Norman Dalgleish
@tormod46.bsky.social
Maths, pensions, cycling, Edinburgh 🤘
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We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.
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Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂
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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Having a flashback to when my granny said I was "drifting" in the latter period of my PhD, so I tried to assuage her by saying I'd applied for a job with British Antarctic Survey. "Oh Norman, the last thing you need is to disappear off to Antarctica for 2 years!". Job was (sadly) in Cambridge...
It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Having a flashback to when my granny said I was "drifting" in the latter period of my PhD, so I tried to assuage her by saying I'd applied for a job with British Antarctic Survey. "Oh Norman, the last thing you need is to disappear off to Antarctica for 2 years!". Job was (sadly) in Cambridge...
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It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
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How much do we think Trump's desire to "own" Greenland is a result of the distortions of the Mercator projection?
#MapsMatter
#MapsMatter
January 20, 2026 at 8:35 AM
How much do we think Trump's desire to "own" Greenland is a result of the distortions of the Mercator projection?
#MapsMatter
#MapsMatter
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This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
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Grifting his nasty arse off.
An absent, racist MP worshipping at the MAGA altar from the Brexit rubble, demanding power without accountability. And apparently, being given it.
Every day Farage proves himself unfit for public office. And every day he gets his free pass and laughs his way to the bank.
An absent, racist MP worshipping at the MAGA altar from the Brexit rubble, demanding power without accountability. And apparently, being given it.
Every day Farage proves himself unfit for public office. And every day he gets his free pass and laughs his way to the bank.
New - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations.
He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
January 21, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Grifting his nasty arse off.
An absent, racist MP worshipping at the MAGA altar from the Brexit rubble, demanding power without accountability. And apparently, being given it.
Every day Farage proves himself unfit for public office. And every day he gets his free pass and laughs his way to the bank.
An absent, racist MP worshipping at the MAGA altar from the Brexit rubble, demanding power without accountability. And apparently, being given it.
Every day Farage proves himself unfit for public office. And every day he gets his free pass and laughs his way to the bank.
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Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
The Mental Load Quiz
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Some great stuff in this thread and in @johnharris1969.bsky.social's article.
Wanted to add a chart thread on two points:
1. Online retail matters, but its growth seems to be slowing
2. Retail jobs are in decline, but hospitality / entertainment is growing - that's where high streets need to focus
Wanted to add a chart thread on two points:
1. Online retail matters, but its growth seems to be slowing
2. Retail jobs are in decline, but hospitality / entertainment is growing - that's where high streets need to focus
There is a lot to agree with here - and it comes up over and over again on doorsteps - but its also a huge case of revealed preference.
People want a high street. They just don't want to visit it.
Not sure what can be done aside from huge state subsidy of unviable business.
People want a high street. They just don't want to visit it.
Not sure what can be done aside from huge state subsidy of unviable business.
Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Some great stuff in this thread and in @johnharris1969.bsky.social's article.
Wanted to add a chart thread on two points:
1. Online retail matters, but its growth seems to be slowing
2. Retail jobs are in decline, but hospitality / entertainment is growing - that's where high streets need to focus
Wanted to add a chart thread on two points:
1. Online retail matters, but its growth seems to be slowing
2. Retail jobs are in decline, but hospitality / entertainment is growing - that's where high streets need to focus
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Excellent analysis of yesterday’s shooting including ICE refusing to let a doctor check the victim and the ICE agent who shot leaving the scene of the killing soon afterwards. This killing will live in infamy.
Video analysis clearly contradicts what Noem and Trump claim about the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. By @devonlum.bsky.social @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social Ainara Tiefenthaler Courtney Brooks for @nytimes.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCv...
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Excellent analysis of yesterday’s shooting including ICE refusing to let a doctor check the victim and the ICE agent who shot leaving the scene of the killing soon afterwards. This killing will live in infamy.
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There is no evidence that the officer who shot the woman was injured at ALL, despite Trump’s claim here that he is “recovering in the hospital.”
Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.
Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
There is no evidence that the officer who shot the woman was injured at ALL, despite Trump’s claim here that he is “recovering in the hospital.”
Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.
Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
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My reaction to the U.S. attack in Venezuela (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
My reaction to the U.S. attack in Venezuela (1/2)
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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
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“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
Quite a change out this morning:
Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m, not £1m as planned, in government U-turn to help farming community - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Quite a change out this morning:
Whilst obvious when you think about it, this line was a lightbulb moment for me: "For as long as humans have had urban settlements, in-person retail has subsidised the creation of shared places". So as retail goes online we need to encourage other activities into shared places. Great column.
Every pollster and focus group will tell you that high street decline and broken down buildings are a key part of our political malaise. I'd love to see government pick a fight with derelict property owners.
howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
How do you solve a problem like the high street?
Time for a Troubled Buildings Programme
howtorunacountry.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Whilst obvious when you think about it, this line was a lightbulb moment for me: "For as long as humans have had urban settlements, in-person retail has subsidised the creation of shared places". So as retail goes online we need to encourage other activities into shared places. Great column.