Norman Dalgleish
LightNews LightNews
banner
tormod46.bsky.social
Norman Dalgleish
@tormod46.bsky.social
100 followers 320 following 28 posts
Maths, pensions, cycling, Edinburgh 🤘
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
This is the best explainer I’ve seen on Ratcliffe’s motives for his racist outburst. We shouldn’t enter into any ‘debate’ on immigration on these terms. It’s a deeply dishonest and dangerous call to arms by cynical people who prioritise profit over everything else
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
So yes, there is this point of view. You could very easily be cynical, jaded, lost in realpolitik at the revelation that Ratcliffe feels it useful to pretend Britain is in economic difficulty because of an invading army of foreigners. And that Nigel Farage, arch deregulator, seems, in his disinterested view, an entirely reasonable voice on this topic. Let us be clear about what is happening here. There is very little chance Ratcliffe feels any of this deeply. But he does know that a slash-and-burn Reform government would be good for business. With his Ineos hat on Ratcliffe has spoken publicly about the problems of doing business in the current version of a non-EU UK. He wants a harder out. Immigration is just a wedge issue in this dynamic, a way of pressing those buttons. If Ratcliffe actually gives a personal toss about this, is actually losing any sleep about its effects on "everyday people", I will gladly eat my own arm. This is pre-electioneering on behalf of the super-wealthy. A powerful person with skin in the game is trying to influence people into voting a certain way.
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
tobyn.bsky.social
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.

Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.

homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey. Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time
February 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
heldutson.bsky.social
Something compelled me to make this
A screenshot of a mocked-up Guardian headline, which reads: "Ignore the smears: I was never the one who ate a full tub of Lurpack off the kitchen counter." The byline is: "My dog." And there's a picture of my dog, posing with a serious expression, like a journalist. She is a black labrador type dog with brown eyes, grey muzzle and shiny, silky fur on her face, wearing a pink collar. Underneath the headline continues: "Listen, I'm a good girl. I don't know how butter stealers thrive in our political culture, but it's clear there was a failure of moral seriousness." There's then a link to another article, headlined: "Footage of Lola eating the butter, which cost her owners £300, was captured on a dog cam." It's a parody of this article from Wes Streeting in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/peter-mandelson-wes-streeting-vetting-moral-seriousness
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
alfdubs.bsky.social
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
🧵
Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
bylinetimes.bsky.social
📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff

As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/
The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
bylinetimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
ottoenglish.bsky.social
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
lilgemgem.bsky.social
This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
pauljholden.com
Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
neilrkaye.bsky.social
Here in the UK it is cold and wet but there is at least the positive that the days are getting longer quite rapidly now. At 51 degrees north where I live we will gain an extra 24 minutes of daylight this week as this #dataviz shows.
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
“Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, told the Times last year that his party would adopt a 'Trump 2.0' approach to immigration, saying: "We are going to move at great speed. It'll be much more like Trump mark two than Trump mark one"
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
lewisgoodall.com
With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the govt would be trying to regulate the company out of business.
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
jdportes.bsky.social
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...

www.ft.com/content/a23c...
UK drops target for international student recruitment
Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
havoc147.bsky.social
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
snellarthur.bsky.social
Devastating analysis. I had thought that the agent who removed Pretti’s gun negligently discharged it, the shot leading others to start shooting Pretti. Not even: they shot *after* disarming him. No shots were fired from Pretti’s gun. A cold-blooded execution.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
cwebbonline.com
“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.
January 26, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
bellingcat.com
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
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
trumpsatwit.bsky.social
Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
donmoyn.bsky.social
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?
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
tormod46.bsky.social
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...
bas.ac.uk British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 22d
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 ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
bas.ac.uk
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 ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
kityates.bsky.social
How much do we think Trump's desire to "own" Greenland is a result of the distortions of the Mercator projection?
#MapsMatter
January 20, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
carolinelucas.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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.
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 23d
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)
January 21, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Norman Dalgleish
realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social
Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 AM