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Columnist and theatre critic writing mainly for The Scotsman, living and working in Edinburgh and around Scotland. Interested democracy, human rights.
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I’m thinking of just tweeting this every time I see any news story about the UK’s current economic situation that fails to mention the B word!
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@ThomasJTobin1
Here's an idea. How about a century or two of private prayer, reflection and repentance, before your discredited organisation utters another word about how other people should conduct their lives?
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@GerryHassan
I don't think this is a real debate at all. If the First Minister detests Tories, she shares the sentiments of a good 2/3 of Scots. And if they don't like being detested, they should stop embracing sadistic policies that punish the vulnerable. End of story.
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@ShehabKhan
@BorisJohnson
It’s not incredible that she’s not clapping. It’s incredible that the rest of them are. If he’s such a great guy, why on earth are we having this leadership election?
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Anyone else in Scotland sick of C-virus news dominated by Johnson & co, & full of detail that applies only to NHS England? Where do I go
@BBCScotland
or wherever for steady stream of news about C-virus in Scotland? I mean sustained daytime coverage with no crap music & lots news.
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@katherineschof8
Yes, of course, as a childless person I’m completely unable to understand this sculpture. What a pointlessly hurtful thing to say - yet people talk like this about the childless all the time...
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@frankieboyle
@molyneux_msj
Staggering. Worst daily death totals in Europe, & they're not even complete. When Italy was at this stage, it was portrayed to us as a country in meltdown. Yet here, it's all jolly tales of how Boris has "taken one for the team", & how soon it might all be over. Madness.
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Fabulous picture of an icy Discovery in Dundee, looking as if it has returned to the Antarctic again! Does anyone know who took it?
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Stop this shame, now. And stop, for heaven's sake, voting Tory. Why do people support this terrible government?
Grandmother Irene Clennell has been deported today with just £12 in her pocket after nearly 30 years in Britain
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@BBCLauraKT
Please note - in Scotland, the water supply has never left public ownership. I believe the same is true of Wales. So can we stop saying ‘UK’ in this context? It’s only England.
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I'd like to see every producing company in Scotland do this - produce a count of freelances who have been involved in making their shows over the last 18 or 24 months. And then also maybe make a pledge to share with them any bailout money received.
In last 18 months Vanishing Point employed 88 people to make 4 shows for audiences across Scotland and internationally. 83 OF THESE PEOPLE WERE FREELANCE/SELF-EMPLOYED. Arts and culture is BUILT on self-employed workers
@FreelancersMake
#freelancersmaketheatrework
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If the CCA goes, after the shocking closure of the Arches, Glasgow can wave a last goodbye the huge reputation as a City of Culture it won in 1990. Truly hope this great arts centre, founded by the late Tom McGrath & others as the Third Eye, can be saved.
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New Dundee railway station tonight, in the rain. It’s strange how these huge positive changes in our infrastructure sometimes go largely unrecorded, particularly when they have to do with public transport…
@ScotRail
@NetworkRailSCOT
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I know it’s cold & nasty, but we need to vote the hell out of this today, Scotland. Vote, vote, vote, and never let them say we didn’t care about our future... 🗳
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Angela Merkel just superb here, in her explicit response to Trump election, What an underrated leader she is.
Perfectly worded statement from Angela Merkel.
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Urgent,
@BBCRadio4
. Is BBC You and Yours really going to do a whole show on public transport without mentioning Scotland’s experiment in scrapping peak train fares, which started yesterday? Funded by
@scotgov
for a test period, I think 6 months.
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@paulhutcheon
Because universal benefits are the essential glue of society, and stop social benefits from becoming a ghetto for the poor and voiceless. All the world’s most successful societies, in terms of wealth, wellbeing and human development, have high levels of universal benefits.
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OK, can anyone explain to me why we are having so much high-profile, detailed criticism of the Hate Crime Act this week, when it is about to be implemented, & not during the long period when it was under consideration at Holyrood. Were people & orgs unaware of it? Or what?
