Writes a Substack - Letter from Scotland
Writes a Substack - Letter from Scotland
@jackiekemp.bsky.social
Why is Scotland’s history so often presented to us from an English perspective?
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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While Norway and Denmark are using the managed decline of their oil
and gas reserves to boost European resilience and fund a just transition, Scotland’s situation is very different - thanks to a careless UK gov. open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...
Would the story of North Sea oil have been different in an independent Scotland?
The UK is pushing the sector into accelerated collapse - instead of a just transition
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December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
While Norway and Denmark are using the managed decline of their oil
and gas reserves to boost European resilience and fund a just transition, Scotland’s situation is very different - thanks to a careless UK gov. open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...
Would the story of North Sea oil have been different in an independent Scotland?
The UK is pushing the sector into accelerated collapse - instead of a just transition
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I made this wee reel about how ashamed I felt when visiting the Parthenon
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The State Department said it informed countries involved in the Gaza peace agreement that an attack by Hamas is being planned against Palestinians and that it would be a violation of the ceasefire deal
US Warns of ‘Imminent’ Attack by Hamas Against Palestinians
The US State Department said it informed countries involved in the Gaza peace agreement that an attack by Hamas is being planned against Palestinians and that it would be a violation of the ceasefire deal.
bloom.bg
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Let's hear it for @theferret.scot says @jackiekemp.bsky.social for doggedly exposing radioactive leaks from Trident into a popular Scottish loch
sceptical.scot/2025/09/ferr...
Ferreting out radioactive leaks from Trident - Sceptical Scot
"Loch Long is a 20-mile-long seawater loch that flows into the Firth of Clyde. People fish there; they swim and paddleboard. They had a right to know about the leak - and we all had a right to know ab...
sceptical.scot
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Fun storm fact. When a storm is incoming, Germans say 'Mach die Schotten dicht' to mean 'Batten down the hatches'.

But it could also mean 'get the Scots drunk'.

Schotten - Scots or bulkheads
dicht - to close tight or to be drunk
#StormEowyn
January 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Nicola Sturgeon, Alistair Darling, Fred Goodwin, Stalin, Mountbatten, Jimmy Reid, all glimpsed at the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe
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Big Beasts at the Edinburgh Festivals
Some shows about history within living memory
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August 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Anna B does London overground in style open.substack.com/pub/thehairy...
London overground
Thanks to smartphones and satellites, I no longer rely on modular maps and airless tube trains
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July 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
July 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The UK gov has retreated from zonal pricing with a Londoncentric sneer jackie125.substack.com/p/uk-turns-its… UK Turns Its Back on Energy Reform — and the Highlands Will Pay
https://jackie125.substack.com/p/uk-turns-its…
July 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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July 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM