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Ewan Gibbs

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Ewan Gibbs

@ewangibbs

Historian of energy and labour. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not always entirely serious.

Glasgow

Joined June 2009

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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Mar 30, 2024
My book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, is available to download for free from this link! You can also buy a paper copy. Coal Country is the first book length account of the end of coal mining in Scotland.
Coal Country - University of London Press
From uolpress.co.uk
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Sep 24, 2025
It turns out politics is about conflicting class interests. More as we get it.
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jan 15, 2021
Just grassing on an exhausted delivery driver as I order medical supplies for my horse. Class society is alive and well in 2021.
Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Sep 2, 2021
The British press is up in arms that Waitrose lorry drivers now earn enough to shop at Waitrose.
Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Feb 15, 2025
British workers used to work six full days, then they won the ‘English Saturday’ half day (why football matches kick off at 3pm) before a full day off became standard for a two day weekend. The four day week is the next logical step for social progress and dignity.
Andrew Griffith MP
@griffitha
Feb 12, 2025
A dozen Labour MPs have signed an amendment calling for a 4-day-week. Less work, same pay, huge costs for everyone else. But who is pushing these policies of the workshy? Let’s dive into the whacky world of 4-day work and unmask who's behind it... 👇🧵
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jul 26, 2025
Half a million people signing up to a call for a new left-wing party in Britain is actually very significant and without parallel in living memory.
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Aug 25, 2024
Renewable energy is now so abundant and so cheap that it’s bad for business. This is a great case for treating electricity as a publicly utility instead of a commodity.
Gerard Reid
@gerardreid14
Aug 25, 2024
It’s Crazy Sunday! This afternoon, #Europe will experience negative electricity prices from #Finland to #Lithuania, #Poland, and #France. Meanwhile, #Germany will see zero or negative wholesale #power prices for most of the day due to massive #wind and #solar production. Germany
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jul 15, 2025
The British right is redefining ‘working class’ to include landowning farmers and business owners whilst denigrating unionised public sector workers as ‘parasites’.
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jul 23, 2025
Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.
Damian Low
@DamianLow3
Jul 23, 2025
State pension age could rise to 74. Male life expectancy in areas such as Blackpool is 73 years. Something needs to change.
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Aug 7, 2025
I don’t think the Labour Party’s homelessness minister should be a landlord in the first place.
The i Paper
@theipaper
Aug 6, 2025
Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/MrjEOpf
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Feb 16, 2024
We all used to own British Gas. These profits could and should have been lower bills.
Guardian news
@guardiannews
Feb 15, 2024
British Gas profits leap from £72m to £751m in a year dlvr.it/T2n2Q0
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jul 28, 2025
‘Capitalism is just the default mode of economics’ is some powerful ideology.
Mikita 👨‍💻
@mikitaposts
Jul 28, 2025
Calling capitalism an “ideology” is kind of ridiculous. “Millions were killed by capitalism” is a ridiculous thing to say. Capitalism is just the default mode of economics. “I made this item and I will sell it for something else” has been going on since ancient times.
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Oct 17, 2025
Don’t threaten us with a good time
Labourball
@labourball
Oct 16, 2025
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Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Jul 10, 2025
A large portion of people in Britain think that they should be able to pass on huge unearned wealth accrued through surging property prices without paying any tax on it. It's a massive problem for a society where property ownership has become the defining feature of wealth.
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