Paul Connell
@paulconnell.bsky.social
Stirling based writer/guitar owner. Here for culture, politics, history, daftness. MD ANT (3rd class)
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Paul Connell
@paulconnell.bsky.social
· Nov 20
This is not a subject on which I have an informed or considered position.
Ya fuckin dancer!
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ya fuckin dancer!
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The difference the first million would make is immeasurable.
The difference a second million would make..?
The difference a second million would make..?
July 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The difference the first million would make is immeasurable.
The difference a second million would make..?
The difference a second million would make..?
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
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🌸☀️ THE SCOTTISH FOUR SEASONS - OUT NOW 🍁❄️
My album ‘The Scottish Four Seasons’ is out today! I’m SO excited that it’s finally out in the world for you to hear! 🥳
Listen / buy here: islaratcliff.bandcamp.com/album/the-sc...
Film by Jack Hinks @jackhinksmusic.bsky.social
My album ‘The Scottish Four Seasons’ is out today! I’m SO excited that it’s finally out in the world for you to hear! 🥳
Listen / buy here: islaratcliff.bandcamp.com/album/the-sc...
Film by Jack Hinks @jackhinksmusic.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🌸☀️ THE SCOTTISH FOUR SEASONS - OUT NOW 🍁❄️
My album ‘The Scottish Four Seasons’ is out today! I’m SO excited that it’s finally out in the world for you to hear! 🥳
Listen / buy here: islaratcliff.bandcamp.com/album/the-sc...
Film by Jack Hinks @jackhinksmusic.bsky.social
My album ‘The Scottish Four Seasons’ is out today! I’m SO excited that it’s finally out in the world for you to hear! 🥳
Listen / buy here: islaratcliff.bandcamp.com/album/the-sc...
Film by Jack Hinks @jackhinksmusic.bsky.social
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No fossil fuel lobbyists in sight. ;)
Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
No fossil fuel lobbyists in sight. ;)
Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Congratulations to @newlands.bsky.social for this deserved recognition.
Tom was on our Writing Chance programme for working-class writers in 2024, and we are very proud for him.
Tom was on our Writing Chance programme for working-class writers in 2024, and we are very proud for him.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congratulations to @newlands.bsky.social for this deserved recognition.
Tom was on our Writing Chance programme for working-class writers in 2024, and we are very proud for him.
Tom was on our Writing Chance programme for working-class writers in 2024, and we are very proud for him.
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As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
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The best, simplest, and most honest take I've seen on this.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The best, simplest, and most honest take I've seen on this.
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On the off chance anyone finds themselves short of an actor last minute for pantos (especially in Glasgow or the Central Belt of Scotland), I am VERY available and very good at learning lines REALLY quickly.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On the off chance anyone finds themselves short of an actor last minute for pantos (especially in Glasgow or the Central Belt of Scotland), I am VERY available and very good at learning lines REALLY quickly.
Can we prompt into reality the very plausible idea that Trump has floated changing the name of the USA Federal capital to Trumpton?
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Can we prompt into reality the very plausible idea that Trump has floated changing the name of the USA Federal capital to Trumpton?
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Three poems by @timturnbull.bsky.social badlilies.uk/tim-turnbull
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Three poems by @timturnbull.bsky.social badlilies.uk/tim-turnbull
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may hire a plane and fly that post over Westminster 24/7 for the next few months
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
may hire a plane and fly that post over Westminster 24/7 for the next few months
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'It was not before time, and took so much pressure to extract' || @danigaravelli.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
'It was not before time, and took so much pressure to extract' || @danigaravelli.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
At what point is Trump going to have a tantrum because the British Royals are making him look bad?
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
At what point is Trump going to have a tantrum because the British Royals are making him look bad?
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Don't think it's possible for @memorialdevice.bsky.social to name themselves as an Alternative National Treasure so I'm hijacking the levers of power and bestowing the title on 'em myself 🤘
#MDANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#MDANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
33 years at the bibliographic coal face. Before that, an actual coal face 🙏
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Don't think it's possible for @memorialdevice.bsky.social to name themselves as an Alternative National Treasure so I'm hijacking the levers of power and bestowing the title on 'em myself 🤘
#MDANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#MDANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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And so, my fellow Glaswegians: ask not what your city can do for you — ask what you can do for your city...
Elsbeth King, you bonny fichter, rest in power!
Pic: Elsbeth and Sister Smudge, the People's Palace cat, and a card carrying member of the GMB.
Elsbeth King, you bonny fichter, rest in power!
Pic: Elsbeth and Sister Smudge, the People's Palace cat, and a card carrying member of the GMB.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
And so, my fellow Glaswegians: ask not what your city can do for you — ask what you can do for your city...
Elsbeth King, you bonny fichter, rest in power!
Pic: Elsbeth and Sister Smudge, the People's Palace cat, and a card carrying member of the GMB.
Elsbeth King, you bonny fichter, rest in power!
Pic: Elsbeth and Sister Smudge, the People's Palace cat, and a card carrying member of the GMB.
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I have new poems in the new Bad Lillies magazine.
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have new poems in the new Bad Lillies magazine.
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Look at the state of this South African, apartheid educated shit-bag... (Elon, not Sunder!)
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Look at the state of this South African, apartheid educated shit-bag... (Elon, not Sunder!)
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It may be 22 years old, but damn, that's still one fine arse.
Classic VIZ comic strip ‘Vidal Baboon' print signed by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey etsy.me/4hus2zU
Classic VIZ comic strip ‘Vidal Baboon' print signed by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey etsy.me/4hus2zU
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It may be 22 years old, but damn, that's still one fine arse.
Classic VIZ comic strip ‘Vidal Baboon' print signed by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey etsy.me/4hus2zU
Classic VIZ comic strip ‘Vidal Baboon' print signed by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey etsy.me/4hus2zU
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Well there are still some amendments to go but it does not look like there will be any substantive change in Part I of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill. A Bill that was not going to achive much is not going to achieve much.
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Well there are still some amendments to go but it does not look like there will be any substantive change in Part I of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill. A Bill that was not going to achive much is not going to achieve much.
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Claim: “In the broad sweep of land reform history, this Bill marks a watershed moment” says minister Mairi Gougeon.
More like a platitudinous trickle: see andywightman.scot/2025/10/stag...
Timid and disappointing stuff from @snp.org and @scottishgreens.org
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
More like a platitudinous trickle: see andywightman.scot/2025/10/stag...
Timid and disappointing stuff from @snp.org and @scottishgreens.org
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
'The Land Reform Bill marks a watershed moment' says minister Mairi Gougeon
Scotland’s new Land Reform Bill could mark a historic shift in how land is owned and managed, says Land Reform minister Mairi Gougeon.
www.heraldscotland.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Claim: “In the broad sweep of land reform history, this Bill marks a watershed moment” says minister Mairi Gougeon.
More like a platitudinous trickle: see andywightman.scot/2025/10/stag...
Timid and disappointing stuff from @snp.org and @scottishgreens.org
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
More like a platitudinous trickle: see andywightman.scot/2025/10/stag...
Timid and disappointing stuff from @snp.org and @scottishgreens.org
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
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Really enjoyed @richycraven.bsky.social's. Ghosts, drinking & snogging an 86 year old in the streets of Dublin. What's not to love. 📚
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Really enjoyed @richycraven.bsky.social's. Ghosts, drinking & snogging an 86 year old in the streets of Dublin. What's not to love. 📚