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Susan

@snapperup

Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong. #Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax

 Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined January 2009
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The Cab Sec's explanation will be interesting.
@GinaDavidson (@ginadavidsonlbc) profile picture@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc10h
The £2 bus fare cap in the Highlands has cost Scotrail £750,000 per annum - the rail firm says if that 12% fall in revenue is replicated in Strathclyde, it could cost it £20m a year.
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Odd choice to open this exhibition.
John Swinney (@JohnSwinney) profile pictureJohn Swinney
@JohnSwinney8h
It was an honour to open the new David Bowie exhibition at @VADundee today. What a fantastic celebration of his life and legacy. It's also a real testament to V&A Dundee's strength as a cultural institution. My government will continue investing in culture across Scotland.
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My always high opinion of @jamesmatthewsky just got higher.
Sky News (@SkyNews) profile pictureSky News
@SkyNewsNov 3
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK. Watch the heated exchange between the two. Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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How depressing.
Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) profile pictureHugo Rifkind@hugorifkind16h
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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"the Westminster Treasury"
The SNP (@theSNP) profile pictureThe SNP
@theSNPNov 3
🔎 Back in 2014 the Westminster Treasury rolled out ‘12 things that £1,400 UK Dividend could buy‘, we’ve looked at how much many of those items cost now as part of the UK. snp.org/youll-have-had-your-…
You’ll have had your 280 fish suppers & 636 cappuccinos — Scottish National Party

You’ll have had your 280 fish suppers & 636 cappuccinos — Scottish National Party

When a promise made at the ballot box turns out to be as hollow as a cut-price Easter egg, democracy demands a remedy.

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I think the #JohnLewisChristmas ad in 20 years time should revisit this family as granny’s will is being read out. And she’s left the lot to a donkey sanctuary. Karma, you materialistic little sods.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ministers have launched a radical overhaul to merge Scotland’s 14 health boards into two mega-authorities without producing a business case, internal Scottish Government papers seen by @heraldscotland reveal.
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If you're a parent and the draft Conversion Practices Bill doesn't terrify you, you haven't yet understood what it could do to you and the people you love best.
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This will fuel calls for a women’s trade union. And rightly so.
Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) profile pictureTribunal Tweets
@tribunaltweetsNov 2
Nurse Sandie Peggie has lost her employment tribunal case against her union, Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Judge Melanie Sangster dismissed claims that RCN discriminated against her because of her gender critical beliefs. Find the judgment and press on our Substack. 🔗⬇️
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Jayne Ozanne’s evidence to the #ConversionBill Committee is incredible 🧵 Like other witnesses in favour, Jayne says it’s “so difficult talking in the abstract”. It’s not difficult for me to know that I’d go to prison rather than let an 11yr old wear a breast binder.>
teresa smith (@treesey) profile pictureteresa smith@treeseyNov 2
Revealing exchange with @NazShahBfd She asks Ms Ozanne about an 11 year old girl who wants to bind her breasts & her parents refuse to purchase the binder. “It’s so difficult talking in the abstract” says Ozanne “I can’t give you a direct answer” This is a CRIMINAL law 2 clips
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Replying to @JohnSwinney @TheScotsman
The question is not whether your gov should promote Scotland overseas; it is whether the SNP, as a separatist party of gov, is also using these opportunities to advance its constitutional ambitions. I would argue that it is, and that this is, in fact, its primary objective. 🙄
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The content warning the bill committee is applying to its own proceedings - in contravention of an earlier decision taken for Parliament as a whole - is explicitly part of building a case for the Bill being needed. It needs calling out, hard, fast and repeatedly till it stops.
Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) profile pictureBev Jackson
@BevJacksonAuthNov 1
Listen to Sarah Vine KC explaining the horror of the Conversion Practices Bill. It all started with “No debate”. That didn’t work. So now the activists are trying to make conversations that cause distress a criminal offence carrying a 5-year prison sentence.
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I must know 79 people here on this platform who can sign and share this today and get us to the first milestone of 10,000 signatures!! "Women should not have to see the words woman, girl, mother, and pregnant woman disappear or become secondary." #XX petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Petition: Require sex specific language in government, NHS, education, and public bodies

Petition: Require sex specific language in government, NHS, education, and public bodies

Require Government departments, NHS, education and publicly funded bodies to use the words women, girls, mothers and pregnant women as the primary and default wording in policies, guidance and public...

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Aren't political observers and commentators supposed to have original things to say?
The National (@ScotNational) profile pictureThe National
@ScotNationalNov 1
Nicola Sturgeon has revealed a 'mad' conversation she had with US president Donald Trump while she was Scotland's first minister 👀
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This. I have lost count of the people I used to regard as towering intellects whose brains this cult has melted.
Lucy Hunter Blackburn (@LucyHunterB) profile pictureLucy Hunter Blackburn@LucyHunterBOct 30
Replying to @BettsCaro @CommonsSpeaker
You were ever looking for evidence that we are dealing with something quite exceptionally brain melting here, this is it.
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Women are being killed in Scotland and I fear we are getting used to it…..strong words from Karyn McCluskey CEO of Community Justice Scotland telling it like it is. Karyn never sugar coats reality. She has seen the human cost of the increasing violence that means the most dangerous place in Scotland for many women is her own home and as a result thousands of children are living in terror. This is why we launched It’s Time…the carnage must end now!
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Imagine any newspaper doling out awards to those who lie to them, knock back their FOIs and prefer to see journalists corralled in parliamentary ‘pen’, as if they’re no better than livestock 🤦🏻‍♀
The Herald (@heraldscotland) profile pictureThe Herald
@heraldscotlandOct 30
Scottish Greens co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay have been nominated for The Herald's Scottish Politician of the Year. See the full shortlist 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
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Fundamental viewing in my youth. Unmatched.
archivetvmusings (@archivetvmus71) profile picturearchivetvmusings@archivetvmus71Oct 31
'A New Germany', the first episode of The World at War, was broadcast on this day in 1973. Produced by Jeremy Issacs and narrated by Laurence Olivier, the series (which continues to be regularly re-run worldwide) was three years in the making.
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Few months old now but one of the best and clearest analyses of the SNP and its peculiar, aggressive culture I've heard in ages. pca.st/episode/0d45be14-0161…
Matt Forde: SNP has an ‘absolute allergy to scrutiny’

Matt Forde: SNP has an ‘absolute allergy to scrutiny’

Political satirist Matt Forde joins The Herald’s Political Correspondent Hannah Brown for a wide-ranging conversation about Scottish and UK politics.He accuses the SNP of an “absolute allergy to…

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Lisa Mackenzie (@lnmackenzie1) profile pictureLisa Mackenzie@lnmackenzie1Oct 29
The livestream link for today's evidence session in the UK Parliament on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill carried a warning telling viewers that 'The evidence session may include content that some viewers may find distressing.' parliamentlive.tv/event/inde…
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