@jimmccormick.bsky.social
CEO at The Robertson Trust, an independent funder for Scotland on Poverty and Trauma. Also on LinkedIn. No longer on the site known for tweets. All things solving poverty. Likes: walks by water, music, film, Morton FC. In Glasgow, born Dublin. Joined 08/24
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.
(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
Nicky Campbell on his new podcast ‘Don’t Say A Word’
‘How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Robertson Trust has acted in response to rising anti‑migrant sentiment, increased hostility in public discourse, and the resulting harm experienced by migrants and racially minoritised communities across Scotland.
Read our full response:
www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/our-res...
We're #hiring for two amazing roles!
⭐A Communications Manager to lead brand new @therobertsontrust.bsky.social funded three year hope based communications work at WSC.
✨A Policy & Participation Officer to support our policy work.
Check out both & apply!
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New Blog 💡 | One year into our Community Spaces Fund, we’ve reviewed what we’ve learned so far to refine our approach and support stronger applications.
Read more⤵️
www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/learnin...
Dressing up for world book day is bullshit, even leaving the parental finance stuff aside. It's one of very few 'event' days in school calenders set aside for a solo, quiet, activity – and then it's turned into dress-up. Spectacularly misses the point. Schools should drop it from a great height.
There is always a tweet.
‘Contra the narrow focus of policymakers on Stem subjects or coding, now more than ever our economy rewards broad skillsets: team players, problem solvers, good communicators and creative thinkers.’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/5e25...
Have just subscribed to this AI/jobs newsletter and it's excellent
The AI Shift: What millions of job ads reveal about AI displacement - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @sarahoconnorft.ft.com @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com....
The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them...
www.ft.com/content/b474...
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...
Pulp's version of The Day Before You Came has got me returning to one of my favourite topics.
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
This is one beautifully crafted essay by Allan Little on the outlook for 'middle powers' amid the "rupture rather than transiiton" identified by Mark Carney in Davos. Signals to make sense of the noise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our third Impact and Insights report, focused on Education Pathways, is now available 🔍💡
www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/impact-...
Small Grant holders can now apply for £2k–£10k through our Supporting Resilience Fund. Strengthen leadership, systems, finances, and staff wellbeing to help your organisation stay strong.
👉 www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/support...
Twelve projects aimed at delivering deep, long‑term systems change to reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland - through the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections and beyond - will share £2.2M in funding.
Read more about the projects below 👇
www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/beyond-...
It's good Dave, but it's not Gotta Pull Myself Together good.
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
This is a bad headline.
But I guess, ‘add 0.1% to total employment costs’ is less exciting.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
#ArtistFaveXmas
Day 5
ABBA - One Of Us
1981's Christmas chart was full of Christmas Adjacent magic. This was ABBA at their brilliant darkest best. Merry f***ing Christmas
youtu.be/IIKAe8Wi0S0?...
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
It is a bad idea for the Commonwealth Games to not be free to air. Glasgow 2026 may struggle for impact and visibility as a result of preferring this bid
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises
I sincerely hope truth and reconciliation with Bosnia Herzegovina is on the EU agenda as a prior condition.
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow