Donna McLean
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Writer-Activist-Mum || MD ANT || *Notions* || Agent @gordonwise @cbgbooks || Words @guardian @bellacaledonia @PJOpinion || Memoir SMALL TOWN GIRL @Hodder_Studio
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Jess Phillips went to the 'front of the queue' in A&E - it's called being triaged - for two reasons only:
1. Breathing difficulties
2. Blue lips (hypoxia)
AS WOULD ANYONE ELSE PRESENTING WITH THESE SYMPTOMS
*If she genuinely made those statements, she's a bona-fide liability.
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What's her age got to do with it? She's fab. We've got a clapped out arsehole of a 57 year old in charge of ruining the country.
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Tom Leonard would have been 80 today. I think it's a day for this one.
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'When I arrived at Enniskillen police station to make the initial complaint I asked for a female officer and got a male. I was already nervous enough. Then when the PPS rejected my case, I felt hopeless.'
Solidarity with Nicola Gallagher
#Ibelieveher
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Sneak this out in the midst of sackings and reshuffles
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Full piece now available online. Thanks so much for kind words everyone (it's a wee bit scary)! x
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"When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law."
Bernadette Devlin explains British "democracy" to William Buckley in 1972:
"When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law."
Changing inconvenient laws to circumvent illegality has long been a British government tactic.
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Glasgow. How proudly antifascist.
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@LucyGoBag
Has he any idea how periods also affect the bladder and the bowel? Any understanding of bladder or bowel conditions? And has he any idea what a school toilet is actually like at lunchtime?
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The kid wants to know what I wore in the late 80s/ early 90s. I'm struggling to describe a particular aesthetic. Charity shop x Levis x Flip Vintage x 1950s noir x Madonna. Did we wear labels? I don't remember any. I spent all my hard earned cash on books and perfume.
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It's far too late now, but can we talk sometime about how and why the same people who demonise the left here are celebrating a left victory in France?
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Hi
@RefugeCharity
I'm a survivor of DA and I think Fiona Bruce's perception of Stanley Johnson's violence against his wife negates her being an ally.
Fiona Bruce either didn't know, or lied. Either way, she's an ambassador for
@RefugeCharity
and should be told domestic violence is rarely a "one off".
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'Midlife is often particularly poignant for women with daughters as they are forced to watch them blossom while their own bloom fades.'
OH FFS, STOP IT
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After five years of feeling compelled to hide my identity, I've made the decision to reclaim my name from those who stole my trust and my life. Truth is power.
Love and solidarity ❤
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@FernRiddell
Not even their genes - their hormones! Hormone levels are so variable, and 5 - 10% of women have hyperandrogenism. It's pretty common.
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Council houses.
What would you bring back from the good old days to help society today? I would like to start with manners...
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Can you apologise for the inclusion of the actual child rapist and the actual genocidal nation, please
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@fliceverett
FFS. A brilliant programme becomes a denial of systemic racism. How does this arsehole woman still get paid to write a column?
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'A humdinger of a review from Wall Street Journal made comparisons with Franz Kafka and Henry James, but this razor-sharp satire has barely been mentioned in the UK press. “Other writers don’t even know I have a book out,” he says. “Imagine, no reviews.”'
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"Keep them off British soil. Send them to Orkney." Lee Anderson is like the worst pub bore you've ever met, but with shit geography and extra racism.
Asylum seekers should be sent to Orkney or some other remote island in Scotland, says Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson.
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Sorry not sorry, final charity shop find of the night. Yay or nay?
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Happy paperback publication day to moi! Love my title, glad I'm still a Small Town Grrrrl. ❤💛
#SmallTownGirl
#NaeHatersPlease
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Excited to share the cover of my book SMALL TOWN GIRL,
coming from
@Hodder_Studio
in March 2022. Love the design!
Available to pre-order here:
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There aren't many professions where you can have a false identity created by the state, armed with a fake birth certificate, driving licence and bank account, and use them to deceive women into abusive long-term sexual relationships
#spycops
"There aren’t many professions where from the minute you arrive at an incident, you are filmed and then critiqued by armchair commentators."
