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Duncan Hothersall🌹
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"Dr Tim Rideout, Economist" has a reassuring ring to it doesn't it? You might assume the doctorate was in economics. You'd be wrong. It's in geography.https://twitter.com/lornagreens/status/1308017812909297667 Be fair,
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The LSE report is a "negative portrayal of indy" in the same sense that Debenhams' last set of accounts is a negative portrayal of a major retailer.https://twitter.com/LesleyRiddoch/status/1357271826842472456 And if you're
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I realise it's difficult for politicians to call for the delay of elections. Nobody wants to appear as though they are trying to avoid the judgement of the electorate. But
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Remember when the Scottish Government was happy to cite the Centre for Economic Performance when assessing the economic impact of Brexit in 2016? Apparently the same organisation's assessment of the
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I see people are angry that Fiona Bruce asked a perfectly reasonable question about lower vaccination rates in Scotland and then allowed the SNP representative to answer it. They absolutely
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It's really worth remembering how this works, at least - how people with guns storming the democratic seat of government wasn't how it started. It started with people quietly seeing
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THREAD: Thoughts on trans rights and what equality actually means.Some of the anti-trans commentary currently circulating on social media thanks to recent events is just straightforwardly offensive. But much of
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Lots of chat about whether #devolution has been worthwhile this morning, and I understand why some who, like me, favour Scotland remaining in the UK might think it was a
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So this seems to have provoked quite a lot of, eh, debate. 900 mostly angry responses and still coming thick and fast. A reasonable proportion are just variations of "fuck
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If you see a social media post asking you to share a message and it explicitly asks you not to use the retweet (Twitter) or share (Facebook) functions but instead
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2001 - Henry McLeish resigns over a missing entry in the register of members' interests.2005 - David McLetchie resigns after he was found to have wrongly claimed expenses for taxis.2008
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Interesting to see people confidently asserting that live, unedited broadcasts of politicians speaking are somehow intrinsically more honest than edited news coverage. This ignores some fairly obvious truths. Politicians say
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