Dani Garavelli
@DaniGaravelli1
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Freelance journalist. Bylines @heraldscotland , @guardian , @lrb , @bigissue et al. Waiting for the Van/The Witches’ Pardon/Prosecuting Polmont @BBCR4 .
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This is the updated, extended version of my
@heraldscotland
story on the suicide of another child in Polmont.
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Thinking about that amazing Megan Rapinoe shot and how women are taught from the earliest age to take up as little space as possible; to make ourselves invisible, so we feel both uneasy and liberated looking at it.
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There are such "burn the witch" vibes from this photograph. An age-old story of men's power and men's fear. It's bleak as hell, but at the same time: hold on to that look of defiance.
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Jayda Fransen coming all this way just to bolster Nicola Sturgeon's image on election day is something to be savoured.
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@hkist
Currently living for the daily newsy missives from our youngest (which I insisted on) featuring classics such as "At hotel" and "Am alive".
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This is such a good point. Andy Murray felt like an ally in a way very few men do - he did it quietly, with absolute sincerity and never, ever made it about him. Having said that, I'm sure he won't stop now.
To my mind, one of the most gaping holes left by Andy Murray’s upcoming retirement is that of male sporting ally. In that role, he was truly tennis’s greatest of all time.
Ahead of Murray beginning his final
#Wimbledon
, my piece for
@iPaperSport
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I went to every day of the Alex Salmond trial and spoke to some of the women involved for this long-read for Tortoise Media.
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Launching my campaign to get people to spell Glasgow’s most heroic suburb properly with the slogan There Are No Cs in Pollokshields.
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I no longer care about "lost lessons" or even "lost learning": if they get through this with their spirits more or less intact that will be more than enough for me.
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So many times I think freelancing is too hard. Then I remember it means I will never again have to write about a royal baby and it's all worthwhile.
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The Noel Clarke story is a reminder that when people say a predator was "hiding in plain sight" what they really mean is "blind eyes were turned". And that turning a blind eye is a kind of complicity.
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For anyone in any doubt about the misogyny in this country, just look at that Sun front page. Absolute woman-hating garbage. Poisonous and completely unacceptable.
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I am wary of the endless slagging of the BBC but this is an astonishing U-Turn. So now not only does he get to pick and choose his platforms, he is given the opportunity to exploit a terrorist attack for his own ends.
The Prime Minister will be interviewed on tomorrow's Andrew Marr programme. Statement here.
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This is what gets missed - the toll of the last year on the original complainers and the chilling effect on other women.
Alex Salmond accuser 'incapacitated by depression' after his political return
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This outpouring of love for Hilary Mantel is a reminder of everything that is important but currently in short supply: beauty, craftsmanship, insight, compassion, perseverance, integrity and being true to yourself.
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Older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge, buffeted by Lewis gales.
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It does seem odd that those men who tell women they speak too much, or that what they say is worthless, or that they should be less thin or fat while saying it, should come over all perplexed and outraged when some women no longer want to say anything at all.
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How could COVID passports be in any way ethical when young people, who have borne so much of the brunt of the pandemic, aren’t being offered the vaccine? It feels like their lives and futures are being treated as the lowest priority.
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With some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend.
It's "unfortunate that this argument... has slightly overshadowed this debate" - Boris Johnson's father Stanley says he doesn't know where his son was during Channel 4's
#ClimateDebate
#bbcbreakfast
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FFS, just devolve immigration already.
“These are our neighbours. Let them go.” Pollokshields responding now to immigration enforcement raid.
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Me to my son: "I hate transcribing days. Hours of having to listen to my grating voice."
My son: "Welcome to my life."
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Can't stop thinking about all these uni students. If I'd ended up away from home for the first time at 17, self-isolating amongst strangers + told I couldn't go home, even at the weekends, I'd have been a wreck.
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I hate the private likes cos: 1) Likes are a way of signalling support for people particularly if they’re having a hard time on here. 2) I’ve ended up following people & then befriending them because I notice they like the same things. 3) It’s a nice way to say a quiet “hi”.
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"But society is as poorly served by those who seek to dismiss the consequence of hate – lawful or otherwise – as nothing more than 'hurt feelings', or who amplify it in pursuit of their own agenda." My
@heraldscotland
column on the Hate Crime Act.
