Joan McAlpine
@JoanMcAlpine
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I live by the Solway, work in heritage and write. Been a newspaper editor, columnist and MSP. Always a mother, daughter, sister. Twitter account personal.
Scotland 🏴
Joined November 2008
RT @WingsScotland: Queen's Park haven't knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup since 1882, 130 years before Rangers were even formed.
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Just came in from an afternoon gardening to this interesting turn of events in Scottish football 😂
🔚 FULLTIME 🔵 Rangers FC 0-1 Queens Park ⚪️ ▪️ Queen's Park knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup 2024/2025 in an upset for the ages #ScottishCup #RANQUE
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Brilliant from Sonia…
Female colleagues should never be expected to share changing facilities with male colleagues regardless of how they identify. It's wrong, and unlawful. But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife.
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This piece is spot on, worth the subscription!
Today’s @thetimes column: when the left insists on seeing the world as they want it to be rather than as it is, they leave the door wide open for demagogues like Trump and Musk
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RT @BevJacksonAuth: I have sat on this story for a long time. It’s about PIE and the contempt for child safeguarding in the 1970s and today…
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RT @jk_rowling: This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideol…
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RT @NDSPolicyGroup: Our open letter supported by 62 groups across UK representing interests of disabled people highlights need for cautious…
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RT @mbmpolicy: Arguments being made in court on behalf of NHS Fife this week raise serious questions about what rights NHS Fife believes fe…
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RT @MForstater: I was pleased to give evidence in Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife today. The time will come when women don't have to defend thems…
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My recent column 👇 in @Sunday_Post examined class bias in treatment of nurse Sandie Peggie..the tribunal opened today. Privileged doc “self-identified” as woman & immediately used female changing room. Working class nurse expressed discomfort & was suspended without question!
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Interesting 🧵. It’s also great for cleaning the sink!
The most versatile medicine in the world: Baking Soda. They want you to think it's just for baking... But this simple ingredient can do amazing things for the human body. 8 ways to use baking soda to enhance your health:
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RT @LucyHunterB: It’s about sex. But today’s proceedings in Dundee are very obviously about class, too. Actual intersectionality. Scotland…
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@anyabike @MForstater @LilyLilyMaynard @kiritunks @JayneEEgerton @K_IngalaSmith @saltwithoutpepa What a great day it was. Especially meeting so many in person for the first time. We can look back and say we were there, and we were right to make a stand, whatever the personal cost. We have won so many hearts and minds since then, even though there remains much to do
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Delighted to have contributed to this book - there’s a time limited Kindle offer this month
Delighted that ahead of publication of the paperback edition on 6 March, the ebook of #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht is available at a discount to Kindle UK members throughout February - at £5.99, grab it while you can!
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All set to welcome guests to our community Burns supper today as part of @BigBurnsSupper in the intimate surrounds of the 1788 Burns built cottage - Jean likely cooked haggis on that stove! #savethehomeofauldlangsyne @HeritageFundSCO
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What Marie said! 👇
Ayrshire’s finest @NaeFear and @AlexNeilSNP . Always great to catch up with my fellow Ayrshire friends in Edinburgh. Love talking about politics and the economy from the 1960s until present . You canny beat listening to Jim’s days in Westminster and gathering knowledge . Fantastic stories on political giants from all sides of the political arena in bye gone days. They don’t make them like these two anymore.
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