Then - international affairs lecturer & director. Now - back home, books, heritage, shinty, hills, wine.
Lochaber - Highland - Scotland
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GOOSEBUMPS! 🤯
@HibernianFC's players are serenaded by their supporters with a spine-tingling rendition of "Sunshine on Leith" after their Edinburgh Derby triumph 🙌
#PremierSportsCup
Differences in quality between north and south shinty exposed glaringly today at An Aird. Well done to my goalscoring nephew, currently nursing a broken finger.
FT- North 10 (Rocco MacMillan 13,26 Freddie Morrison 15, Innes MacDonald 23, Joep Mommertz 45, 48, 56 David Fraser 46, 63, 68) South 1 (Blair McCullough 40) - Fraser MacPhee U14 Memorial Trophy #Shinty
John MacDonald retweeted
“There are political repressions taking place. Now they’ve reached us.” Journalist and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov tells me how the Russian authorities have “strangled” Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper. Novaya Gazeta is closing down. #ReadingRussia
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We need to recruit 1,000 new paying Bell members by 15 November. We’ve got two weeks left.
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Excellent read from Edward Luce. No paywall -
"For Trump there are only two kinds of election; ones that he wins and ones that are stolen." My weekend FT cover essay on what to expect from Trump's final two years. as.ft.com/r/0640c95d-029e-40…
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The new documentary American Doctor follows three American physicians, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, as they treat wounded Palestinians in Gaza's severely damaged hospitals before returning to the United States to challenge Washington's support for the genocide in Gaza. Watermelon Pictures has made the film available for free for the next 7 days. Link below ⬇️
John MacDonald retweeted
Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com…
Don't look away ⤵️⤵️⤵️
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
John MacDonald retweeted
"They killed us." Novaya Gazeta, the venerable investigative Russian newspaper whose reporting staff included the slain Anna Politkovskaya and at least five others who were killed or died under suspicious circumstances, announced it was shutting down.
rferl.org/a/russia-newspaper…
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“There are different ways to commit murder. They chose to strangle us,” journalist Dmitry Muratov tells me, after Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta is forced to close. Our report from Moscow. Producer @BBCBenTavener
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Aarron sits down with @RoddyGCairns to have a look at league structure for 2027!
open.spotify.com/episode/6Qd…
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It's not the first one they've lost, see here: bylines.scot/environment/the…
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"We have been annihilated." Wonder what the Putin apologists make of this.
Novaya Gazeta is closing after being placed on a state enemies list economist.com/europe/2026/10…
John MacDonald retweeted
This human disaster is also an environmental disaster.
London discovering that a ceilidh is good for the soul.
theguardian.com/music/2026/o…
