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Pat Kane

Glasgow, London

Eco-soc #indy. Writer @scotnational. Editor @alterglobal21. Singer @hueandcry. Ideas https://t.co/WsFU1Jogoo Semi-bio: https://t.co/7HY8WYGWrG #AdAstra

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  • Pat Kane: STV's new radio station could be the jolt Scottish music culture needs

    2 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Pat Kane

    STV wants to start a radio station! Aimed at Scottish audiences! Hiring presenters! Let me find my Tiger Tim promotional baseball cap! In my relationship with radio, this almost comes full circle. Forty-odd years ago, my musical yearnings began to be answered by Radio Clyde’s Billy Sloan show (Billy’s still plying his trade weekly on BBC Radio Scotland). I heard The Blue Nile’s I Love This Life on Billy’s show, lost under my nylon bedsheets, and haven’t been the same since.

  • Has Robert De Niro found his most important role ever: taking on Donald Trump?

    3 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Pat Kane

    With a soft kiss and a tender hug for Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro accepted his lifetime achievement Palme D’Or award earlier this week. What does an authentic patriarch (or for that matter, matriarch) do? Identify the threat to the tribe, gather forces for self-defence and self-belief. Small and bowed, craggy and thinning-greying, De Niro stepped up. Without missing a beat, the actor launched into his Trump attacks.

  • Is there any escape from Donald Trump? For Scotland, it's complicated

    4 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Pat Kane

    Donald Trump pictured in 2008 at the house his mother grew up in in Lewis TO my eyes, it’s the most striking image unearthed by The National team’s tour d’horizon of Trump and Scotland this week. The date is June 2008. The Orange One, tie at full length and combover at full strength, is raising his arm at the gate of his mother’s pebbledash house on the Isle of Lewis. In the background, one of his cousins keeks out the front door.

  • TRNSMT: Please hold your nerve and keep Kneecap

    1 month ago | thenational.scot | Pat Kane

    Members of Kneecap attending the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Awards Ceremony THE Belfast agit-rappers Kneecap might be shaping up to be this era’s Sex Pistols. “I wanna destroy passers-by” and the Queen’s “fascist regime” parallel easily with stage shouts of “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” and “the only good Tory is a dead Tory”.

  • If Scotland has an 'independence cohort', they have a lot of work to do

    1 month ago | thenational.scot | Pat Kane

    Young Scots must look to community ownership of energy to help build a new nation, Pat Kane writes A “COHORT” – if the term comes to your mind at all – sounds military. Indeed, it was the name for one-tenth of a Roman legion. But that itself came from the Latin “cohors”, meaning enclosure, farmyard or retinue.

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Pat Kane
Pat Kane @thoughtland
10 May 25

I was asked to respond to the @scotnational’s brilliant torrent of articles on @realDonaldTrump and Scotland. One positive thing about pushing for Scots Indy is that it drives his maddening ubiquity out of your head… https://t.co/r0AnhBAqJb https://t.co/hYCaRziiG9

Pat Kane
Pat Kane @thoughtland
8 May 25

On Trump’s love of AI slop https://t.co/kRmXX11Fh2 I call it all the #caligularity. The bit to worry about is the Arendtian critique—where all these Trump-as-King/Pope/Gaza Riveria memes make our reality seem more malleable

Pat Kane
Pat Kane @thoughtland
5 May 25

Any chance of the video of this discussion getting to a wider public, @Mark_Solms? https://t.co/WynzFbQGHl