Allan Gillies
@allangillies.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow | Political Economy of Illicit Commodities in Latin America
As the US bombs boats and murders people in the Caribbean supposedly in the name of the war on drugs, Trump pardons a former Honduran president convicted for drug trafficking. Astounding.
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
As the US bombs boats and murders people in the Caribbean supposedly in the name of the war on drugs, Trump pardons a former Honduran president convicted for drug trafficking. Astounding.
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What an amazing way to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process: fascinating conversation with @andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social on his new memoir and a wonderful performance from Magda Angelica, followed by discussion with an engaged and diverse audience. Thanks to all involved!
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
What an amazing way to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process: fascinating conversation with @andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social on his new memoir and a wonderful performance from Magda Angelica, followed by discussion with an engaged and diverse audience. Thanks to all involved!
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Far-right misinformation - tolerated, encouraged or even monetised by some social media outlets - has now arrived at Scottish school gates.
www.thetimes.com/article/bf7c...
www.thetimes.com/article/bf7c...
Mothers trying to learn English face demonstration outside school
The protest follows a campaign by YouTube influencers against schools offering migrant parents lessons to improve their language skills
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Far-right misinformation - tolerated, encouraged or even monetised by some social media outlets - has now arrived at Scottish school gates.
www.thetimes.com/article/bf7c...
www.thetimes.com/article/bf7c...
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Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
Foreign student fees already subsidise UK students. Now they’re being asked to pay for maintenance grants. Not only will it harm the (struggling) sector, it also shows the spinelessness of this gov: taxing an easy target, while throwing a few morsels to the right wing press.
A 6% levy on international student fees was proposed in the Immigration White Paper. The impact is about £600 million, though very unevenly spread across institutions.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Foreign student fees already subsidise UK students. Now they’re being asked to pay for maintenance grants. Not only will it harm the (struggling) sector, it also shows the spinelessness of this gov: taxing an easy target, while throwing a few morsels to the right wing press.
Sad news about Mani. Great nights watching him play with Primal Scream and then eventually with The Stone Roses. Met him briefly up at Connect one year as well. What a guy!
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Sad news about Mani. Great nights watching him play with Primal Scream and then eventually with The Stone Roses. Met him briefly up at Connect one year as well. What a guy!
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Join us on 25 Nov at 5pm (42 Bute Gdns) for a special joint event with the Scottish Peace Platform to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process.
@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his excellent new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar.
@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his excellent new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Join us on 25 Nov at 5pm (42 Bute Gdns) for a special joint event with the Scottish Peace Platform to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process.
@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his excellent new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar.
@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his excellent new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar.
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
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The US designated transnational gang Barrio 18 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
This is big news because there's a large *US-based* component of the gang in Los Angeles. (All other FTOs are, uh, foreign.)
Prediction: this will be used to imprison and/or deport even more people in LA.
This is big news because there's a large *US-based* component of the gang in Los Angeles. (All other FTOs are, uh, foreign.)
Prediction: this will be used to imprison and/or deport even more people in LA.
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The US designated transnational gang Barrio 18 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
This is big news because there's a large *US-based* component of the gang in Los Angeles. (All other FTOs are, uh, foreign.)
Prediction: this will be used to imprison and/or deport even more people in LA.
This is big news because there's a large *US-based* component of the gang in Los Angeles. (All other FTOs are, uh, foreign.)
Prediction: this will be used to imprison and/or deport even more people in LA.
So it’s not just about the small boats and asylum seekers in hotels? Who’d have thought it?!
September 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
So it’s not just about the small boats and asylum seekers in hotels? Who’d have thought it?!
We have amazing international students, many of whom already feel targeted by the Home Office’s hostile environment. Further damage to the higher education sector to placate the far-right. Pathetic.
September 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We have amazing international students, many of whom already feel targeted by the Home Office’s hostile environment. Further damage to the higher education sector to placate the far-right. Pathetic.
