Dr David Mckendrick
@davidmckendrick.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University. Coughing up fire.
I have two spare tickets going for Brian Jackson tomorrow night. Let me know if you are interested.
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I have two spare tickets going for Brian Jackson tomorrow night. Let me know if you are interested.
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The Muslim population of Scotland is about 2% yet "Islamic extremism" makes up 14% of referrals to PREVENT. This suggests a more intensive exposure to PREVENT for the Muslim population, especially if you are a young man.
The Muslim population of Scotland is about 2% yet "Islamic extremism" makes up 14% of referrals to PREVENT. This suggests a more intensive exposure to PREVENT for the Muslim population, especially if you are a young man.
Record number of referrals made to Prevent anti-terrorism scheme
Some 162 reports were made to Prevent, and extreme right-wing concerns made up the largest proportion.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Muslim population of Scotland is about 2% yet "Islamic extremism" makes up 14% of referrals to PREVENT. This suggests a more intensive exposure to PREVENT for the Muslim population, especially if you are a young man.
The Muslim population of Scotland is about 2% yet "Islamic extremism" makes up 14% of referrals to PREVENT. This suggests a more intensive exposure to PREVENT for the Muslim population, especially if you are a young man.
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Public Enemy's 'Fear of a Black Planet' (1990) is included in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, which celebrates culturally, historically & aesthetically significant recordings.
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/PEfoabp
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/PEfoabp
October 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Public Enemy's 'Fear of a Black Planet' (1990) is included in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, which celebrates culturally, historically & aesthetically significant recordings.
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/PEfoabp
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/PEfoabp
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“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”
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October 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”
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Looking forward to this next Monday
Looking forward to this next Monday
How the singer Ganavya infused jazz with spiritual soul
The Tamil Nadu-raised artist explores the devotional in song
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September 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Looking forward to this next Monday
Looking forward to this next Monday
Book chapter!
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Book chapter!
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‘The problem with the interpretation of the verb “support” by the police and courts in Britain today is that the state accepts no limit to its meaning.’
David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support?
With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
‘The problem with the interpretation of the verb “support” by the police and courts in Britain today is that the state accepts no limit to its meaning.’
David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Dr David Mckendrick
Reposted by Dr David Mckendrick
Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
August 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
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A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood.
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism
Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood.
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...
The joy of buying second hand books
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The joy of buying second hand books
My brother and I climbed Ben Nevis with John Hartson a few years ago. It's hard going but the views make it worthwhile. I'd imagine 22y.o is at least four beers deep by now.
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My brother and I climbed Ben Nevis with John Hartson a few years ago. It's hard going but the views make it worthwhile. I'd imagine 22y.o is at least four beers deep by now.
Some more images from Ben Nevis.
August 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Some more images from Ben Nevis.
22y.o did Ben Nevis today.
August 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
22y.o did Ben Nevis today.
‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit
Thanks to its sense of romance and camaraderie, Killeagh went viral on TikTok and spent 18 weeks in the Irish Top 10. The band explain how a studio jape has united Ireland
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August 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Glasgow graffiti
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Glasgow graffiti
Only in Glasgow
August 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Only in Glasgow
"Completely unacceptable" is what you say to a toddler throwing a tantrum not a powerful nation committing genocide.
August 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Completely unacceptable" is what you say to a toddler throwing a tantrum not a powerful nation committing genocide.
Any institution, he writes, involved in the ‘allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments ... ultimately rests on the threat of force’.
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Any institution, he writes, involved in the ‘allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments ... ultimately rests on the threat of force’.