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Watching Diane Abbott stand up again & again & being ignored is devastating. The degree of contempt/racism/misogyny. How must it have felt to be treated as invisible when she was the topic of debate? And how much hypocrisy in pretending the safety of MPs is of paramount concern?
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This city of ours ♥️
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Went for a walk with my oldest and he said 'I thought you'd like to go to see the messages for Sarah on the park gates' and when we got there he'd brought a ribbon for us to tie and I am very grateful.
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FFS: imagine watching all the anger that has played out today - all the hurt and the resignations and the explanations about what it means for women - and then writing this.
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Ruth "I'm a feminist" Davidson. You would never hear either Nicola Sturgeon or Kezia Dugdale speaking about a female political rival in those terms.
Ruth Davidson: voters now call Nicola Sturgeon 'that f***ing woman'
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Hoping all those who saw Ruth as "authentic" and "a different kind of Tory" have had their eyes well and truly opened.
.
@RuthDavidsonMSP
has confirmed she would canvas on the doorstep for
@BorisJohnson
if he becomes Prime Minister, despite previously being one of his sharpest critics.
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Still feel the Named Person provision was sabotaged for political reasons. Sure there were issues, but the broad principle was good. In a better country maybe parties could've collaborated to produce something workable instead of undermining the policy to the point of no return.
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Bit of an odd move for the Tories to press ahead with a Vote of No Confidence they can't win - just makes them look desperate surely.
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Broke the mind-boggling news that "outwith" is a Scottish word to my middle son. Truly a rite of passage.
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Just heard Sajid Javid boast about taking control of the so-called Channel migrant crisis as if he was organising the Dunkirk evacuation. Fuxache, what a country.
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This is my last
@scotonsunday
column. After more than 20 years - or approx 1m words - I have decided to take a break from weekly opinion writing.
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Here's my exclusive in-depth
@scotonsunday
interview with Nicola Sturgeon to mark her 50th birthday. We talked about the pandemic, party unity, resilience and approaching the menopause with trepidation.
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Had an alcohol-free night last night followed by eight hours sleep, and a banging headache all day. Rest assured that's a mistake I will not be repeating.
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Top parental tip. Don't encourage your kids to debate with you, particularly about politics. They will become really good at it and then life is fecking exhausting.
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Guys who want to know how to be better feminist allies should take a look at how much women love Andy Murray.
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My column on the killing of Natalie Connolly, the obsession with Jeremy Corbyn's alleged "stupid woman" comment and how sexism is often co-opted as a cause by men with their own agenda. In
@scotonsunday
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Hmm - is that the same Gordon Parks, who, in 2013, said the SFA shouldn't spend £1.2m a year on "a ladies version of a game played in men's shorts"? And called investment in grassroots initiatives "PC equality propaganda."
Nicola Sturgeon deserves zero credit for success of Shelley Kerr's World Cup heroes - Gordon Parks
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It's impossible to get your head round. How can people look at what Boris Johnson is and does and support him in these numbers? And what does the future hold if a man who refuses all scrutiny is given carte blanche over our lives?
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So I inadvertently bought my youngest boxer shorts with a special pouch for smuggling drugs into festivals and I don’t think the older two will ever stop laughing.
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Here is my
@scotonsunday
column on the fall-out from the Salmond trial and the need to reclaim the grassroots of the Yes movement from the conspiracy theorists.
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I understand the economic arguments but on a visceral, human, exhausted level I just can’t get my head round how Edinburgh Hogmanay can go ahead while some of us are being guilt-tripped out of seeing a couple of pals.
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I do worry all these "people are seeing the benefits of working from home" posts are going to be used to justify not reopening offices. There are pluses, but it's harder to separate your working + non-working life. I'm not sure that will be great for mental health.
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It's nothing in the greater scheme of things, but still a nice morale boost to discover I've won the features writer category at the
@ScotPressAwards
. Congratulations to
@wornoutmumhack
who won the Nicola Barry award and
@Mel_ReidTimes
who won columnist. Both brilliant writers.
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This is so sad and so unnecessary - a tiny life lost to assuage public opinion and boost the Home Secretary's career.
