Edinburgh funster and bore, follower of the Hearts and Vice-Commodore (kid you not!) of the esteemed FCYC. Supporter of Andy Burnham now.
Granton, Edinburgh
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Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
Too many rumours currently - from whether Netanyahu is about to act, to Trump or the Iranians. But with Israel’s election next week, tensions are very high
Exclusive: The US State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure of some personnel and family members from US embassies across the Gulf region, three US officials said reut.rs/4i9CnSH
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
No one spoke against this extreme motion at @theSNP conference which was passed by acclaim.
It would criminalise parents, therapists, medical staff, and teachers. It assuredly would run counter to human rights.
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Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
By “unearthed”, you mean “is on the first line of his Wikipedia page”.
Celebrity Traitors star James Blunt’s real name unearthed thesun.ie/tv/17760900/james-…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
James Blunt's real name is James Hillier Blount, a fact publicly known for over 20 years and listed on his Wikipedia page.
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Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
Edinburgh Airport last night. Passengers from 3 flights bussed to, and then herded through a narrow entrance to climb a staircase, to then descend another in order to join a massive queue at passport control!
It's a dreadful experience, which feels almost third world, and a terrible welcome to our capital City.
And who owns Edinburgh Airport? The highly profitable Vinci Airports (French) and Blackrock!
The great arguments for privatisation included modernising and responding better to customer demands, but what we've ended up with in Edinburgh is fat cat profit over national pride.
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
1/ Offshore wind is a big opportunity for Scotland. But has the SNP been honest about the size of that opportunity?
When the outcome of the ScotWind leasing round was announced in January, two numbers were given particular prominence.
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
John Swinney won't be able to pop into his local for a pint any more.
Brown & Blacks in Scone is run by an entrepreneur called Katie Long.
Her story sums up everything that's wrong with business rates.
Katie put around £140,000 of her own money into the business. She's done everything she can to make it work.
Her energy costs have risen from £25,000 a year to over £100,000. But the real stinger is that her business rates have gone up from under £20,000 to over £52,000.
How is anyone supposed to make a living with that?
Now think about the knock-on effect: potential job losses at a time of high unemployment, which means less tax coming in and a greater burden on the state.
The First Minister has appointed Jonathan Murphy to look at rates. So here's my offer to Jonathan: let's spend a day together visiting the businesses whose livelihoods are threatened by the current system.
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
Putting terrorists and aggressors on the same moral plane as their victims and targets is repugnant. At best it whitewashes horrible crimes, at worst it feeds the culture of murder and martyrdom that Hamas espouses.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
'There's still fight in the dog': Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op boss vows to fight on after entering administration trib.al/GuNUF1L
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
Debate about the impact of planned changes to the state pension triple lock is of course necessary, but it's hard to conclude that Scotland's First Minister did not mislead the Scottish Parliament yesterday by claiming "we are now going to lose our pensions"
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
Over 7,000 people have died since the Scottish Government declared a drugs a public health emergency.
Scots are 15 times more likely to die from drugs if they are poor than if they are rich.
We can't go on like this.
Chris on the money here.
Cap’n Jimbo retweeted
I’ve written this week’s New Statesman cover feature which looks under the hood of the intergenerational inequality that’s been building since 2008…what does it mean for young adults? Birth rates? The social contract? The triple lock?
If you’re not worried about this issue, you should be
newstatesman.com/cover-story…
GENERATION SCREWED by @Victoria_Spratt
If the 1980s and 1990s spawned Yuppies – young, “upwardly mobile” professionals with university degrees, well-paid jobs and disposable incomes – the 2010s and 2020s belong to the “Dumpys”: the Downwardly and Unhappily Mobile Professional Young. The Dumpys have some of the trappings of a middle-class existence – a degree, a professional job – but lack its foundations: a secure home of their own, financial freedom.
For the first time since industrialisation, huge numbers of young adults are no better off than their parents were at the same age. The comfortable, educated, professional middle class is collapsing, and with it the aspirations of many who wish to join it. Class war is not over, but the battle lines are being redrawn. Far from being a Blairite meritocracy, Britain is now an inheritocracy: a place where a young person’s life chances are defined not by their hard work, but by their access to family wealth.
Today, there is no single, widely agreed definition of what it means to be “middle class” or “working class”. Where once it may have been as simple as those who owned property, it is now more complicated – not least because Right to Buy meant council tenants could enter the property-owning classes. A person’s profession is no longer a clear guide to their class either, because thousands of people with apparently middle-class jobs and the historically middle-class credential of a degree rent and live from one payday to the next.
Intergenerational inequity is a problem for most Western economies, but it is particularly acute in Britain due to expensive housing, stagnant graduate wages, a fraying social safety net and extortionate childcare costs. Young adults everywhere are angrier than older people, and Britain is no exception. This, perhaps, is due to the gap between aspiration and reality: the chasm between what they were told life could be and what it is.
Cover art by Kris Andrew Small