@anandmenon.bsky.social is spot on. Farage can write stuff like this in the Telegraph with no pushback: “Is Starmer on the side of the British people, national security and protecting women and girls?” The mainstreaming of far-right narratives is disturbing.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
@anandmenon.bsky.social is spot on. Farage can write stuff like this in the Telegraph with no pushback: “Is Starmer on the side of the British people, national security and protecting women and girls?” The mainstreaming of far-right narratives is disturbing.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Ella Barron in the Guardian today.
August 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Ella Barron in the Guardian today.
Enjoying the Nazi Cartel on Sky? Then pre-order my book Narco-Democratization:
tinyurl.com/y62a6jyf
The book explains how drug bosses like Suarez helped shaped Bolivian politics. Maybe not quite as salacious as the doc, but a good read nevertheless!
tinyurl.com/y62a6jyf
The book explains how drug bosses like Suarez helped shaped Bolivian politics. Maybe not quite as salacious as the doc, but a good read nevertheless!
July 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Enjoying the Nazi Cartel on Sky? Then pre-order my book Narco-Democratization:
tinyurl.com/y62a6jyf
The book explains how drug bosses like Suarez helped shaped Bolivian politics. Maybe not quite as salacious as the doc, but a good read nevertheless!
tinyurl.com/y62a6jyf
The book explains how drug bosses like Suarez helped shaped Bolivian politics. Maybe not quite as salacious as the doc, but a good read nevertheless!
Ironman Vitoria-Gasteiz ✅
Finished in 10:59. Snapped chain on the bike and stomach cramps on the run cost me a big chunk of time, but happy to come in under 11hrs. Crowds were amazing!
Finished in 10:59. Snapped chain on the bike and stomach cramps on the run cost me a big chunk of time, but happy to come in under 11hrs. Crowds were amazing!
July 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ironman Vitoria-Gasteiz ✅
Finished in 10:59. Snapped chain on the bike and stomach cramps on the run cost me a big chunk of time, but happy to come in under 11hrs. Crowds were amazing!
Finished in 10:59. Snapped chain on the bike and stomach cramps on the run cost me a big chunk of time, but happy to come in under 11hrs. Crowds were amazing!
Says a lot about the UK media and political class that there’s more outrage and dissection of a provocative anti-IDF chant at Glastonbury than reported murder of civilians by the IDF
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Says a lot about the UK media and political class that there’s more outrage and dissection of a provocative anti-IDF chant at Glastonbury than reported murder of civilians by the IDF
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Saw Springsteen at Liverpool at the weekend. Music was great, topped off by the appearance of Paul McCartney for the encore. The politics of the evening left me angry, though.
June 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Saw Springsteen at Liverpool at the weekend. Music was great, topped off by the appearance of Paul McCartney for the encore. The politics of the evening left me angry, though.
Southport Olympic Tri ✅
Puncture during the second lap of the cycle done for me, but still finished and ran a PB in the 10k (41:30) out of anger 😂
Puncture during the second lap of the cycle done for me, but still finished and ran a PB in the 10k (41:30) out of anger 😂
May 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Southport Olympic Tri ✅
Puncture during the second lap of the cycle done for me, but still finished and ran a PB in the 10k (41:30) out of anger 😂
Puncture during the second lap of the cycle done for me, but still finished and ran a PB in the 10k (41:30) out of anger 😂
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From Colombia's Atrato River to the River Clyde, communities are sharing how we can protect our rivers from harm to help them thrive.
The UofG & @sciaf.bsky.social talk on the topic included the Atrato River Guardians @mohume.bsky.social @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @allangillies.bsky.social.
The UofG & @sciaf.bsky.social talk on the topic included the Atrato River Guardians @mohume.bsky.social @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @allangillies.bsky.social.
May 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
From Colombia's Atrato River to the River Clyde, communities are sharing how we can protect our rivers from harm to help them thrive.
The UofG & @sciaf.bsky.social talk on the topic included the Atrato River Guardians @mohume.bsky.social @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @allangillies.bsky.social.
The UofG & @sciaf.bsky.social talk on the topic included the Atrato River Guardians @mohume.bsky.social @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @allangillies.bsky.social.
FYI, Saudi Arabia is reported as a major funder of the Tony Blair Institute
April 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
FYI, Saudi Arabia is reported as a major funder of the Tony Blair Institute
