we have no banarias...
In Spanish, the word for "non-binary" is "no-binario" or "no-binaria" depending on the person's gender.