Substacks recommended by Iain Macwhirter's Substack

Recommended by Iain Macwhirter's Substack

Morning Call

By Will Dunn

The New Statesman’s quick and essential guide to the news and politics of the day.

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

The best Substack in the Anglosphere by top British journalist, David Aaronovitch

The Jaggy Thistle

By Kenny Farquharson

Kenny Farquharson in Scotland: Politics. Culture. Essays. Photography. From an award-winning Times newspaper columnist.

Strangers and Intimates

By Tiffany Jenkins

Reflections on history, museums and art; unveiling insights and stories from my next book: Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.

Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts

Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?

Independence Captured

By Jonathon Shafi

A weekly newsletter on Scottish independence from a socialist perspective.

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

The Debatable Land

By Alex Massie

Politics, culture, and history from Scotland, the UK and beyond

This Woman Won't Wheesht

By Susan Dalgety

Writing about feminism in 21st century Scotland - for a purpose

TL;DRussia

By Sam Greene

Insight and analysis. No riddles or mysteries.

Global Inequality and More 3.0

By Branko Milanovic

Global inequality and More 3.0

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Dominic Cummings substack

Systems Politics and Regime Change

Wrong Side of History

By Ed West

It's Ed West's sub stack

Identity Matters

By Sunny Hundal

How our identities drive modern politics

Letters from Suzanne

By Suzanne Moore

The whole shebang. Writings, personal and political .

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.