The baby of Shamima Begum - the teenager who fled London to join the Islamic State group - has died, a Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman says
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My son is reading Norman MacCaig poems for his prelims and isn't this one lovely?
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My column on Windrush, the rape clause, Ruth Davidson and the moral bankruptcy of a zombie government.
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In my long-read written after Alex Salmond's acquittal on all charges, I wrote: "It is clear [he] is on the warpath. The question is how far will he go? Is he willing to set fire to the house he built, just to watch his enemies burn?" I guess this is the day of reckoning.
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It's astonishing now to think Ed Miliband's political ambitions were upended by one photograph of him eating a bacon sandwich.
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This has been the most emotional week of my professional life for many reasons. It is an utter privilege to be a journalist. I never want to do anything else. But there are so many talented writers in Scotland. I just wish there were more resources and platforms for everyone. X
The award for Feature Writer of the Year goes to
@DaniGaravelli1
of Scotland on Sunday and Tortoise.
@BrokerJonathan
of the Scottish Daily Mail is runner up.
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My God, this lying/innuendo is never going to end. I was 15 days in court, not 8, plus 3 prelim hearings, many interviews before + after, 3 days to write + yes, Tortoise paid for all that (2nd legalling done by SoS). Why would anyone be surprised at me being paid to do my job?
Legaling a piece is expensive. Legaling a piece several times is very expensive.
8 days of Dani Garavelli in court. Then interviews with 5 discredited accusers, say 3 days to write it up.
Who paid for all this, and why, I wondered. Answer is not just Tortoise.
My blog tomorrow
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And also about the likes of Piers Morgan who think only men deserve to own their success.
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My dad: a low-skilled worker and a better man than Boris Johnson will ever be.
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.
@STVKathryn
showing everyone how it should be done.
Boris Johnson defends Universal Credit cut whilst handing peerage to Tory donor.
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The two complainers initially declined to give evidence to the committee because they had witnessed the earlier leaks and didn't trust members to make their welfare a priority...
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Can we stop talking about Corbyn's "stupid woman" comment, please? It's odious, but it's a distraction from other more important things. Like the end of free movement and the refusal to recognise the value of/need for immigration.
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As for the SNP's success, I'm glad for it, but I never, never wanted our independence to be carved out if other people's misery.
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I am beyond happy to have won the inaugural Anne Brown Essay Prize which is providing a brilliant and much-needed forum for long-form non-fiction. I can’t wait to read the other essays. Congratulations to
@jemma_tweets
who was commended.
@WigtownBookFest
The winner of the inaugural Anne Brown Essay Prize is
@DaniGaravelli1
.
@jemma_tweets
receives a commendation. Congratulations to them both and to all the other writers on a consistently excellent shortlist.
#Wigtown
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Gonna miss Love Island and that fleeting thrill that comes from seeing myself trending and wondering what I've been up to.
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This is my
@LRB
long-read on the fall-out from the Salmond allegations and everything that followed: the impact on the complainers, the party, the independence movement and all women who have suffered harassment.
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Can't believe it's taken 23 years for my kids to learn that life is mostly hope, bravado, hope, bravado, crushing disappointment.
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One of the more self-indulgent sorrows of the current crisis is watching EU countries unite and not being part of it. Sick of being ashamed of the UK.
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Football needs to sort its priorities out pronto. What kind of message is this especially after the events of the weekend?
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This criticism of the Sunday Times piece - "Oh, we knew that already" - is misplaced. We knew it instinctively, and we had some evidence of course, but what good journalism does is to pin it down, to lay out every detail out so there is no mistake, no wriggling off the hook.
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Realise this has been talked about all day but it really is shocking that the framing + leaking of the Grenfell report puts all the emphasis on fire brigade failings. At every stage, blame has been deflected from the gov + many journalists seem willing to go along with this.
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Going to log off for a while now as I have work to do, but one thing that intrigues me is the way in which people will say: "But it's worse in England," as if injustices inflicted on English kids alleviate damage done here.
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I think I preferred it when it was our failure to qualify that embarrassed us.
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The unstoppable rise of women's football in Scotland as the men's game struggles on and off the field. My feature for
@scotonsunday
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The day the Labour MPs came North was the day I decided I was definitely voting Yes.
#Indyref
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Because you have to tweet the Crocodile Rock if you go to Millport-it’s the actual law.
