Gerry Hassan
@gerryhassan.bsky.social
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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.

Gerry Hassan is a Scottish writer, commentator and academic. He currently holds an Honorary Professor title at Glasgow Caledonian University for Social Change, having previously worked at the University of Dundee and the University of the West of Scotland, where he completed his doctorate. He has also previously worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos where he led their Scotland 2020 and Glasgow 2020 programmes and OpenDemocracy. He has written for the Scottish and UK press, including The Spectator, The Scotsman, The Herald, Holyrood, Sunday Mail, The Guardian and The National (Scotland) on topics and issues related to the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland and Scottish Independence. .. more

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The joy & surprise on the face of Lyndon Dykes after he nicked that third goal is a glorious, glorious sight. #Scotland #WorldCupQualifiers

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Scotland 3 Greece 1. What an impressive & consequential result by #Scotland. Great heart & commitment & a major steal with that late save from Gunn crucial. A feel-good result but we do have to try play football to a higher technical level at every tier. #WorldCupQualifiers

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Leaving a light on for John. Last Photo: John Lennon's bedroom, 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. Tonight. #JohnLennon #Beatles

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Trump & the Trump world continually return to referencing Germany in the 1920s & 1930s & the rise & imposition of Nazi Germany.
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"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Big respect for Joyce and Lesley. But think they are missing the sheer joy, drama, fun, treachery & ridiculous nature of #CelebrityTraitors.

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The spectre and threat of ignoramus American authoritarianism.
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Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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"The Saudis have reportedly paid their headliners up to $1.6 million each with the proviso that they mustn’t mock religion, the royal family or Saudi 'culture' - including, apparently, slavery."

Malin Hay on the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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A Beatle Blether session of myself & Alan McClure with musician Adam Blake: a musical polymath. This double sized session covers how he grew up with the Beatles in the 60s, his appreciation of how they made music, and his love of Beatle bootlegs. 68a9a46c09c9f0-62282495.castos.com/player/21552...
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The first episode of #celebritytraitors was stellar. The BBC have a format that looks like it has it all: characters, plotting, scheming & comedy. Will be interesting to see how the miserablist anti-BBC media portray it & if they try to trash it like they do so much in the UK.
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Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
paleofuture.bsky.social
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick. From David Brown.
#ToryConference #ToryLeadership #CPC25

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One of Kemi Badenoch's main arguments is that the Conservatives failed by not following their principles in 2024 & succeed when they follow their principles. Where does that leave the current logic of chasing & emulating Farage and right-wing populism? #CPC25

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Kemi Badenoch is a poor speaker & leader & a warm-up act for Robert Jenrick. But the problem is deeper: the intellectual bankruptcy of British Conservatism & their refusal to address their systemic failures in office. Hence they are stuck chasing the glib & nasty soundbites of Farage. #CPC25

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Kemi Badenoch has suddenly in panic unveiled a pile of policies - hastily announced with little detail. But the bigger problem is that today's Tory Party has no story to tell of the Britain it aspires to. All a product of 14 years of Tory failure & not confronting those failures. #CPC25

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Kemi Badenoch is putting a lot of emphasis on reversing Labour policies: on private schools, farming & worker rights. Hardly a positive, forward looking agenda. #CPC25

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Kemi Badenoch who says she does not "commit gaffes" mentions & praises her entire Tory frontbench team bar one. Leaving out Priti Patel, Shadow Foreign Secretary, who does not look very happy. #CPC25

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The Conservative Party Conference TV pictures are carefully controlled to hide how empty & small it is. The images look controlled & given to media by the Tory Party. If so #bbcnews, #ITVNews, #cNews & #SKYNews should make clear who is controlling & selecting the images. #CPC25

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Bless the poor old Express. It actually thinks Zack Polanski's @greenparty.org.uk are "the UK's answer to Putin's Communists". Ignoring the pro-Putin Farage because it suits them.

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The ridiculous and indefensible overreach of British authoritarianism. This is the responsibility of successive Labour Home Secretaries & the Home Office. It should not be allowed to happen & once it has the law should be revised or reversed.
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🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest
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Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
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🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest
aaliyahxx.bsky.social
Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Reform's Richard Tice & his Dubai partner Isabel Oakeshott are now backing the UEA gulf state as a model for the UK. The UEA is an authoritarian autocracy with no democracy, human rights or free speech. The authoritarian right-wing future for the UK?

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The Tory Party Conference & their policy that the UK should leave the ECHR. From Matt. #CPC25

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When are the media going to talk abt the Reform bandwagon stalling? Farage is not that popular & should be miles ahead now to have a chance of winning a GE.

REF: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
Via @yougov.co.uk
Poll: 5-6/10
+/- w 28-29/9.

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Kemi Badenoch has a disaster interview with Gary Gibbon on #c4news. She cannot distance herself from Robert Jenrick's racist remarks on Birmingham; cannot criticise Farage; and cannot accept her stance is now "Vote Conservative to undo what the Conservatives did in office."

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The stupidity of British authoritarianism.

Imagine the despotic state of the UK if such protesters as the Suffragettes, Chartists, anti-slavery campaigners, LGBT community and equal pay advocates had restricted themselves to making their point on one occasion.
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Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Robert Jenrick is a poor speaker, poor at theatrics & happy to embrace the politics of the gutter, bigotry & playing to the racist gallery.

Here he is getting out a judge's wig, attacking the judiciary & saying he has uncovered judges with "links to open border charities." #CPC25

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Will any senior Tories at Westminster condemn Robert Jenrick's remarks which are unapologetic ethno-nationalism? So far the only Tory of note who has broken ranks & condemned them has been Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24. #CPC25

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp tells a near-empty Tory conference hall that the UK will use "the freedoms we will gain from leaving ECHR".

Where have we heard this little Britain/narrow English nationalist message before? #CPC25