Commissioner defends officers after a weekend where too many were injured or faced abuse, online and in person.
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Gen X here. Moved to London in my twenties. Lived for free in a squat. Got a job. Got a better job. Got paid to study. Had a feckin ball. Gen Z kids have none of the advantages that I had and wouldn't even understand the privileges that you've had, Ms Money-Funny.
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This puffin going for a walk is the best thing I've seen all week
To cheer everyone up, here's a little Puffin going for a little walk. 😊😍🐦❤️
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"As Truman Capote wrote of something else, this isn’t writing, it’s typing. Sometimes Moran doesn’t even type. She cuts and pastes."
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Jean Charles de Menezes did *not* run. The Metropolitan police armed unit opened fire on him at close range. Jean Charles was pinned down on a seat on an underground train. Let's all make sure we share the truth.
#JeanCharlesDeMenezes
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Council houses
Ok. Let’s do this.
Instead of imperial measurements, what *should* we bring back?
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It's paperback publication week for Small Town Girl! Big love to all pals who've bought the book, come along to events and supported me over the last year. The best adventure ❤💛💃🏽🥂🍾
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Idles bore me beyond belief. Every song sounds the fckn same and they think they represent good masculinity. It's apolitical vanity at best.
#Glastonbury2024
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Imagine being a woman of any age and not giving a shite what anyone thinks
Imagine being a 62-year-old woman doing this and believing it's in any way appealing to anyone.
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📢 Can I please have a quick hands up on which of my lovely Twitter/ X pals have heard of Rose Reilly? Thx
@Donna__McLean
I had never heard of Rose until I read this.
A 54 year old Scottish football fan should have done before now.
Proves your point.
Nice one 👍
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This morning (before delivering our powerful opening statements) my legal team have to argue *again* for my right to name the man who abused me. There are no grounds for silencing me. This is all about social embarrassment. Wish me luck! x
#spycops
#SpycopsInquiry
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RIP to the finest poet, Shane MacGowan. Love to family and friends of the genius fella ❤️
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@LankumDublin
@LurigDramaCDall
"Coulter performed in an undemocratic South Africa in May 1983 and his name was included in the register of entertainers who travelled to that country by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, which was published in 1986."
Prick
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Stonehenge will be here long after we're all gone. This wouldn't have been my choice of action, but if you are more outraged by powder paint than decapitated babies, you exist in a moral vacuum.
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Shame on anyone from any party playing word games while children pick up pieces of their parents from the pavement
Andrew Gwynne explaining he doesnt support the SNP motion, which calls for an immediate ceasefire, because it doesn't say both sides should stop fighting
Of course Gwynne knows what the word ceasefire means. He's just playing games with words & treating us like fools.
Shameless
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I was fiercely loyal to Ken Stott, didn't get John Hannah in the role at all, but this new version of
#Rebus
is highly watchable. Younger Rebus, set in the present day, with lots of cultural reference points. If you know, you know. 4/5 from me.
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Happy birthday to me! Crazy couple of years, looking forward to a quiet life from now on ❤
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Music lessons were free in school. I played violin. The instrument was loaned free, too. (I was a free school meals kid). If access to the arts is our metric for a civilised society, we've zoomed backwards at a terrifying pace.
What working class kid in the 80s was playing flute and in a youth orchestra? Sorry lessons for instruments that require classical training COST MONEY.
Being comfortably lower middle class and comparing yourself to very rich kids does not make you working class.
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This is heartbreaking. Many of the responses directed at the Yousaf family are sickening. What a time we live in.
'My wife and I are sick with worry about whether or not, frankly, her parents, my in-laws, will survive or not'
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf tells reporters his parents in-law are 'trapped' in Gaza after visiting family
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Here's the stunning Robert Montgomery artwork I mentioned
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Birthday of best friend A, who died by suicide 3 yrs ago. Going to light a candle and play some tunes later. And pour a Prosecco, darling, as A never turned up empty-handed. She sent a postcard from every trip and never forgot the kids' birthday. Tell folk that you love them 🖤🖤
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'Champion boxer David Haye described Dizzee Rascal as “calm and collected” in evidence at the musician’s assault trial.'
