Guardian type, more often on @libbybrooks.bsky.social , founder member @WIJ_Scotland; author of The Story of Childhood; gingerbread enthusiast
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I'd urge everyone with teenagers in their life to read this: I'm very grateful to the parents of 16-year-old Murray Dowey for speaking to me, as @NCA_UK launch an alert to educators across the UK warning them of the devastating consequences of sextortion
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Princess Anne leaves #Glasgow to cheers and warm applause
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Anti-abortion protesters outside Glasgow’s Sandyford have packed up and left after a pro-choice counter-demo drowned out their message @backoffscotland
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I was there at Bute House and can confirm that this is exactly how it went
“Put your arm down ya arsehole..get in”
#janeygodleyvoiceover
Am on your janeygodley.com
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“In fairness to Scotland’s first minister, her untypical explosion of joy was probably more to do with the triumph of a young, first-time candidate who had overcome a cancer diagnosis as a teenager and has since sworn allegiance to the NHS.” theguardian.com/politics/201…
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This really is an extraordinary way to describe another female politician, particularly after Davidson herself has talked at length about the impact of our toxic on- and off-line environment on women candidates
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Nicola Sturgeon tells Matt Forde “If you want to know what I was really thinking [when Boris Johnson tried to usher her into Bute House] just watch the @JaneyGodley version”
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NEW Janey Godley dropped from Scottish govt Covid campaign following "unacceptable" tweets: "While she has rightly apologised, trust in our public health messages..is paramount. We have taken the decision to withdraw any further campaign material in which Ms Godley features"
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Publishing her document on the case for holding a second independence referendum, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says “the mandate is by any normal standard of democracy unarguable”
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Nicola Sturgeon confirms Gender Recognition Reform bill within first year of this parliament: "It will make life easier for one of the most stigmatized minorities in our society...What it will not do is remove any of the legal protections that women currently have" #PfG
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If you are the woman who has just got off the Glasgow train at #Stirling and left your black handbag under the seat, don’t panic, the bag is with the conductor who will bring it back to Stirling ticket office. Please retweet on the very off-chance this message finds her!
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Carlaw shouts at Rennie, Rennie shouts at Leonard...meanwhile Nicola Sturgeon is standing there with her arms folded like a teacher who has already tried multiple time-outs with the kids and is now just waiting for the lunch bell to go #stvdebate
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Love Serena Williams on partnering Andy Murray at Wimbledon: “Above all he always speaks out on women’s issues and you can tell he has really strong women in his life”
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Glad to see Scottish Tories being challenged about whether their highly personalised campaign against Nicola Sturgeon is sexist
Ruth Davidson: voters now call Nicola Sturgeon 'that f***ing woman' heraldscotland.com/news/1809…
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“They messed with the wrong city” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
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Breaking: Court of Session refuses U.K. government leave to appeal to Supreme Court on Article 50 revocation case: this means case will be heard by ECJ before meaningful vote in Commons
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How could I back anyone but the SNP and the bolshie, buoyant Scotland it stands for? @valmcdermid writes for @guardianopinion theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The yes surge is back: SNP report they're 'inundated' with emails from previous no voters pledging support for #indyref2, other groups same
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Latest response from Nicola Sturgeon to UKIM is ferocious: “The UK government are not only set to break international law – it is clear they are now set to break devolution. [UKIM bill] is an abomination. It is a naked power grab which would cripple devolution."
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NEW Nicola Sturgeon has emailed SNP members calling on them to suspend all campaigning and focus instead on their communities: "We are the largest political campaigning network in Scotland, with volunteers living in every neighbourhood. We have a big part to play."
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“Middle-aged men should generally avoid commenting on the physical or mental well-being of teenage girls." So brilliant to read @JudyMurray & @andy_murray do what they've always done with such class: championing younger & female players theguardian.com/sport/2021/j…
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Evening all! A wee clarification: it is not a lie, fake news or even "auditioning to be BoJo's press officer" to report, with accuracy and attribution, criticisms of the new rules for students in Scotland. Night all!