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@bellacaledonia
I do find it funny that unionist pundits demand such utter clarity from
@Scotgov
about the detail of how indy would work, while tolerating a UK govt that gave us Brexit with no plan at all, and can barely sustain coherent policy on anything from one week to the next.
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This is truly shocking, and heartbreaking. Time to try everything to save our beautiful world. This is why I so strongly support the peaceful civil disobedience of Extinction Rebellion - conventional campaigning has not worked, and this is the result. 😢
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Anyone else totally depressed by the ease with which Tories can push blatant distraction stories like Starmer’s curry to the top of the UK news agenda? You’d think there would still be someone,
@BBC
or police or wherever, willing to tell them to stuff it. But it seems not.
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Today
@TheScotsman
: In an age of increasingly toxic & irrational right-wing leadership,
@NicolaSturgeon
at least talked highly articulate social democratic sense about the challenges facing Scotland & the world. Small wonder Scots kept voting for her...
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@BBCandrewkerr
@PeterArnottGlas
@RuthDavidsonMSP
@GMB
@NicolaSturgeon
@reallorraine
She really can't do anything right for these people, can she? Announce things an hour before Johnson and she's 'staging a coup', announce them later and she's like a bad TV channel. This really is drivel from
@RuthDavidsonMSP
, & irresponsible too, during a public health crisis.
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Final thought before bed (cannot listen to any more crowing Tories). Nicholas Soames has just said, unchallenged, that Johnson's electoral success, from north to south, makes him a great "one nation" Tory. So from now on, the nation is England; & Scotland is free to go. Right?
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A wonderful day at my alma mater St Andrews, 45 years after I first graduated! Overwhelmed by the welcome from the Principal Sally Mapstone,
@ZinnieH
, and everyone at
@univofstandrews
. I feel so fortunate, so proud, and so honoured.
Introducing Dr Joyce McMillan, who received an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews university today. Congratulations Joyce! Very well deserved.
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@GrayInGlasgow
It’s not just that it’s sneering, hostile, entitled etc., though. It’s that it’s so desperately ill-informed. Who briefs these people on Scotland? Or do they care so little they think they don’t need briefing? Very sad days indeed, for what was once a great UK-wide party.
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@KennyFarq
Because Brexit is a very bad, reactionary idea, whereas Scottish independence, properly negotiated, is a good and progressive idea, particularly when it is motivated by a desire to get away from Brexit. Next!
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Look at this lovely good news story about Scotland's much-criticised education system. Must be doing something right!
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This should be a huge scandal. At the height of the epidemic, UK ministers were understating the number of deaths by up to 500 a day. And unlike
@NicolaSturgeon
, they never made it clear, as she does daily, that the figures they were giving only represented part of the story.
Nearly 1,500 deaths in one day: UK ministers accused of downplaying Covid-19 peak
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Wondering why no-one is grilling
@scotgov
over this terrible surge of Covid cases in Scotland. With 8% of the UK population, we're now at 18% of cases & rising. Even if most are young men, what about long Covid? & how will this not encourage more dangerous variants? Just asking..
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Very good on that Supreme Court moment, from Mr O’Brien!
#Scotland
must be the first country in history to have economic sanctions imposed on it by its so-called union ally
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This is one of the most shameful posts the House of Commons information service has ever had to make. What a pathetic bunch of right-wing Johnson yes-men and women the new parliamentary Tory Party is. Toadies and cowards the lot of them.
MPs have voted against Amendment 4 to Clause 37 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, by 348 votes to 252.
This would have protected the right for unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with their family after Brexit.
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My
@TheScotsman
Scotsman obituary of the legendary Glasgow actress Ida Schuster, who died last month aged 101.
