#Scotland

[thread] Lets have some Saturday evening Edinburgh railway history...Q: When was the first railway constructed in Edinburgh area?A: The Innocent Railway (Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway) in 1831 of courseBZZZT Wrong...A:
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Yes, COVID19 pandemic was indeed a 2020 public health emergency caused by SARS-CoV-2.But as guardians of testing and mortality attribution @RCPath has let the country down badly.Take a look at
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Iโ€˜m a democrat. I believe in democratic elections. I donโ€™t believe in attempting to topple governments, unless it is *absolutely* necessary.We had an election in 2019. We lost. We may
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As promised, hereโ€™s a round up of my favourite funny/positive news stories from the year Thread... Starting with one of my favourite pieces of comms work - this
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FPL STATS OF SHITHOUSERY ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ THE OFFICIAL HINDU MONKEY FPL AWARDSIt's Award Season in the #FPLCommunity - but the only one people really want to win is a Hindu Monkey Shithousery
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Throughout the pandemic, to a rough approximation, every single UK policy success has been built on a good database. And every single policy failure has resulted from a bad/nonexistent one.
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I'll sign off for 2020 with an appreciation of the wonderful @SalfordPGRs and postdoc team I work with! The year of the panic, quarantines, Lockdowns and Zoom lab meetings! Despite
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FM Nicola Sturgeon today set out the latest on Scotland's route out of lockdown. Here's the quick summary: Speaking to Parliament she said :"I am not able to indicate, today,
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LATEST OPINIUM / OBSERVER POLLThe three-point Tory lead is a shift from our previous poll, but roughly in line with what we have seen elsewhere over the past fortnight. Voting
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British Empire It was the second largest empire in history, and probably the most important for the legacy that he left and that continues to exist today. Occurs between the
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BGC FACT-CHECK: A short thread on BGC members and our zero tolerance approach to betting by under-18s. You cannot gamble if you are under-18 with a BGC member and we
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My thread was getting wild so I'm going to start a new one with Florence Okoye's keynote 'Caliban at the Boiler: Rendering Speculative Fiction as Plantation Hardware' @FINOkoye for the
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1/ Trade unions, health experts, education experts, educators, @ChildrensComm @amanda_spielman, local authorities, natl govt all weighing in on #schoolsclosure debate - huge conflict & a total lack of coordination. And
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Excess Deaths 2020I've been taking a look at excess death in Scotland. There is a lot of pain in these statistics which follow. What jumps out is that we have
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A few upcoming funding deadlines for makers..... Visual Artist & Craft Maker Awards : Renfrewshire deadline 2 Feb https://www.renfrewshireleisure.com/opportunities/vacma/ Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards @CreativeScots @Edinburgh_C
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Thread. Are you ready to #peaktrans ?I mean really #peaktrans ? Like #super #peaktrans ?On your marks. Get set. Mridal Wadhwa runs the Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre in Scotland
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