Adam Ramsay

@AdamRamsay

posh socialist. dyslexic journalist. stone skimmer. editor. Abu Léa. I mostly transcribe the voices in my head. 🍉

He/him, Edinburgh
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Joined May 2008
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    Jan 13

    Yesterday I shared 's article arguing that the Tories' appeal is as priests of the Anglo-British national myth, which stands on two historical pillars: Empire and WW2. In today's broadcast: a war memorial and a Union flag flying over a ship built in 1901.

    Wreaths of poppies at the foot of a war memorial. Small wooden crosses, each bearing a poppy, planted in the grass in the foreground. Subtitles: "A war memorial in the town centre."
    A Union flag, on a flagpole, outstretched in the wind. In the background, the cables and ropes of a sailing ship. Subtitles: "you'll get with the Scottish Conservatives."
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    Jan 12

    BREAKING DETROIT (AP) -- The AP has learned ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder and others have been told they’re being charged in Flint water scandal.

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  3. Jan 11

    Edinburgh should do this with Princes Street:

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    Jan 10

    People in parks don't send epidemics out of control, refusing to offer proper sickpay or pay businesses to close do.

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    Jan 11

    In September 2020, went home to Guernsey to cover an election. But there he found a much murkier story while looking into a secretive taxpayer investment fund.

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    Jan 9

    'We could have someone who will take Trumpism to a competent level – then look out. It's not the next two weeks I'm worried about, it's next 20 years' - on where the US goes next. From our Thursday debate here:

    Trump has finally conceded – but he's not leaving politics.
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  7. Jan 8

    Léa Rosa Ramsay Daigre came with the New Year, and the snow: born at 8:53 on 1/1/21. She is the best thing I’ve ever been involved in making.

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    Jan 7

    COVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin, writes . Overcoming both means confronting their root cause: an economic model that's killing the planet.

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    Jan 6

    Greetings from the “third world”, and fuck right off. Few things are as tiring as American exceptionalism dismissing all the parts about itself it hates as “third-world” and “not-American”. It’s all America. Go stand in it. Keep the third world out of it.

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    Jan 6

    Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.

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    Jan 6

    You can tell today is the first time it actually became real to much of the political & media establishment that things aren’t getting back to normal just because Biden was elected & they willed it by the power of American myth-making.

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    Jan 6

    At least 13 people were arrested today in connection to a violent mob that stormed the Capitol as part of an attempted coup. 138 climate activists were arrested during a peaceful sit in of Nancy Pelosi’s office back in Dec 2018.

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    Jan 6

    As MAGA rioters storm the in DC, here in Atlanta we caught Chester Doles, former KKK leader, on his way to confront GA’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Here’s one Trump supporter speaking to ⁦⁩ and I as the militia marches behind her.

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    Jan 6

    this is the "fa" we were "anti", by the way

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    Jan 4

    What if this government is neither irrational nor incompetent, but simply pursuing the interests that it serves rather than any others, while possessing a very clear sense of exactly what its own electoral base will tolerate and what it won’t?

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    Jan 4

    “national” = “England”

    PM is addressing nation at 8 tonight. Parliament to be recalled Wednesday. Tough national lockdown to be announced
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    Jan 4

    britain might not be twitter but nor is it the right-wing commentariat

    Latest polling from . 79% (+8 on December 22nd) say they support the UK going into another national lockdown; 16% (-6) oppose one. 69% say UK government has done a bad job of handling school reopening.
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    Jan 3

    Good piece by ⁦⁩ They hate government of any kind. The tragedy is they are in charge of ours

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    Jan 2

    The former FM of Scotland (and paid adviser for PwC), not content with enabling a group of a Covid conspiracists, is now pushing this utter nonsense. He's also a (theoretically) Labour member, but is clearly now aligning himself against trade unions. Shameful but not surprising.

    The pressure should be on Ministers in all the governments of the UK to let kids go to school. Those who want to send kids home are dominating the news. Time to mobilise parents and teachers to tell Ministers we need to mobilise all necessary resources to
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    Jan 3

    'What's at stake in Georgia this week is the health and livelihoods of millions of people across the US' Our Editor in Chief , back at the Atlanta hospital where she was born. Follow her & for updates on Georgia's critical Senate vote.

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