HeyJaredMike Small
Writer on Scottish and international politics, climate change. Interested in deep citizenship, generalism and collaboration. Cautiously pessimistic.
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That Fascist Feeling (opens the original)
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Part of the tactics of the far-right is to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Some people refer to this as ‘Stochastic terrorism’ - an analytic description used in scholarship and counterterrorism to describe a mass-mediated process in which hostile public rhetoric, repeated and amplified across communication platforms, elevates the atmosphere of generalised fear. This is both the breeding ground of fascism and the medium for its messages.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
Is Edinburgh University a Scottish University at all? (opens the original)
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The announcement of cuts at Edinburgh University supports the argument that some of our fundamental institutions are not our own.Here are some of the courses being axed:This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fake-inpu
Gym Etiquette, Ed Sheeran and the Zone of Interest (opens the original)
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David Aaronovitch was invited onto BBC radio to discuss his Substack. As you are.He was initially there to explore an incident at his gym where “one women, probably in her 50s, was wearing a T-shirt expressing her opposition to “genocide” in Palestine.”This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabind
The Post-Cardiff Unionist Meltdown (opens the original)
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The monumental backlash against the leaders of the Celtic Nations gathering in Cardiff to sign a Memorandum of Understanding which asserted the right to self-determination continues to gather pace.Writing plaintively in The Spectator Stephen Daisley writes [Is it too late to save the United Kingdom?]: “The slow demise of the United Kingdom is suddenly gaining speed.”This Substack is reader-suppor
Burnham's Brigadoon (opens the original)
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So it turns out that a Scottish democracy, or certainly steps towards it, will arrive not by way of a Constitutional Assembly, a popular process, or a specific trigger point, but just ‘a feeling’. A second referendum on Scottish independence will arrive, Brigadoon-like, out of the Scotch Mist.<sour
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