Yeah, perpetrators of abuse often are... with other men.
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I'm procrastinating hugely today and currently racking my brain to find a better short story as song. Pulp, Common People?
Just heard
@Squeezeofficial
‘s Up The Junction on the radio. Has there ever been a better short story in song form? I know Waterloo Sunset is the capital’s unofficial anthem but I think this might be the quintessential London song
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He was caught by a police sting. This was his SECOND attempt to rape a child. He's given a suspended sentence because...?
Sorry, let me get this right.
@PennyMordaunt
's brother gets 6 months suspended sentence for trying to meet a 14 year old girl for sex.
6 months. Suspended. He intended to rape a child (statutory).
SIX MONTHS.
SUSPENDED.
One rule for them.
As always.
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This is about as cool as you can look
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So much respect for Angelina Jolie and all that she does. Infuriates me that Pitt - like so many - gets off lightly (in every way).
Angelina Jolie speaking about domestic abuse and the failures of the family Court to address it, causing harm to child and parent victims.
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The
@GdnSaturday
has printed an extract from my book today (and there's a picture of me looking moody).
My jaw still drops every time I read your story
@Donna__McLean
. Great to read the extract in today’s
@guardian
.
@HodderPublicity
@HodderStudio
@CBGBooks
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He's not heard of Ireland or Bosnia. Terrible education these rich folks get.
#ICYMI
: Prince William said it's rather normal to see war and bloodshed in Africa and Asia but not Europe, during a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London today. "It's very alien to see this in Europe. We are all behind you," he told the volunteers there.
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My stepdad just got a job as a hospital porter. He's a glazier, he has plenty of customers... but he can't get the glass to do the jobs. They never warned us about that bit of
#Brexshit
did they? Anyway, I'm very proud of him and he'll be lovely with the patients ❤
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@katerhardy
I took two years off work as had twins (only get maternity leave for one baby, it's rubbish). My childcare would have taken up my entire salary. Moved to France for a year cos it was considerably cheaper than living in London! BTW, yer man there sets himself a hefty budget...
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"I could tell them how much I’ve spent on lawyers, or how much I’ve spent on therapy, or how much I’ve spent on dental work from grinding my teeth in my sleep, and how many hours I sleep, which is not many..."
Oh my 💔🔥
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I am so angry. SO angry. The disrespect is off the scale.
During today's
#PMQs
, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott who repeatedly stood to ask a question. Britain's first Black woman MP being disrespected in the House of Commons, as news emerged of the Tory Party's biggest donor saying she should be shot, is most concerning.
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Oh no. RIP
#BernardHill
🖤
It’s with great sadness that I note the death of Bernard Hill. We worked together in John Paul George Ringo and Bert, Willy Russell marvellous show 1974-1975. A really marvellous actor. It was a privilege to have crossed paths with him. RIP Benny x
#bernardhill
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"Investigations into sexual abuse at a notorious Belfast boys’ home were allegedly blocked in order to use a paedophile housemaster as an MI5 agent, the High Court has heard."
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This is unconscionable
BREAKING: Keir Starmer is set to order Labour MPs to ABSTAIN on the SNP's ceasefire motion tomorrow - because it accuses Israel of engaging in the 'collective punishment' of Palestinians.
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I wrote a piece for
@IndyVoices
about my friend Kate Wilson's monumental victory against the Met police and our collective experience within
@out_of_lives
of state-sponsored abuse. There are no bad apples - the whole orchard is rotten.
#spycops
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They bombed a refugee camp. A safe zone. They set it on fire, killing people in their sleep. This utter depravity is supported by the government. It's not the behaviour of our teenagers we need to worry about; it's the complicity of the UK in war crimes & the silence of so many.
