The Glasgow Effect

Walking Heads - Glasgow Music Tour Check out Walking Heads for...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:15:41 +0000

Walking Heads - Glasgow Music Tour

Check out Walking Heads for excellent apps & downloads of walking tours of Glasgow & Edinburgh… Their latest release features Scottish music maven Jim Gellatly taking us on a journey of Glasgow’s best music venues…

History of 20th Century Art Featuring Glasgow comic Sandy...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:54:17 +0000

History of 20th Century Art

Featuring Glasgow comic Sandy Nelson. NSFW.

Last Friday night (in Glasgow)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:12:23 +0000

Last Friday night (in Glasgow)

Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills Advert (1982)

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:02:31 +0100

Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills Advert (1982)

"Hurricane Katia off the east coast of the US could cause stormy weather to hit Scotland on Monday,..."

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:37:00 +0100

“Hurricane Katia off the east coast of the US could cause stormy weather to hit Scotland on Monday, according to forecasters in Miami.”

- BBC News, 9.9.11

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:00:05 +0100

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:44:38 +0100

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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:43:50 +0100

"In Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, Apple went with the “shake things up” philosophy. It follows an old..."

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:55:16 +0100

“In Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, Apple went with the “shake things up” philosophy. It follows an old Apple pattern of embracing what’s cool and progressive, and ruthlessly jettisoning what it considers antiquated. That’s great if you love stuff that’s cool and progressive, and not so great if you hate people moving your cheese.”

- Upgrading to Lion Means Embracing the iPad, David Pogue, NYT, 20 July 2011

I for one welcome our new jellyfish overlords.

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:19:00 +0100

I for one welcome our new jellyfish overlords.

"Remember when civil servants, teachers, nurses, doctors and lollipop ladies crashed the stock..."

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:22:52 +0100

“Remember when civil servants, teachers, nurses, doctors and lollipop ladies crashed the stock market, wiped out banks, took billions in bonuses and paid no tax? No, me neither.”

Flag of the The National Transitional Council of the Libyan...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:44:00 +0100

Flag of the The National Transitional Council of the Libyan Republic

Spotted in the West End of Glasgow, 26 June 2011

"On an average wage today, half a second of work will pay for an hour of light. In 1950, the average..."

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:15:58 +0100

“On an average wage today, half a second of work will pay for an hour of light. In 1950, the average wage earner worked eight seconds to run a conventional filament lamp; in 1880, 15 seconds of work was needed for a kerosene lamp; and more than six hours of work for an hour of light by tallow candle in the 1800s. In 1750BC, your average ancient Babylonian needed to work more than 50 hours to get an hour of light from a sesame oil lamp. That 43,200-fold improvement…”

- Why rational optimism beats ephemeral happiness, The Australian, 22 June 2011

Janet Albrechtsen summarizes Matt Ridley’s argument. (ht: sully)

Cheeky Seagull Nabs Crisps The most British headline ever? (via...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:18:00 +0100

Cheeky Seagull Nabs Crisps

The most British headline ever? (via buzzfeed)

Pokey LaFarge - La La Blues Fan-feckin’tastic Catch Pokey...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:01:05 +0100

Pokey LaFarge - La La Blues

Fan-feckin’tastic

Catch Pokey @ The Classic Grand, Glasgow, Saturday 26 June 2011

Stop! Actual blue sky spotted… Glasgow June 2011

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:56:00 +0100

Stop! Actual blue sky spotted… Glasgow June 2011

Chloe Philip Live at Edinburgh Festival 2009 (NSFW) Glasgow...

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:53:53 +0100

Chloe Philip Live at Edinburgh Festival 2009 (NSFW)

Glasgow comic Chloe Philip Live at Edinburgh Festival 2009, supporting Phil Kay and Kristen Schaal at Fingers Bar. Follow her @CloPhilip. Catch her at “The Impenetrable Click” at the 13th Note, Glasgow, Monday 27 June 2011 from 8pm.

Alex Salmond announces sectarianism bill delay

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:43:00 +0100

Alex Salmond announces sectarianism bill delay:

“New anti-sectarian legislation has been delayed by six months, the first minister has announced.” BBC News, 23 June 2011

Sometimes politicians do listen - and sometimes even Rangers and Celtic fans can agree… The proposed “anti-sectarian” laws were a dog’s dinner and would have made a laughing stock of the Scottish criminal justice system…

"The reasons for the high Scottish mortality between 1950 and 1980 are unclear, but poverty and..."

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:36:42 +0100

“The reasons for the high Scottish mortality between 1950 and 1980 are unclear, but poverty and deprivation linked to particular industrial employment patterns, poor housing and unhealthy cultural and behavioural patterns seem the more likely explanations. From 1980 onwards the mortality pattern changed and this seems most likely to be attributable to the changed political context, produced by neoliberal political attack, and the consequent hopelessness and community disruption experienced in Scotland and Glasgow.”

- A controversial new report (1.9mb) from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health suggests that policies from the Conservative Government in the 1980s, aimed at deliberately weakening Scotland’s indiustrial heartland, may have led to the “Glasgow Effect”. This may explain, they suggest, why people in the West of Scotland live less long than those of other comparable cities.

On the other hand, maybe the real cause of the “Glasgow Effect” is blaming other people for our woes…

In the 1980s and 90s, thousands of Glaswegians were declared “unfit” for work, to remove them from the unemployment statistics. Surely this must have had a major effect on how our city and inhabitants see ourselves… Officially incapable :(

(ht: Glasgow Guide)

President Obama with Nick Clegg, while Dave Cameron seethes in...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:52:34 +0100

President Obama with Nick Clegg, while Dave Cameron seethes in the corner.

(by Leon Neal via Popbitch)