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Jamie Maxwell
@jamiedmaxwell
Writer, Journalist || Bylines: Foreign Policy, Jacobin, Le Monde Diplomatique + elsewhere
GlasgowJoined August 2010
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@jamiedmaxwell
It's May Day, which means it's Jacobin subscription day, which means you should subscribe to Jacobin, which is extremely good!
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Jacobin
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This week, we're offering solidarity digital subs for $1, and print ones for $10. Subscribers get four beautiful new issues a year and access to our entire back catalog. jacobin.com/subscribe/?cod
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In the second of two podcasts this month, Glasgow-based journalist
@jamiedmaxwell
discusses Scotland’s change of leader after Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise decision to stand down after eight years as Scotland’s first minister.
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After Sturgeon, Humza Yousaf: what next for Scotland?
In the second of two podcasts this month, Glasgow-based journalist Jamie Maxwell discusses Scotland’s change of leader after Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise decis...
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Devolder Ocelot
@ElonMusgraves
solid, level-headed (and non-apocalyptic) situational assessment from
@jamiedmaxwell
. though unlike the piece, I'd argue to an extent yousaf has had to pivot left (e.g. repudiating the growth commission, policy convergence with greens) to draw a line between himself and forbes
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Jacobin
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Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as SNP leader has exposed deep-rooted problems with the party’s centralized, secretive organizational culture. The contest to succeed her could result in a rightward shift with profound consequences for Scottish politics. jacobin.com/2023/03/nicola
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"The membership controversy might have been survivable if it hadn’t arrived in the middle of a leadership race marked by rising volumes of bitterness, paranoia, and farce." Wrote for
@jacobin
on the messy end of the Sturgeon regime.
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Without Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish National Party Is Facing an Identity Crisis
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as SNP leader has exposed deep-rooted problems with the party’s centralized, secretive organizational culture. The contest to succeed her could result in a marked...
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
‘Sturgeonism spoke to Scotland’s desire for the illusion of change — for the least socially disruptive model of progress possible.’ ⁦
@jamiedmaxwell
⁩ has written the first comprehensive assessment of Sturgeon’s departure and what she represented.
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The Nicola Sturgeon Era in Scottish Politics Already Feels Fleeting and Ephemeral
Nicola Sturgeon tried to channel the desire for change in Scotland with a political style that was resolutely anti-populist and technocratic. The contradictions of this approach caught up with...
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Jacobin
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Nicola Sturgeon tried to channel the desire for change in Scotland with a political style that was anti-populist and technocratic. The contradictions of this approach caught up with Sturgeon, and she leaves office without a transformative legacy.
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The Nicola Sturgeon Era in Scottish Politics Already Feels Fleeting and Ephemeral
Nicola Sturgeon tried to channel the desire for change in Scotland with a political style that was resolutely anti-populist and technocratic. The contradictions of this approach caught up with...
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Jamie Maxwell
@jamiedmaxwell
Tom Nairn intuited, anatomised, contextualised, and surveyed the sheer weirdness of this state and these islands better and faster than anyone else. A singular writer and thinker. A sincerely decent man, too. It was an honour to get to know him a little bit in his final years. X
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Jamie Maxwell
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Excuse me, but Scottish self-loathing predates wokeness by about five centuries.
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The National
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'Scotland is the most woke country in the world - it hates itself!' Far-right podcaster Gavin McInnes fumes over Scotland's progressive social policy in an interview with Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Looks like we're upsetting all the right people😊
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Jamie Maxwell
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Enjoyed talking apocalyptically to
@LMdiplo
about the end of Truss, the end of the Tories, and the end of Britain.
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Le Monde diplomatique in English
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In this month’s podcast, journalist Jamie Maxwell discusses recent upheavals in the Conservative Party and puts them in the wider context of British politics, including the question mark over the survival of the union itself. mondediplo.com/2022/10/02brit
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Jacobin
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British writer Ian McEwan wanted to deliver a literary manifesto for liberal centrism with his new book "Lessons." But the result is an aimless, meandering novel that reveals his creative exhaustion and bewilderment at the state of the world.
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Ian McEwan’s Centrist Agitprop Novel Is a Creative Failure
British writer Ian McEwan wanted to deliver a literary manifesto for liberal centrism with his new book Lessons. But the result is an aimless, meandering novel that reveals his creative exhaustion...
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