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So weird to hear the FM having to defend *not* intervening.
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I tried to thank everyone individually for tweeting my AS trial piece yesterday, and for kind comments, but realise I failed miserably, so this is just a general tweet to express my gratitude for all the kind messages.
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Still feeling the aftershocks of the election, my
@scotonsunday
column makes the case for compassion as an act of rebellion.
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"What tilts the balance towards accepting the First Minister’s account for me is I find it difficult to
think of any convincing reason why if she had in fact recalled the meeting she would have deliberately concealed it while disclosing all the conversations she
had had with AS]"
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On International Women's Day, I spoke to Claire Mitchell, the Siouxsie-loving QC campaigning to right a great historic miscarriage of justice: the false accusation and execution of Scotland's "witches".
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How do you begin to change anything when these words can come out of a police and crime commissioner's mouth without him dying of shame? That's how entrenched the problem is.
Just when you think the absurdity of victim blaming could not possibly go any further, here is a Police Commissioner openly blaming Sarah Everard for what happened to her on BBC radio
#FixTheSystemNotTheWomen
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"Kavanaugh was the one who became hysterical, but he doesn't possess a uterus so let's just call it a display of raw emotion." My
@scotonsunday
column on double standards and Christine Blasey Ford.
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The Met is utterly dysfunctional - an embarrassment of a police force. The scandals are just piling up and - like Johnson - Cressida Dick doesn't appear the least bit ashamed.
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For all the vitriol of royal commentators, it’s racism in self-denial that has driven the Sussexes abroad. My
@scotonsunday
column.
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“I put my shoes on and sprinted out. I just thought: ‘You’re not going to do that in front of me.’ There is due process and this is not it.” Terrific report by
@libbybrooks
on the community that stood its ground in Pollokshields
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Do you know what I miss? People lifting the phone. I mean professionally not personally. Some days it feels like endless email exchanges stretching over hours to resolve stuff that could have been sorted out in a three minute conversation.
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@toadmeister
@emmavj
Jeezo - how many times? Women aren't attracted to low-paying jobs. The jobs are low-paying because they have traditionally attracted women.
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In a cafe yesterday, I was served by a lad who'd been about to get his acting break when the pandemic struck + the play was cancelled. He said he was reading lots + had just discovered Ingmar Bergman. Don't know why I'm recounting this, other than, please stop dissing young folk.
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Lost track of the number of times I've said this, but Andy Murray is the best sporting role model you could ask for.
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"Inside, stalls offer faux German market wares: snowman snow globes & fudge that looks as if it has been lying in state since the death of Queen Victoria." My
@heraldscotland
column on the mess of WinterFest & the commercialisation of our civic spaces.
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So the drug deaths figures for 2019 are as bad as anticipated- a governmental failure with a catastrophic human cost. It’s a national emergency. Treat it, fund it as such. And stop passing the buck.
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I really didn't want to respond to the backlash, but it is difficult when you are being traduced to just sit back and take it. My piece has been legalled several times and I have been assured there is nothing in it that constitutes a contempt of court.
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Dead chuffed. Thanks for all the kind messages. x
Feature Writer of the Year, sponsored by our venue tonight
@DTGlasgowCtrl
– our runner up tonight is
@PeterAlanRoss
. The winner tonight for Feature Writer is
@DaniGaravelli1
– Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman
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Been thinking about my dad a lot because Brexit. Here's a bit of something he wrote about his journey to Scotland when he was trying to perfect his English. Solidarity to all immigrants who left home with hope in their hearts + are now having to prove themselves all over again.
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Have decided each of my kids has to cook one meal a week. This is proving interesting but expensive. "I need sirloin steak for this recipe." Do you, aye?
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There’s something profoundly unGlaswegian about the fencing off of George Square at Christmas, isn’t there?
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Whenever I feel I might lose my bearings over the Salmond affair - and I often do - I focus on this: the first two complaints were brought by non party political civil servants one of whom the former FM had already apologised to.
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Imagine a world where Kanye West was kept for 13 years under his mother's conservatorship, forced to perform and denied his basic reproductive rights.
Britney Spears conservatorship: Judge denies singer's request to remove her father Jamie Spears as her conservator
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