gerryhassan.bsky.social
Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
👤 Joined on 17 noviembre 2024
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@gerryhassan.bsky.socialThe latest reported annual salary for Jeremy Vine is in the £310,000–£314,999 range for the 2024–25 BBC pay period Now let me think VFM Jeremy Vine v a Consultant Doctor? And how long does it take to qualify? What qualifications? See the problem?
Show PostA Reform MP and his journalist wife were temporarily inconvenienced on their honeymoon flight to New York. Naturally, this requires a national conversation about the appalling suffering of the privileged classes. Fetch the world’s tiniest violin. 🎻
Show PostThe problem with Justin Webb’s position at the BBC is not just his flagrant bias, or his writing for the Mail, or his audible prejudices, it’s that all those things make him embarrassingly bad at analysing politics. “Left = firebrand = too woke = trouble for Dems” is about his level
Show PostPrompted by Kapka Kassabova’s Borrowed Land, I wrote about the politics of renewable energy and the older industrial history of the Scottish Highlands.
Show PostWould the @royalsociety.org like to explain why they still maintain Fellowship with a man who deliberately reduced Ukraine’s defensive capabilities, leading to multiple civilian deaths and casualties?
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