Pat Kane
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Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
January 6, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
January 6, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
Reposted by Pat Kane
Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...
Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...
So the “settled will” of the Scottish people heaves towards independence. Did anybody ever imagine its main opposition would be an far-right grift operation, vehemently anti-immigration & anti-net-zero?
December 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
So the “settled will” of the Scottish people heaves towards independence. Did anybody ever imagine its main opposition would be an far-right grift operation, vehemently anti-immigration & anti-net-zero?
Reposted by Pat Kane
Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...
Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...
My usual 2026 preview of events & anniversaries & culture, for @ScotNational. America on its 250th—so is Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. China’s next 5 year plan commences—but will Grand Theft Auto VI finally be out in Sept? & much, much more www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
December 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My usual 2026 preview of events & anniversaries & culture, for @ScotNational. America on its 250th—so is Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. China’s next 5 year plan commences—but will Grand Theft Auto VI finally be out in Sept? & much, much more www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
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#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...
New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/0ac9c2d03e87... Editorial on new paradigm artivism. Also: what cheap clothes cost the planet; how AI can turn against capitalism; the calming power of the polyvagal nerve—& much more. Details too of our @ccfest event, Jan 18th, 3pm. Come!
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/0ac9c2d03e87... Editorial on new paradigm artivism. Also: what cheap clothes cost the planet; how AI can turn against capitalism; the calming power of the polyvagal nerve—& much more. Details too of our @ccfest event, Jan 18th, 3pm. Come!
#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...
We’re in a podcast moment—immersed in conversations and personalities, with some even wanting to start their own. It’s rich, thick, blethery—and may be a better medium than social media for Indy activism and persuasion. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We’re in a podcast moment—immersed in conversations and personalities, with some even wanting to start their own. It’s rich, thick, blethery—and may be a better medium than social media for Indy activism and persuasion. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
New Alternative Weekly out! Editorial on young men vs. war itself. Also: Integral politics is “deeper, wider, longer”; we need weird stories 4 a warming world; u-lab cultivating planetary coherence—& much more. + spring.site stories. Sign up! mailchi.mp/8df79378f4d0...
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New Alternative Weekly out! Editorial on young men vs. war itself. Also: Integral politics is “deeper, wider, longer”; we need weird stories 4 a warming world; u-lab cultivating planetary coherence—& much more. + spring.site stories. Sign up! mailchi.mp/8df79378f4d0...
The Chihuahua-In-Chief’s attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow, over beautiful & smart bi- or multi-lingual kids, is doomed—not least because we already accept the condition for Gaelic (& Scots). & AI just translates everything…My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Nigel Farage’s language of hate falls flat in face of wonders we could build
Nigel Farage has made a complete plonker of himself in his attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow
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December 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Chihuahua-In-Chief’s attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow, over beautiful & smart bi- or multi-lingual kids, is doomed—not least because we already accept the condition for Gaelic (& Scots). & AI just translates everything…My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
My beloved songbird wean @E_M_KANE’s new single is out now, ‘Hold Your Hand”. Listen, share! open.spotify.com/album/0ctKFL...
Hold Your Hand
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December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My beloved songbird wean @E_M_KANE’s new single is out now, ‘Hold Your Hand”. Listen, share! open.spotify.com/album/0ctKFL...
New Alternative Weekly (@AlterGlobal21) - Editorial on what @ZackPolanski could learn from🇩🇰’s @alternativet_. Hybrid working has a viable future; religion can step up to climate crisis; escape from capitalism—& much more. Spring.site too! mailchi.mp/73701d03fbe8...
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New Alternative Weekly (@AlterGlobal21) - Editorial on what @ZackPolanski could learn from🇩🇰’s @alternativet_. Hybrid working has a viable future; religion can step up to climate crisis; escape from capitalism—& much more. Spring.site too! mailchi.mp/73701d03fbe8...
Here’s 9 open-access posts of my Indy-minded Sat column for @scotnational [https://patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-national] - on “The Hack”, “The Diplomat” & Miss Jean Brodie; on China, & Ireland’s President; on the Picts, the nukes & Faragism. [Subscribe to paper: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/]
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Here’s 9 open-access posts of my Indy-minded Sat column for @scotnational [https://patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-national] - on “The Hack”, “The Diplomat” & Miss Jean Brodie; on China, & Ireland’s President; on the Picts, the nukes & Faragism. [Subscribe to paper: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/]
This new report from @Moreincommon_, on “Disillusioned Men”, explains how Reform can exploit men’s sense that they lack agency & meaning. But that may be exactly why Scots Indy politics is a powerful antidote to right-wing populism. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This new report from @Moreincommon_, on “Disillusioned Men”, explains how Reform can exploit men’s sense that they lack agency & meaning. But that may be exactly why Scots Indy politics is a powerful antidote to right-wing populism. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!
Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration measures will make integration harder—in an era where climate disruption will inevitably bring the South to the North. At least Scotland’s civic nationalism has prepped us for greater diversity. My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration measures will make integration harder—in an era where climate disruption will inevitably bring the South to the North. At least Scotland’s civic nationalism has prepped us for greater diversity. My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!
Struggling with quite strong emotions this morning. That an entity called “Scotland” doesn’t blow it, at the last minute, “you know our sense of timing”, etc… hmm. Deep stirrings. Found this in five minutes from the house 🏴🚀
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Struggling with quite strong emotions this morning. That an entity called “Scotland” doesn’t blow it, at the last minute, “you know our sense of timing”, etc… hmm. Deep stirrings. Found this in five minutes from the house 🏴🚀
An insight into Pictish society reported from Orkney this week - they weren’t just violently obliterated by the Vikings, but adapted to their presence, innovating with their new context. Some lessons for the indy-minded today. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
An insight into Pictish society reported from Orkney this week - they weren’t just violently obliterated by the Vikings, but adapted to their presence, innovating with their new context. Some lessons for the indy-minded today. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
How fucking magnificent is Patti Smith here. “Build the peaceable kingdom”. Yes sister youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA?...
“Peaceable Kingdom” - Patti Smith (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How fucking magnificent is Patti Smith here. “Build the peaceable kingdom”. Yes sister youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA?...
Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...