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3/3 But when I look at this photograph, I also see this: a solitary woman, surrounded by men, having to justify another man's inappropriate behaviour.
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Women leaving ribbons, flowers and messages of solidarity in #Glasgow’s George Square #saraheverard #reclaimthesestreets
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Award-winning columnist Deborah Orr dies aged 57 theguardian.com/media/2019/o…
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Final total of voters registered for this Thursday's Holyrood election confirmed at 4,280,785 ***the highest electorate ever for a Scottish Parliament election*** says Electoral Commission in Scotland, up from 4,098,462 in 2016
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Final evidence session on Gender Recognition Reform bill keeps getting interrupted as women in public seats unveil their ‘Nicola Sturgeon destroyer of women’s rights’ t-shirts for the telly. Just another normal day at Holyrood
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.@theSNP confirms that it has gained 1100 members since midday today @snpwalkout
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SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I started knitting this tunic just before I came back to Scotland in 2014. Last night I finished it. I did some other stuff in between but it feels really significant to have finally cast off. It may just mean I’m a slow knitter & easily distracted
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This is also about increasing aggression to devolution as a concept, from a generation of Tories for whom the fact of devolution is antithetical to their political project. We’ll be reading a lot more about this in the coming months theguardian.com/politics/202…
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English Scots for Yes now standing in front of the pro-union counter demonstration at #indyref2020 rally
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As a huge admirer of Shami Chakrabarti's work at Liberty, there are few people I'd rather listen to on terror laws this morning. Her call for politicians to take a breath, acknowledge the broken nature of our entire penal system & not leap to punitive legislation is essential
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I can report particular frustration in Glasgow, where last weekend crowds of male football supporters took over George Square, but this weekend women are warned of fines for inhabiting that same civic space
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A senior SNP source told me a few weeks ago that they felt the police search was “invasive” & were waiting for a leak of the contents of Sturgeon’s underwear drawer. I left it out my copy bc I thought it sounded OTT. Seeing this splash, I was plainly wrong
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Friends paint fuller picture of Mercy Baguma: 'She was a rainbow' theguardian.com/uk-news/2020…
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SNP amendment to scrap two-child benefit cap causes first Commons rebellion for Starmer - I still remember when former SNP MP @alisonthewliss noticed this buried in the 2015 budget, and only fair to acknowledge her campaigning on it ever since
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Nicola Sturgeon has just told a roomful of people that they have to deliver 2.4 million leaflets (probably in the rain) but, because this is SNP conference, everyone clapped and cheered #SNP19
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Princess Anne bends to read tributes to her mother the Queen in #glasgow
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Writing up the latest developments this morning, I'm struck by fact Scotland and Wales were calling for talks about a second lockdown in early September but were left frustrated theguardian.com/politics/202…
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To be clear, these reports came from care sector professionals & journalists at the Times, the National & others. Scottish Care continues to stand by them, and there's a revealing interview with the head of one PPE manufacturer from @TomPeterkin tonight
Ministers furious with the SNP about the false reports from Scotland about PPE
Source: "The SNP are playing politics in the middle of a pandemic. They ignored their own clinicians and pushed a false narrative that had been debunked by their own national clinical director."
