Stephen Greenhorn
@sgreenhorn.bsky.social
Word Monkey
Edinburgh
Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/
Edinburgh
Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/
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Cracking interview with Alan Cumming on all the excitement of his inaugural season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
‘I’m not just putting on nice plays’: I spoke to Hollywood star Alan Cumming about his plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
‘I’m not just putting on nice plays’: Hollywood star Alan Cumming’s plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands
What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars – and a King Lear played by ‘the woman who changed my life’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Cracking interview with Alan Cumming on all the excitement of his inaugural season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
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This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis
‘Play for Today’ one-off films were a seminal moment in television in the Seventies and Eighties, writes Hannah J Davies. Decades later, Channel 5 is bringing them back, and aiming to diversify small-...
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Remembering the man who brought us ‘Treasure Island’ (1883), ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886) and ‘Kidnapped’ (1893) - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - born in Edinburgh 175yrs ago today.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Remembering the man who brought us ‘Treasure Island’ (1883), ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886) and ‘Kidnapped’ (1893) - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - born in Edinburgh 175yrs ago today.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Directed by Tony Richardson, it changed my whole life to this day.
The impact it had on British cinema was immeasurable, and one that led me to La nouvelle vague and a whole new world of cinema.
youtu.be/Kq0uxZGWr7E
Directed by Tony Richardson, it changed my whole life to this day.
The impact it had on British cinema was immeasurable, and one that led me to La nouvelle vague and a whole new world of cinema.
youtu.be/Kq0uxZGWr7E
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Directed by Tony Richardson, it changed my whole life to this day.
The impact it had on British cinema was immeasurable, and one that led me to La nouvelle vague and a whole new world of cinema.
youtu.be/Kq0uxZGWr7E
Directed by Tony Richardson, it changed my whole life to this day.
The impact it had on British cinema was immeasurable, and one that led me to La nouvelle vague and a whole new world of cinema.
youtu.be/Kq0uxZGWr7E
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Bee Asha, the spoken word artist and musician, has announced What A Beautiful Place To Fall Over, a celebration of Leith that sheds light on the complexity of gentrification.
Bee Asha tackles gentrification in her latest Leith-focused project | The List
Titled What A Beautiful Place To Fall Over, the project will include a six-track album made alongside other Leith musicians
list.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Bee Asha, the spoken word artist and musician, has announced What A Beautiful Place To Fall Over, a celebration of Leith that sheds light on the complexity of gentrification.
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We're two days away from opening! 🙌
Here's a wee guide to our most sold shows over the month of November.
When are you coming to see the show?
📆 14 Nov - 21 Dec
📌 Auditorium, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
🎫on our website
Here's a wee guide to our most sold shows over the month of November.
When are you coming to see the show?
📆 14 Nov - 21 Dec
📌 Auditorium, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
🎫on our website
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We're two days away from opening! 🙌
Here's a wee guide to our most sold shows over the month of November.
When are you coming to see the show?
📆 14 Nov - 21 Dec
📌 Auditorium, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
🎫on our website
Here's a wee guide to our most sold shows over the month of November.
When are you coming to see the show?
📆 14 Nov - 21 Dec
📌 Auditorium, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
🎫on our website
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I feel like this summarises the state of our politics pretty well
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I feel like this summarises the state of our politics pretty well
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The right’s thing for so many years was that the left were a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics. But today’s right are a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The right’s thing for so many years was that the left were a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics. But today’s right are a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics.
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PLEASE SHARE:
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
PLEASE SHARE:
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.
Please join me from
7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November
to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.
We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
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If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
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I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
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The pro-Trumpian British right-wing media. Actively siding with a US President who tried to overturn a US Presidential election. And where stating the truth for these Trumpian apologists is some sort of bias & crime.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The pro-Trumpian British right-wing media. Actively siding with a US President who tried to overturn a US Presidential election. And where stating the truth for these Trumpian apologists is some sort of bias & crime.
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This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.
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The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
The BBC is in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide. Now it has capitulated to Trump
www.owenjones.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
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A genuine piece of writing advice: if you have writer's block, set the goal of doing a single thing today - just creating the document file is enough. Save that sucker. There, you did something today. The boulder has started to move. Tomorrow, do something else. A word or two. Momentum will come.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A genuine piece of writing advice: if you have writer's block, set the goal of doing a single thing today - just creating the document file is enough. Save that sucker. There, you did something today. The boulder has started to move. Tomorrow, do something else. A word or two. Momentum will come.
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
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Note: it's not that you can't make money on solar. Solar is cheaper energy than oil. It's that the rate of profit on it is lower because you can't monopolise the sun.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Note: it's not that you can't make money on solar. Solar is cheaper energy than oil. It's that the rate of profit on it is lower because you can't monopolise the sun.
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Another fantastic article from @graceblakeley.substack.com - while America is leading the way, the current Labour government seems set on following in its wake, gambling our economy on the potential of AI without any thought to the potential damage.
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age
The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Another fantastic article from @graceblakeley.substack.com - while America is leading the way, the current Labour government seems set on following in its wake, gambling our economy on the potential of AI without any thought to the potential damage.
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Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?
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This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
🔴 Breaking I Davie faced mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
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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.