Pat Kane
@patkane.bsky.social
New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!
Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration measures will make integration harder—in an era where climate disruption will inevitably bring the South to the North. At least Scotland’s civic nationalism has prepped us for greater diversity. My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Shabana Mahmood’s draconian immigration measures will make integration harder—in an era where climate disruption will inevitably bring the South to the North. At least Scotland’s civic nationalism has prepped us for greater diversity. My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!
Struggling with quite strong emotions this morning. That an entity called “Scotland” doesn’t blow it, at the last minute, “you know our sense of timing”, etc… hmm. Deep stirrings. Found this in five minutes from the house 🏴🚀
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Struggling with quite strong emotions this morning. That an entity called “Scotland” doesn’t blow it, at the last minute, “you know our sense of timing”, etc… hmm. Deep stirrings. Found this in five minutes from the house 🏴🚀
An insight into Pictish society reported from Orkney this week - they weren’t just violently obliterated by the Vikings, but adapted to their presence, innovating with their new context. Some lessons for the indy-minded today. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
An insight into Pictish society reported from Orkney this week - they weren’t just violently obliterated by the Vikings, but adapted to their presence, innovating with their new context. Some lessons for the indy-minded today. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...
There’s a new @NTSonline play coming of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, with the promise of “knives sharpened”. In these dark times, I hope the adaptation highlights its deep anti-fascism, with many lessons for today. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2560...
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There’s a new @NTSonline play coming of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, with the promise of “knives sharpened”. In these dark times, I hope the adaptation highlights its deep anti-fascism, with many lessons for today. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2560...
Latest Alternative Weekly is out now. Editorial on how culture will remove nukes; the rise of cooperative AI; let women do the peace talks; the music video of the year; democratic tech (including karaoke)—and much more. Enjoy, share, support! mailchi.mp/dc7f81f5b17f...
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Latest Alternative Weekly is out now. Editorial on how culture will remove nukes; the rise of cooperative AI; let women do the peace talks; the music video of the year; democratic tech (including karaoke)—and much more. Enjoy, share, support! mailchi.mp/dc7f81f5b17f...
Happy interview on STV news, celebrating our (@hueandcry) Outstanding Achievement awards at the SMAs this Saturday. Also: big full-band tour in 2026! With @roachfordmusic & @JHJ_Official! Tickets here: hueandcry.co.uk/hue-and-cry-...
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Happy interview on STV news, celebrating our (@hueandcry) Outstanding Achievement awards at the SMAs this Saturday. Also: big full-band tour in 2026! With @roachfordmusic & @JHJ_Official! Tickets here: hueandcry.co.uk/hue-and-cry-...
Watching the magnificent Catherine Connolly, and considering her radical predecessors as Irish Presidents, makes you dream fondly of a Scottish President in a Scottish republic. But can we unplug from the Windsors as Head of State? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Watching the magnificent Catherine Connolly, and considering her radical predecessors as Irish Presidents, makes you dream fondly of a Scottish President in a Scottish republic. But can we unplug from the Windsors as Head of State? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
No doubt SNP happy(ish) about this poll. But as for the overall health of the Scottish polity… *that* many Scots embracing an anti-immigration, anti-net-zero politics? Despite its gurning leader? We need to ask deeper questions about disempowerment… archive.is/oveK4 archive.is/oveK4
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
No doubt SNP happy(ish) about this poll. But as for the overall health of the Scottish polity… *that* many Scots embracing an anti-immigration, anti-net-zero politics? Despite its gurning leader? We need to ask deeper questions about disempowerment… archive.is/oveK4 archive.is/oveK4
Couch-bingeing on deep state tv thrillers like #thediplomat and #slowhorses is its own kind of citizens’ passivity. But the geopolitics of Indy are at the heart of the former—& it certainly focuses the mind on our maritime defence. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Couch-bingeing on deep state tv thrillers like #thediplomat and #slowhorses is its own kind of citizens’ passivity. But the geopolitics of Indy are at the heart of the former—& it certainly focuses the mind on our maritime defence. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
New edition of @AlterGlobal21’s Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/9589dff6bf23... - editorial on a vision for our current wave of protest; “groupcore” for creatives; energy from Heaven; bringing offshore wind home to Scotland; events and more. News also from spring.site
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New edition of @AlterGlobal21’s Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/9589dff6bf23... - editorial on a vision for our current wave of protest; “groupcore” for creatives; energy from Heaven; bringing offshore wind home to Scotland; events and more. News also from spring.site
So many China-related stories this week—their Scottish locus pretty prominent. But the rough beast that stalks the discourse of security chiefs & challenged competitors—is that the whole story? Some different voices heard, in my @ScotNational column today www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
So many China-related stories this week—their Scottish locus pretty prominent. But the rough beast that stalks the discourse of security chiefs & challenged competitors—is that the whole story? Some different voices heard, in my @ScotNational column today www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
Radiation leaks in Scotland—from collapsing old reactors, decrepit nuclear sub bases…We need Indy, just 2 clean up the place. But can we also make a virtue out of decentralised renewable power, as a positive alternative energy system? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
October 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Radiation leaks in Scotland—from collapsing old reactors, decrepit nuclear sub bases…We need Indy, just 2 clean up the place. But can we also make a virtue out of decentralised renewable power, as a positive alternative energy system? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
New Alternative Weekly out from @AlterGlobal21 mailchi.mp/93f31dc80583.... Editorial on how to beat hopelessness—posts on @audreyt, @KateRaworth, Tim Jackson, Jane Goodall, engaging w/ Reform, the digital “Eurostack”. As well as stories from spring.site. Enjoy, support!