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Thoughts currently with the folk in rentals all over Glasgow who can’t understand why the doorbell keeps going or what guising means and haven’t got in ten bags of Maoam
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Some cheering news to begin 2017: universal basic income trials being considered in Scotland theguardian.com/politics/201…
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Not my usual attire for a media briefing but suspect this is going to become my #cop26 uniform
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Also on Marr, Nicola Sturgeon says she hopes that she will be the first minister to lead Scotland to independence: "I hope so. We've just won a landslide...I've got the energy and appetite"
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Standout interviewing from @STVKathryn here
Boris Johnson defends Universal Credit cut whilst handing peerage to Tory donor. bit.ly/3mjQRTf
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Hand-made signs around Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland, indicate levels of local concern about an influx of isolation tourists over Easter h/t @KirsteenCurrie
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In Scotland we've seen results of a well-run, positive, volunteer-driven campaign under popular leader. Really is as simple as that #GE15
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Always worth reminding oneself that there are #Yes hubs like this one all across Scotland still doing their thing
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Not surprised to learn that both former inmates who helped victims of the London Bridge attack had served at HMP Grendon, the UK's only theraputic-based penal regime that has yielded amazing results for over 50 years and yet bafflingly remains a one-off theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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.@UCUScotland's Mary Senior on the new restrictions for Scottish students: “It is astounding that the Scottish Government & principals are blaming students for Covid outbreaks on university campuses. This is an incredibly contagious virus & students were encouraged to return"
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Johnson was challenged about why he does not meet the public during his visits to Scotland. He insisted that he had spoken to Scottish voters “loads of times”, although he was unable to give specifics
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1/2 Ugly moment at SNP election campaign launch when @BBCJamesCook is loudly booed & heckled by activists for asking a perfectly legitimate question of John Swinney. Yes Swinney cut if off quickly and told members to let media do our jobs. But still…
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Our brilliant photographer Murdo MacLeod was with the @ScientistRebel1 protesters who blocked the King George V bridge from about 11 to 4pm, in one of the biggest direct actions of #cop26 so far
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When this is all over, I’m buying whoever came up with this ‘Travel Bam’ headline a very expensive drink
Tomorrow's Daily Record leads on criticism of Boris Johnson's non-essential visit to Scotland #TomorrowsPapersToday @hendopolis
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“Years of progress on LGBTQ+ policy…has been rapidly eroded by a UK government that has taken its foot off the pedal” @stonewalluk theguardian.com/world/2022/m…
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Crowds gathering outside Holyrood for the For Women Scotland rally protesting proposed reforms to the GRA, carrying signs reading ‘no to self-ID’ & ‘women’s rights are not hateful’
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“At the peak I was getting one email a minute” Constituents bombard MPs with 180,000 emails about Dominic Cummings theguardian.com/politics/202…
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1/5 This morning my thoughts are with the women who woke up to find that yet again social media and more is full of bile and abuse towards them because of this latest iteration of the Salmond saga
Tomorrow's front page: The Sunday Mail can reveal claims of perjury committed in Alex Salmond's sex assault trial are being probed.
#scotpapers
#TomorrowsPapersToday
@AllieHBNews
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“I can’t believe that people like them so much”: Janey Godley on her Twitter voiceovers, comedy success and survival theguardian.com/culture/2019…
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What a testament this is to Lorna and John Norgrove's determination to carry on their daughter Linda's work
Afghan women arrive in Edinburgh to finish medical degrees denied under Taliban
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Talking to locals in Dunblane about Andy’s Murray’s retirement, the affection and appreciation for him is palpable: ‘he represented us the way we wanted to be represented’
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It's the evening before the UK government's drug summit in Glasgow & I'm still waiting for any word on media arrangements having called & emailed numerous times. We had full access to Scottish gov/Glasgow city council event today. Hugely frustrating
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I appreciate guidance is case by case & nursery environments need to be kept safe, but in Glasgow - where 6000 football fans a day can gather for the Euros -the inconsistency is beyond glaring
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“Society is poorly served by those who seek to dismiss the consequence of hate – lawful or otherwise – as nothing more than “hurt feelings” “ Thoughtful column from @DaniGaravelli1 for @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/…
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This morning's report included lengthy and powerful evidence from Ms A & Ms B, the women who made the original sexual harassment complaints against Alex Salmond: they speak of a culture of "complicity" & "a blind eye" being turned to inappropriate behaviour
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Nicola Sturgeon speaking to reporters after meeting Boris Johnson: "Behind all of the bluff and bluster this is a government that is dangerous...this is a government that is pursing a no deal strategy however much they might deny that in public".