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Today
@TheScotsman
: Supreme Court ruling casts Scotland into a strange legal limbo, recognised as a historic nation but, because not a colony, denied any intrinsic right to determine its own fate; a position that seems unsustainable, in the 21st century.
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This is not on. Will the UK opposition parties at Westminster speak out against this? Have they done so?
Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a
@JustStop_Oil
supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my
@BECTU
press accreditation visible around my neck.
Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".
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This is tremendous news, if the investment can be sustained over the next 5 years. More details needed, of course, but at last, what looks like a shift in the right direction for Scotland’s brilliant and hard-working makers and creators across all the arts! 🎉🙏 🎭 🎶 📚 🌿
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I just want to utter a batsqueak of protest against all the ludicrous whingeing I'm seeing here about 2 days of much-needed rain in Scotland, after a very dry spring and scary Easter heatwave. Suck it up, folks - billions on this warming, drying planet would kill for the chance.
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Plenty of appalling things about Andrew's account of his friendship with Epstein. But for me, the absolute killer was Maitlis's final question. "Anything else you'd like to say?" Open invitation to express some proper feeling for the victims. Answer, "No, I don't think so."
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Scenes at Waverley, with hundreds of people - with children, babies, heavy luggage - trying to board the mid-morning
@ScotRail
Ezpress to Inverness, on Bank Holiday Saturday, only to find it’s a tiny, grossly overloaded 3 coach turbo. More on at H’mkt. What were you thinking?
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@ScotNational
D'you know, I think
@scotgov
should completely ignore this, and buy whatever it thinks fit and can afford. Sounds like yet more UK gov. press conference nonsense.
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@KennyFarq
All our leaders are nationalists these days, Kenny. Didn’t you see all those Union jacks at the Labour conference? And if you’re looking for a destructive, reactionary form of nationalism, recent history suggests the British variety beats the Scottish, hands down. 🇬🇧 🏴 🇪🇺
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Reunited with my lovely folding stick thanks to kind neighbour Brian
@BKDundee
, who spotted the stick in London Road Gdns. yesterday, and recognised it from my tweet! Thank you everyone for helpful suggestions etc., and let’s for once celebrate the positive power of Twitter!
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@ruth_wishart
I know. There’s a journalist on here giving
@Scotgov
hell for spending £750,000 maintaining St Andrew’s House, huge landmark building in Edinburgh, “during a cost of living crisis”. Scots will pay at least 1000 times that for our share of the £15 billion Westminster refurb.
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Today’s
@TheScotsman
column, which aims to kick yesterday’s mischief-making about the franchise for any future Scottish indyref out of the constitutional ballpark, for good.
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@paulhutcheon
Or, to put it bluntly, because most Scots are not Tories, and would prefer a Nordic future to an American one.
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I really have had it up to here with theatre bars that, since Covid, won’t serve you a tea or coffee before the show. Not everyone wants to go into a show half cut, and winter nights are cold. Someone
@traversetheatre
just told me they stop serving hot drinks at 5.00 pm. 🤔
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Portobello beach, late autumn afternoon. How I love this city….
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Just noticed, on my way down the road, that Mather’s bar in Broughton Street has been restored to its old name, after being weirdly known as The Empress of Broughton for a few years. Not all change is for the worse!
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@Sir_David_King
@Katheri48033429
And if I understand anything about the way British politics works, everyone in that room would have been subtly deferring to Cummings, because of his closeness to a newly-elected Prime Minister with a large majority. No-one would have wanted to say no to him.
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The Cummings narrative doesn't make sense even in its own terms. If he wasn't ill when they left London, why did they leave? What was the childcare problem? And if he and his wife were both ill, how could it be right or responsible for them to leave home at all? Utter gibberish.
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@thoughtland
It was Darling who first drove me into the "yes" camp, with an absolutely misrerabilist speech he made in Edinburgh in favour of the Union. Could not produce a single positive argument for it. Nothing but establishment scaremongering about any possible alternative.
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It’s a beautiful, cool, bright, breezy August day in Edinburgh, and the atmosphere out there on the first Saturday of
@edfringe
is just wonderful. I know the event has problems, but I’ve never seen so many people look so happy, & so obviously delighted to be where they are. 🥲☺️
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Phew! This is a not a huge amount, but such a welcome signal of understanding and real support from
@scotgov
. Thank you,
@FionaHyslop
, for making this possible, in such tough times.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Scotland’s theatres & music venues have been thrown a £10m lifeline to help them “weather the storm” of the coronavirus pandemic & lift “the threat of insolvency.”
Full details & reaction:
@TheScotsman
@scotsman_arts
#scotculture
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After a fiercely busy week, here I am on the beautiful Clyde coast getting ready for tomorrow morning’s opening session of the Cove & Kilcreggan Book Festival, when I interview
@NicolaSturgeon
about her life as a reader, and her favourite books. Looking forward to it!
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Look at this. No train to Glasgow at all for hours in the middle of the evening. I don' t care who's to blame, this has to end. It's absolutely shaming, for any country that aspires to be part of the 21st century world, and to meet green goals.
@GASPurves
@broadcastscot
@Hugh_Stewart13
@joycemcm
@ScotRail
Departure board at Waverley 20.50 last night. Shocker.😳
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Well, thanks for your wisdom to all the men sneering at this ban. For the record, alcohol on trains at weekends is a nightmare for women travelling alone, particularly on a work trip. I/2
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Thank you to everyone
@CityCabsEdin
& elsewhere who helped when I left my laptop in a cab last week! Today, I collected it from
@policescotland
at Fettes - it had been handed in on Friday, & just slowly made its way through the system. Reunited, and it feels so good! 💕💕
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@KennyFarq
It is interesting framing, but people who have observed Nicola Sturgeon's career know it's not true. Her social democratic instincts are the same as Sarwar's - it's just that she thinks the UK state has gone beyond repair, in its long flirtation with neoliberal extremism.
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Lovely late afternoon walk round N. Edin. But look at this view-blocking, half-occupied monstrosity at Canonmills, where there was once a thriving low rise veggie restaurant; surely among worst Edinburgh planning decisions ever. Not
@Edinburgh_CC
, btw,
@Scotgov
reporter.
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850 daily deaths in the UK - excluding those not in hospitals and not identified by test - just described on
@BBCRadio4
as "on the high side". Yet similar sky-high daily death tolls in Spain and Italy where portrayed to us as apocalyptic. Am I right to be shocked?
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Shocked,
@NicolaSturgeon
, even after 40 yrs. in NUJ freelance sector. Up to £2,500 a month as of right for employees, while self-employed are treated as claimants, and forced through UC system for under £400 a month? This is staggeringly unfair, and cannot stand. 1/2
Everything you are watching, reading & listening to to get you through this pandemic has been made by freelancers.
Self employed people are not being supported in the package announced yesterday by the government.
@NicolaSturgeon
we need more support than £94 pw universal credit.
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Please check for me, as i'm cross-eyed after a long day's work. Has
@RozFoyer
@ScottishTUC
- whom I much admire, & with whom I strongly agree about Starmer & the 2-child cap - actually written this whole piece without mentioning the £25 a week Scottish Child Payment? Surely not..
'Two-child benefit cap is actively harming the children of Scotland'
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This is great. A wee glimmer of good news in a dreadfully depressing world, and a wise response to a well fought campaign. It's still only a standstill, in fiercely inflationary times, but it's something. Thank you,
@JohnSwinney
and
@AngusRobertson
.
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Yes we can. As one international expert put it, Scotland has the potential to be the Saudi Arabia of renewables - and with human rights, too!
@ScotLINK
A tidal turbine array in the north of Scotland set a new world record for generating power and exporting it into the national grid.
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A column suggesting that SNP supporters who want
@NicolaSturgeon
to take rapid unilateral action towards independence, during the current Brexit meltdown, should cool the jets, and keep working towards the day when a substantial majority of Scots agree with them.
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@bellacaledonia
I know. It’s weird. And if we had voted for indy in 2014, we would almost certainly have been spared most of this. Heartbreaking.
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First thoughts for
@TheScotsman
on the great John Byrne, following his death yesterday at the age of 83. His brilliance, wit, kindness, and magnificent sense of style will never be forgotten.
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A sad picture taken in today's winter sunshine of a shuttered Inverleith House, until its abrupt closure in 2016 one of the world's most beautiful and beloved galleries of modern art. I beg Cabinet Secretaries
@fionahyslop
and
@strathearnrose
to act, and to give it back to us.
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Let's use this year to value what we've had, to address problems, & to make Edinburgh in August even better in future, for everyone. Meanwhile, my thoughts are with everyone whose plans & work for 2020 have been shattered by this. Onward, dear friends, and here's to 2021.. 2/2
We are deeply saddened to announce that this year's August Festivals,
@EdArtFest
@edfringe
@edbookfest
@edintfest
&
@EdinburghTattoo
are not happening as planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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@carolvorders
@JolyonMaugham
@GregHands
What’s wrong with accepting money from a Just Stop Oil backer, if Labour also wants to stop oil? The Tories are always taking money from “Just Make The Rich Richer” backers who agree with their policy of making the rich richer, at any cost…
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@ScotNational
I suppose this means that the Danish and Swedish governments are bywords for incompetence, too. Or are we, once again, in the grip of classic Unionist negative exceptionalism, when it comes to "wee, stupid" Scotland? So tired of this.
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Today
@TheScotsman
: the PM's conference speech echoed Alex Salmond's 2013 phrase "a Saudi Arabia of renewables" - only for him, it's the whole UK, powered by Scotland's vast green energy potential. So do we accept this - or finally take the Norway route?
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After the shocking
@scotgov
U-turn on applying the 10%
@CreativeScots
budget cut they had previously reversed, here's my August column on what the cult of austerity is doing to our cultural life; and why
@Scotgov
can & should reverse this cut, right now.
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The wonderful Hillhead underground station mural, by the genius who wrote Poor Things, the late Alasdair Gray. Has anyone even mentioned his name, in relation to the film’s Venice win?
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@GordonAJohnston
@kacnutt
@ToniGiugliano
People have been telling Scots to wait for a better government at Westminster since 1979. For 28 of those 41 years, we’ve been governed by increasingly inept right-wing Tories rejected by a huge majority in Scotland. Now, Brexit. How long do you think this can or should go on?
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What a profoundly sad moment - for
@edintfest
and
@edfringe
, the first cancellation after 73 astonishing years, that have transformed our city, and had an immeasurable effect on the arts in Scotland, giving us our own direct connection to a whole world of art and inspiration. 1/2
We are deeply saddened to announce that this year's August Festivals,
@EdArtFest
@edfringe
@edbookfest
@edintfest
&
@EdinburghTattoo
are not happening as planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Has the
@ScotRail
alcohol ban expired or something? This is the third Glasgow-Edinburgh train I’ve been on in the last 24 hours that’s been awash either with drunk people swigging from cans and bottles - definitely alcohol - or the resulting piles of empties. What’s going on?
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Friday
@TheScotsman
: what if
@ScottishLabour
&
@theSNP
climbed out of their bitterly opposed constitutional trenches, & started talking about how to achieve what 75% of Scottish voters want: no more Tory govt, & 21st century social democracy in Scotland.
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@OwenJones84
You couldn't teach the suffragettes, under this! They frequently broke the law. You can debate whether that was effective, but you can't have the debate unless you teach it first. As for capitalism - only fools have no critical perspective on the system they live in.
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@iainmartin1
No, Ian. The whole point is that the SNP represent a brand of moderate, internationally-minded, EU-positive social democracy that is sadly lacking in English politics at the moment. Hence their success in all recent Scottish elections. Denial will get you nowhere, on this.
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All together now: the NHS is not a charity. We fund it through our taxes, or it dies.
A Scottish songwriter has released a charity record with the profits being donated to the NHS.
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@GraemeReid10
@Torcuil
@lisanandy
No, Scotland getting out from under the British state is an important step in reforming the whole politics of these islands. Most who support indy are former Labour voters who see Lab as future allies in building social democracy in these islands. We’re not the enemy; Tories are.
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In August, a friend suggested I apply for the post of CEO at Creative Scotland. As part of my application, I wrote a manifesto for the future of the organisation. I didn’t get an interview; but here
@scotsman_arts
, as a contribution to debate, is a version of what I wrote...
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@GerryHassan
Some unionists have reached the stage where they have this demonic version of the SNP living in their heads, and talk about it as if it was real. Tells us more about them than it does about the SNP, I’m afraid.
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The smell, the noise, the mess left behind, the over-use of toilets, and the men so drunk they insist on talking to you even though you're old... it's all really unpleasant. And my experience was that the ban did have an impact, at least until these last few days. 2/2
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@KennyFarq
No it wouldn’t, Kenny. It would be easier to negotiate good relations with a “New England”, and we could be good pals and allies, while knowing that we would never again have to live under a government chosen elsewhere, that the vast majority of us do not support.
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@Sorrelish
@Katheri48033429
I’m enraged by all these little tips on how to survive a totally avoidable crisis that is depriving people of their basic right to a warm home. This is a time for political rage, organised campaigning, and mass refusal to pay unaffordable bills - not for goddam handy hints.
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Tomorrow marks 20 years since the death of John McGrath, founder of the legendary 7:84 Theatre Company. At 11 am, I'll join this great group of people online to discuss his legacy, & to explore his first Scottish play, Random Happenings In The Hebrides..
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@JohnRentoul
FPTP at Westminster, on the other hand, currently gives Boris Johnson an unassailable 5 year majority on the basis of only 43% of votes cast, something that could never happen at Holyrood. If you are looking for flawed systems, perhaps you should start there. 2/2
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God, twitter is a strange place. Some ultra nats defend Putin & all his works because Salmond has taken RT shilling. Elsewhere, oddballs actually complain because Ian Blackford wore a kilt at Cenotaph. All purple with outrage at each other, while 95% of pop completely unmoved.
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@Indy_Quint
@BBCPolitics
Yeah, and they sing Auld Lang Syne better, too. None of that 'zyne' stuff...
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Hi
@ScotRail
&
@NetworkRailSCOT
I am 67, & have just arrived at Leuchars station in a howling, freezing westerly wind, with 35 mins until my train, to find all the station’s waiting rooms etc. locked up and unstaffed. Suggestions for avoiding serious damage to health plz.
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In grim times, just a reminder of the glorious, daft, beautiful, and joyful things we humans can do and create, when we’re not killing one another..
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@JoeEDwyer
@hazelglasgow
Imagine Boris Johnson being asked this in 2019, after he won an 80 seat absolute majority with only 43% of the vote. Unthinkable. At least NI councils have a fair electoral system.
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@iainmacwhirter
@NicolaSturgeon
Well, watched her do FMQ's on Thurs, & it struck me that in terms of political skill & ability, she is just in a different class from T May.
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So sad to hear of the death of Johnny Beattie, a wonderful man and a great entertainer. Sending love and deepest sympathy to
@MaureenBeattie2
and all the family - what a legacy he has left behind, and how Scotland will miss him. j xx 💕🌿
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Yes. I was also struck by Roger Gale’s apparent belief that we are “at war”, and that Boris Johnson is ‘leading the coalition against Putin.” 1) not at war. 2) no formal coalition. 3) if anyone is leading it, surely that’s
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