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New Alternative Weekly out from @AlterGlobal21 mailchi.mp/93f31dc80583.... Editorial on how to beat hopelessness—posts on @audreyt, @KateRaworth, Tim Jackson, Jane Goodall, engaging w/ Reform, the digital “Eurostack”. As well as stories from spring.site. Enjoy, support!
Modernity is a dark joke. A 112 min movie that examines the 20 mins response time to a rogue nuke fired from Asian landmass. “Nice interview, Ms Bigelow! Next, the Booker Prize!”🤯Remains basis of my support 4 Indy: it’s 1 small step away from annihilation www.metacritic.com/movie/a-hous...
October 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Modernity is a dark joke. A 112 min movie that examines the 20 mins response time to a rogue nuke fired from Asian landmass. “Nice interview, Ms Bigelow! Next, the Booker Prize!”🤯Remains basis of my support 4 Indy: it’s 1 small step away from annihilation www.metacritic.com/movie/a-hous...
As one myself, I enjoyed #TheHack’s story of heroic journalists revealing their own profession’s phone hacking. But what of the widespread resentment & powerlessness that produces the appetite/demand for these star-toppling stories? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/comment/2551...
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
As one myself, I enjoyed #TheHack’s story of heroic journalists revealing their own profession’s phone hacking. But what of the widespread resentment & powerlessness that produces the appetite/demand for these star-toppling stories? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/comment/2551...
Super upload of my open-access @ScotNational Saturday columns. Richard Holloway’s Last Words, handling the Nomad Century, technology both motherly & surveillant, Indy strategy, & cosmology for the soul… Enjoy, support! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-...
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Super upload of my open-access @ScotNational Saturday columns. Richard Holloway’s Last Words, handling the Nomad Century, technology both motherly & surveillant, Indy strategy, & cosmology for the soul… Enjoy, support! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-...
New edition of Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/4818b7814af8... - crossing a 7th planetary boundary, drones and the sky, soul-enhancing video, the mirrorball of Glasgow’s poets—& an editorial on the clash of youth uprisings. See www.spring.site also. Enjoy, share, support!
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New edition of Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/4818b7814af8... - crossing a 7th planetary boundary, drones and the sky, soul-enhancing video, the mirrorball of Glasgow’s poets—& an editorial on the clash of youth uprisings. See www.spring.site also. Enjoy, share, support!
“Papers, please!” It’s the opening line from Casablanca—& it captures the fears that an national iD system is a tool for coming tyranny (and/or Starmer’s anti-immigration pandering). Can Indy be an opp to build systems a lot better? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“Papers, please!” It’s the opening line from Casablanca—& it captures the fears that an national iD system is a tool for coming tyranny (and/or Starmer’s anti-immigration pandering). Can Indy be an opp to build systems a lot better? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Latest @AlterGlobal21 newsletter - Editorial gets clear on techno-futures, 16-17 year olds curious about new parties (political ones…), renewable energy’s Scottish power plays, hard imagination & new biology, and more. See also www.spring.site
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September 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Latest @AlterGlobal21 newsletter - Editorial gets clear on techno-futures, 16-17 year olds curious about new parties (political ones…), renewable energy’s Scottish power plays, hard imagination & new biology, and more. See also www.spring.site
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The US-UK Tech Prosperity deal—and its scores of billions—is an intimidating display. But there’s an Indy-minded version of these investments in data-centres. We can use nation-state sovereignty to model a “healthy computation”. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The US-UK Tech Prosperity deal—and its scores of billions—is an intimidating display. But there’s an Indy-minded version of these investments in data-centres. We can use nation-state sovereignty to model a “healthy computation”. My @scotnational column www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
This week’s @AlterGlobal21 newsletter features an Editorial on the “woke right”, and blogs on: grief as THE political emotion; using citizens media to save the Amazon; a new map of the regenerative paradigm; & more. & latest spring.site news mailchi.mp/11620970432e...
September 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This week’s @AlterGlobal21 newsletter features an Editorial on the “woke right”, and blogs on: grief as THE political emotion; using citizens media to save the Amazon; a new map of the regenerative paradigm; & more. & latest spring.site news mailchi.mp/11620970432e...