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1/ A short(ish) thread on Scotland's Additional Member System, and how we've been looking at it wrongly for over 20 years
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“New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster” #ClimCrisis
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Last year I wrote this on refugee policy:
"This is what happens when you normalise the unthinkable.
First it becomes thinkable.
Then sayable.
Then ‘desirable’, ‘the only option’, ‘common sense’.
Once out there, it cannot be unthought, unsaid, unnormalised".
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"The suffragettes are the largest domestic terror organisation who ever operated on British soil, they have no equivalent" @FernRiddell
Worth remembering this every time a JSO protestor temporarily annoys some sports fans.
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Scenes at Hampden as the game is paused for 20 minutes while they try to dry the pitch out #SCOGEO
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Because they are the international lender of last resort & exist to promote international economic stability. Responsible governments recalibrate fiscal policy according to forecasts (see also OBR) & so hopefully avoid some of the predicted problems, necessitating new forecasts.
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Quote of the day: "Most developed countries have some poor places. The UK has a poor three-quarters. If you concentrate all the economic activity in the bottom right-hand corner, the economy as a whole will suffer."
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What links Sir David Attenborough with one of the most infamous murders in Victorian Britain?🍿
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BREAKING: Peter Murrell has been released without charge “pending further investigation” scotland.police.uk/what-s-ha…
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Just remember, if the Rebellion can come for Palpatine, they will come for you.
What's next, prosecuting Darth Vader for killing a few Younglings, or Tarkin for blowing up ONE measly planet?
Where will this woke madness end???
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Dear Free @SpeechUnion, I’ve been waiting in all day for you to pop round to defend Gary Lineker, but you don’t seem to have shown up. Can you let me know when this will happen please?
Interesting piece of history, which I learned this morning courtesy of #ThisIsRigged
stirling-lhs.org/sca-suffrag…
In other news, some glass got smashed
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This is really important!
Reactionary serial poster Ian Miles Cheong has shared a misleading clip about Humza Yousaf from June 2020. The missing context: Yousaf is making a speech about racial injustice and inequality after the death of George Floyd. Full remarks: parliament.scot/chamber-and-…
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A lot of people have asked me my views of the leadership contest. Truthfully, I have been incredibly hurt so far. Hurt originating with the statements @_KateForbes has made and since stood by. I, like most people in Scotland, could not care less about someone’s religion. (1/10)
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Ballot Box Scotland has today issued an extraordinary statement pointing out the "Indian Council of Scotland" is one random guy with a Facebook Page and the "Muslim Council of the United Kingdom" is not the Muslim Council of Britain, and this leadership contest has rotted brains.
