Professor Lesley Stark
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Professor Lesley Stark
@lesleys20.bsky.social
Chair of nucleolar signalling and cancer prevention. University of Edinburgh. Views my own and not my employer. Interested in politics and the science of senescence, the nucleolus and ageing.
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Recorded crime in Scotland is at one of the lowest levels since 1974.

Police numbers are higher than when the SNP came into office.

And all that Anas Sarwar offers is empty rhetoric, hypocrisy and no solutions.
October 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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#WATCH | In the heart of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, a haunting image reveals widespread destruction, with temporary tents amidst the rubble of demolished buildings, highlighting the immense human suffering of the displaced.

(Eye on Palestine)
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Yes for EU contingent at #ScotlandDemandsBetter march & rally in Edinburgh!
For the best future for Scotland we must demand #independence and #EUmembership.
Poverty was the main focus of the event: let no-one forget that the main cause of #poverty in Scotland is UK gov policy.

#BelieveInScotland
October 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Prof Henry Maitles: “As a Scottish, Glaswegian Jew who has been on many of these marches, sometimes as part of a bloc under a loose heading of “Scottish Jews stand with Palestine”, I’ve found no hostility whatsoever towards me or indeed any Jewish people.”

www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
I am a Scottish Jew. This is the truth about pro-Palestine 'antisemitism'
THERE has been unease among British Jews about our major cities, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, being “no-go areas” ...
www.thenational.scot
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Fish payments, polis payments, lots of nukes. My column in the Sunday National tomorrow about the amount of sand being kicked in Scotland's face.
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Evening all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The government is gaslighting the British public over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Jews in Birmingham stand against Maccabi hooligans, they feel very safe, they don't want them coming to make them feel scared.
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
There is a lot of discussion in Scotland as the fees the scot government pays universities per student has not increased in years. This means less income than English unis. However, the financial.problems in English unis as bad as Scitland. So not all down to fees.
October 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Watched channel 4 news. Parliament to busy to do anything about Pince Andrew. Seemingly waste of parliamentary time. Up to Royal family. But seemingly they can use a lot if time advocating for hooligans. Because they are Isreali. Says everything about the Labour party.
Is Labour just uninformed - or do they knowingly lie?
Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"

Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Is Labour just uninformed - or do they knowingly lie?
Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"

Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.

After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇
October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Zia Yusuf hates this, because it mocks his ignorant followers.

That is enough reason to love it.
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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For Israel to continue there must be a de-zionification process similar to the denazification process set up by the allies after WWII. Those identified as perpetrators of war crimes must face justice
youtube.com/post/Ugkxr8E...
Post from Middle East Monitor - YouTube
Doctors in Gaza have accused Israel of torturing and executing Palestinians after receiving the mutilated remains of 90 people as part of a ceasefire deal. F...
youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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In the UK, we have a government who will complain about peaceful protests taking up valuable police resources while simultaneously complaining that the police shouldn't ban far right football hooligans with a history of violence and disruption from attending a match.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This.
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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This.
October 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Very good decision.
Scottish Police have decided that Palestine Action's... actions fall well below the definition of terrorism.

It will no longer be devoting police resources to arresting them.
October 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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NEW: A photographer who captured viral footage of violent Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last year has said Keir Starmer is playing “a political game” by opposing a ban on Israeli supporters attending an Aston Villa match next month
Photographer who filmed Maccabi violence says Keir Starmer playing 'political game'
www.thenational.scot
October 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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😡 The PM called it wrong. Badly wrong.

Why is he undermining local safety groups, the local police and the local MP?

He should prioritise local residents, British police and public safety...

...rather than interfering to race-bait and prioritise dangerous Israeli hooligans.
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Why does the government care so much. They don't care about the struggling masses anymore. Just appeasing foreign powers? Something is very wrong here.
UK Government ‘doing everything’ to overturn cruel two-child benefit cap…

Oh wait…

No, it’s the ban on extreme Zionist hooligans coming to Birmingham they’re fighting tooth and nail to overturn.

Almost forgot how inept and morally vacuous Starmer’s Government is.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban at Aston Villa match
It is working with police and exploring what additional resources are required to allow all fans to attend.
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM