Neil Scott
@neilscott.substack.com
Designer, writer, and photographer.
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Anyone in the market for a Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew commemorative spoon?
February 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Anyone in the market for a Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew commemorative spoon?
Presumably they didn't sell it, given the gallery just went into administration. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/04/s...
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Presumably they didn't sell it, given the gallery just went into administration. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/04/s...
Whatever you think about the future of cities, this post about the expansion of Victorian cities is absolutely thrilling.
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Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century
Could ours do the same?
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February 4, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Whatever you think about the future of cities, this post about the expansion of Victorian cities is absolutely thrilling.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-victo...
www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-victo...
The idea of “reforming the House of Lords” has become a memetic shorthand for Labour’s uselessness over time. The HoL now seems like a sort of Democracy Black Hole where the chumocracy consigns their cronies for eternity.'
The deep problems of British public life: its entrenched hierarchy, clandestine politics, and centralisation of power, all conducted under a semi-feudal structure, seem to be bubbling to the surface and coming to the boil.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:35 AM
The idea of “reforming the House of Lords” has become a memetic shorthand for Labour’s uselessness over time. The HoL now seems like a sort of Democracy Black Hole where the chumocracy consigns their cronies for eternity.'
For Jo Spence, it wasn’t enough to be reconciled with the world; the point was to change it.
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Photo ... therapy?
Mindfulness, Jo Spence, and the use of photography help solve mental health issues.
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January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
For Jo Spence, it wasn’t enough to be reconciled with the world; the point was to change it.
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Is tall poppy syndrome still a thing in Scotland? Can you call yourself a flâneur?
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The Flâneur
The realities of being a man-about-town
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January 24, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Is tall poppy syndrome still a thing in Scotland? Can you call yourself a flâneur?
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Sophie Calle is known for making elusive, seductive artworks about her life. But it can be difficult to know what happened when. This week, I played detective and attempted to create a definitive timeline:
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Playing Detective with Sophie Calle
An attempt at a definitive timeline of the elusive artist
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January 23, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Sophie Calle is known for making elusive, seductive artworks about her life. But it can be difficult to know what happened when. This week, I played detective and attempted to create a definitive timeline:
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It's deeply weird that Scotrail and Glasgow Subway both still use X for real time travel info.
There isn't even a public feed for X! At least, not officially.
However, it is possible to see what is happening via Xcancel:
xcancel.com/ScotRail
There isn't even a public feed for X! At least, not officially.
However, it is possible to see what is happening via Xcancel:
xcancel.com/ScotRail
Currently sat on a Scotrail train that isn't moving 15 minutes after it was meant to depart and I can't check if they are giving any info online because they exclusively use the Nazi child abuse site for real time customer information. This is not a sustainable state of affairs.
January 20, 2026 at 8:57 AM
It's deeply weird that Scotrail and Glasgow Subway both still use X for real time travel info.
There isn't even a public feed for X! At least, not officially.
However, it is possible to see what is happening via Xcancel:
xcancel.com/ScotRail
There isn't even a public feed for X! At least, not officially.
However, it is possible to see what is happening via Xcancel:
xcancel.com/ScotRail
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Our briefing is out now 🗞️
🚨 Omnishambles at the CCA: why did its chair just resign after only a month in charge?
🚌 McGill's buses millionaires take a crash course in politics
🚢 Is Greenock really rough, or has Google just got it in for Inverclyde?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-resignat...
🚨 Omnishambles at the CCA: why did its chair just resign after only a month in charge?
🚌 McGill's buses millionaires take a crash course in politics
🚢 Is Greenock really rough, or has Google just got it in for Inverclyde?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-resignat...
CCA chair resigns and the Easdales enter politics
Plus, ‘is Greenock rough?’ and other important questions
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Our briefing is out now 🗞️
🚨 Omnishambles at the CCA: why did its chair just resign after only a month in charge?
🚌 McGill's buses millionaires take a crash course in politics
🚢 Is Greenock really rough, or has Google just got it in for Inverclyde?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-resignat...
🚨 Omnishambles at the CCA: why did its chair just resign after only a month in charge?
🚌 McGill's buses millionaires take a crash course in politics
🚢 Is Greenock really rough, or has Google just got it in for Inverclyde?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-resignat...
I have been thinking about Sophie Calle again this week and through her discovered Hervé Guibert, a photographer and novelist who was apparently the lover of Michel Foucault and who died of AIDS. The photography is great.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
I have been thinking about Sophie Calle again this week and through her discovered Hervé Guibert, a photographer and novelist who was apparently the lover of Michel Foucault and who died of AIDS. The photography is great.
Saw twin Henry Hoovers being delivered in Argos today.
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Saw twin Henry Hoovers being delivered in Argos today.
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New #zines coming soon! - #Community #protest from the Southside of #Glasgow. ‘Save Our Pool, 2001’ from #Govanhill, and ‘No M77 Carhenge, 1994/95’ from Pollok Park. See the new covers and info here. www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/glasgow-base...
Glasgow, Scotland-based documentary, editorial and portrait photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
Two new zines of black and white documentary photography of Glasgow, Scotland, from the photography archive of Scotland-based photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert. The zines both cover famous, historica...
www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
New #zines coming soon! - #Community #protest from the Southside of #Glasgow. ‘Save Our Pool, 2001’ from #Govanhill, and ‘No M77 Carhenge, 1994/95’ from Pollok Park. See the new covers and info here. www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/glasgow-base...
“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”
David Hume
David Hume
🔴 EXC: Concerns raised after "disturbing occult-style paraphernalia" found at the David Hume mausoleum in Edinburgh:
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January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”
David Hume
David Hume
Thoughts inspired from meeting someone who thinks the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays and from watching Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day.
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The Biographical Fallacy
An anti-Oxfordian approach to Peter Hujar’s Day. Plus The Week in Photos.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Thoughts inspired from meeting someone who thinks the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays and from watching Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day.
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It's a Camilla Grudova week
1. Camilla Grudova interview in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ca...
2. Camilla Grudova short story on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
1. Camilla Grudova interview in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ca...
2. Camilla Grudova short story on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 9, 2026 at 7:47 AM
It's a Camilla Grudova week
1. Camilla Grudova interview in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ca...
2. Camilla Grudova short story on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
1. Camilla Grudova interview in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ca...
2. Camilla Grudova short story on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Save the Date: Gray Day 2026 – Reimagined Glasgow.
Join us 25 Feb at Òran Mór, Glasgow (7–10pm) as we mark 45 years of Lanark with talks, art & celebration with partners @canongate.co.uk
Tickets on sale now (link in bio).
Join us 25 Feb at Òran Mór, Glasgow (7–10pm) as we mark 45 years of Lanark with talks, art & celebration with partners @canongate.co.uk
Tickets on sale now (link in bio).
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Save the Date: Gray Day 2026 – Reimagined Glasgow.
Join us 25 Feb at Òran Mór, Glasgow (7–10pm) as we mark 45 years of Lanark with talks, art & celebration with partners @canongate.co.uk
Tickets on sale now (link in bio).
Join us 25 Feb at Òran Mór, Glasgow (7–10pm) as we mark 45 years of Lanark with talks, art & celebration with partners @canongate.co.uk
Tickets on sale now (link in bio).
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Scotland, Caracas and the Trump Corollary
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Scotland, Caracas and the Trump Corollary
It has the same feeling as reporting the loss of the Titanic with the apocryphal headline attributed to the Aberdeen Press and Journal: “North-east man lost at sea”, to report on events in Caracas in ...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Scotland, Caracas and the Trump Corollary
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reading thread, 2026 edition
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
reading thread, 2026 edition
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My whimsical list of 2025 cultural highlights. neilscott.substack.com/p/cultural-h...
Cultural Highlights 2025
The most memorable exhibitions and events I saw in the past year
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December 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My whimsical list of 2025 cultural highlights. neilscott.substack.com/p/cultural-h...
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Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...