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This is such a powerful and important poem. It hit me hard the first time I read it and it's doing the same tonight. Thinking of Avril and everyone who deserves to keep shining x
CW: domestic violence. Poem from my recent collection Panic Response about my chemistry teacher, Avril Brown, who was very kind to me and who deserves to keep shining. (Been talking about her owing to the misogynistic killings in Bushey, which is where she taught me.)
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Excited to share some good news!
"
@Hodder_Studio
is delighted to have a signed an original podcast and memoir from activist, writer, and key witness in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Donna McLean." Thank you
@HarrietPoland
and
@gordonwise
! ❤
#spycops
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Three years ago, on Bastille Day, I reclaimed my name. It's been one helluva journey since! ❤✊🏼
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Twenty people died in ONE nursing home in my small town. Their families couldn't visit them. The staff were utterly heroic. This lot, on the other hand, were total bastards.
🚨 | BREAKING: A first ever video of partygate has been leaked showing the Tories drinking, dancing and LAUGHING at breaking covid rules
“Are you filming this? As long as we’re not steaming that we’re like, bending the rules ahahah”
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Fascists are like domestic abusers - they come from every socio-economic background.
A company director sobbed in court on Tuesday, dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief, as he was told he would be remanded in custody for his alleged part in rioting in Middlesbrough on Sunday
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"I want to mourn her but also celebrate her because that’s what we do in Ireland... We celebrate our deaths. Yes, she was taken far too young but there’s so much to celebrate rather than talk about the negative aspects of her life."
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How is everyone coping with heart heaviness at the minute? I feel helpless/ hopeless 😔
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Local residents chase the fascists out of South Belfast. You love to see it.
#NoPasaran
Incredible ! Over 100 residents from lower Ormeau have intercepted the anti-immigration parade and chased them from the area. Chants of nazi scum
@BelTel
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'The three-day weekend at the beginning of May will include two grand processions, a religious service, a star-studded concert held at Windsor Castle, and a day of volunteering.'
I'll volunteer to make a few
#AbolishTheMonarchy
t-shirts
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Post an album without a bad song on it
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The Met had this information three days before he killed Sarah Everard.
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This makes me furious. When will judges - and everyone else in the CJS - realise that a woman's job/ intelligence/ success/ friends have FUCK ALL to do with domestic abuse?
Manchester Crown Court’s Judge Richard Mansell would not jail her abuser as he concluded 'she was not vulnerable enough because she was "an intelligent woman with a network of friends" and a university degree.' ' please sign 🙏 thank you
@Rachel_SUTDA
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Dressing in your 50s, the couldn't give a f*ck edit
Let me guess, lots of skinny attractive grey haired women in tailored suits….
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Five years ago today, my beloved friend Ali died by suicide. We met in 2000 and worked together in Camberwell. I'm making a mental list of all the amazing things we did over the years (a Maya Angelou lecture for starters). She was generous, smart and so much fun. I miss her 🖤
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Ridiculously in love with being in Paris again - first time in 8 years!
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Scumford and Sons
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Public service. Give him a medal, buy him a pint ✊🏼
🚨 EXCL: A Royal Mail postman has been caught writing 'racists' on Reform UK leaflets
A RM spokesman said: "We are aware of the video and are conducting immediate enquiries. It’s our priority to ensure all candidate mail is delivered with the same, high level of service."
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Oh, shut up with this fine balance nonsense. I refuse to listen to this bollox from people who've never gone to bed with a hungry belly/ had their meter run out of electricity money.
Getting welfare right requires a fine balance. Be too generous and people don’t bother trying to work; not generous enough, and poverty rises.
But Britain’s child poverty strategy has to be more ambitious than just ending the two child limit
@thetimes
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He was jailed for breaching a court order. Stop spreading misinformation.
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You literally spied on them.
These are appalling words from Emergency Services colleagues. Police and firefighters often work side by side in testing environments - they should be showing solidarity. For the FBU to make such a sweeping statement without being aware of the facts is embarrassingly out of touch
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