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Shout out to my kid's nursery, which has just cancelled its graduation plans because it didn't understand the guidance (no gatherings of any size permitted, even outdoors). A bunch of 5 yos yet again upset & confused that yet another nice thing has been cancelled
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2/2 … I would be furious whichever colleague it had been. I can’t think of another major party rally across the UK where that would happen and where activists would consider it acceptable behaviour
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“Justice has been done today after a wait of over 50 years” Edinburgh Academy survivors leaving court just now, after a sheriff ruled that their former housemaster John Brownlee was responsible for a catalogue of horrific assaults on children as young as eight
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This is the first study of family abuse of British LGBTQ+ people, and the results are shocking theguardian.com/world/2022/a…
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#bbcqt fact check: it's London and other cities that are learning from Glasgow when it comes to how best to deal with knife crime theguardian.com/uk-news/2018…
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1/2 I really feel for the 100s of students, many freshers, self-isolating in Glasgow tonight. I remember me in my early days away from home: fully gallus, full of it, so nervous, scared. I met the young woman who is still my best pal on my 2nd day & clung to her like a life raft
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After the fall-out from the Sarah Everard case elsewhere, including bizarre advice to frightened women to flag down a passing bus, this practical, responsibility-taking response from @PoliceScotland is hugely welcome: “The onus is on us” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
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.@KeithBrownSNP, SNP deputy leader, tells the Guardian: this is a celebration of what Scotland wants to be about, which is everything Donald Trump is not about
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After Ian Blackford's call for a universal basic income to support ppl through coronavirus, a reminder that Scotland has been looking at this for some time... theguardian.com/uk-news/2017…
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“Put your arm down ya arsehole..get in”
#janeygodleyvoiceover
Am on your janeygodley.com
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Marchers still streaming up Gibson Street onto Woodlands Road for the #AUOBGlasgow event
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NEW Scottish activists have occupied a building in the city centre in order to provide safe and secure accommodation to protesters who have been forced to sleep rough or make do with unsuitable arrangements because of the chronic shortage of affordable lodgings at #COP26
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“There is smash-and-grab of our democracy going on in real time. And this silence is complicity.” This is chilling & typically brilliant stuff from @carolecadwalla on the current threat to the rule of law theguardian.com/politics/201…
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Feel like I'm always yakking on about Scotland's demographic timebomb, but the birth rate figures out today, at an all-time low, coupled with Brexit's impact on migration are very VERY troubling
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Bloody awful news. My thoughts this morning are with Scott Hutchinson’s family and friends, and with everyone who deals with mental ill health on a daily basis theguardian.com/uk-news/2018…
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Anti-racist protesters greatly outnumbering the anti-immigration rally in George Square Glasgow this morning
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Delighted to hear Sturgeon announce first baby boxes will be delivered on New Year's Day 2017, as I'm due on Jan 10th
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'The story just keeps getting better': my piece for Inside the Guardian on reporting on Scotland theguardian.com/membership/2…
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This morning feels like a good time to say: it has been the greatest privilege of my career to report on this referendum. Thank you Scotland
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1/3 I know that this is a photograph of people doing their jobs, but I also find it very hard to look at. I wasn't in Holyrood today, so I don't know if the women political reporters who work there were standing out of shot, or were elsewhere like me...
Under pressure: @NicolaSturgeon is asked if @DerekMackaySNP should continue as an MSP. Says her view of his behaviour is clear but it would be wrong to preempt an @theSNP inquiry. He’s been suspended from the party after resignation as finance secretary.
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For @GuardianWeekend ‘The world is my oyster’: Nicola Sturgeon on feminism, her last push for independence and life after politics theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Cheers for Sturgeon in studio. At home, everyone who didn't last time round Googles: how can I vote for SNP if I live in England? #BBCdebate
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The European Arrest Warrant should never be used as a tool of political oppression’ says Carla Ponsatí’s lawyer @AamerAnwar
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At her Covid briefing, Nicola Sturgeon states: "I strongly refute the suggestions and insinuations from David Davis in the Commons last night. I’m not going to have this Covid briefing side-tracked by the latest instalment of Alex Salmond’s conspiracy theory".
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Scottish government publishes referendum bill with a view to staging second independence vote before 2021 theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
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