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Sharon MacGregor
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Scottish summer
July 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Scottish summer
July 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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#don’tturnyourbackonFE
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Welcome to our Bluesky account!
Solidarity ✊
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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'A well-funded, community-anchored college sector ensures fair access to education, fair work for staff, and a commitment to a fair future for all.' EIS FELA vision statement

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Fund Further Education Fairly! The Scottish Government #Don'TTURNYOURBACKONFE
Vision Statement
We envision a Further Education sector that is fully publicly funded, sustainably managed, and deeply embedded at local level.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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'A well-funded, community-anchored college sector ensures fair access to education, fair work for staff, and a commitment to a fair future for all.' EIS FELA vision statement

www.eis.org.uk/fela/eisfelavs

Fund Further Education Fairly! The Scottish Government #Don'TTURNYOURBACKONFE
Vision Statement
We envision a Further Education sector that is fully publicly funded, sustainably managed, and deeply embedded at local level.
www.eis.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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'A well-funded, community-anchored college sector ensures fair access to education, fair work for staff, and a commitment to a fair future for all.' EIS FELA vision statement

www.eis.org.uk/fela/eisfelavs

Fund Further Education Fairly! The Scottish Government #Don'TTURNYOURBACKONFE
Vision Statement
We envision a Further Education sector that is fully publicly funded, sustainably managed, and deeply embedded at local level.
www.eis.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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June 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.
Workers rights maypole illustration
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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March 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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There are some songs that bring back feelings quite sharply, and this has always been one of those for me. I’m thirteen again, and I get a real sense of all the excitement and terror that puberty carries along with it.
RIP Brian James.

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The Damned - New Rose (Official HD video)
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March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Wonder what her next move is? Wish her well.
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Down on her hands and knees
at ten at night on Hogmanay,
my mother still giving it elbowgrease
jiffywaxing the vinolay…

—Liz Lochhead, “View of Scotland/Love Poem”
published in A CHOOSING: Selected Poems (Polygon 2011)
#Hogmanay #poetry
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View of Scotland/Love Poem by Liz Lochhead Down on her hands and knees at ten at night on Hogmanay, my mother still giving it elbowgrease jiffywaxing the vinolay. (This is too ordinary to be nostalgia.) On the kitchen table a newly opened tin of sockeye salmon. Though we do not expect anyone, the slab of black bun, petticoat-tails fanned out on bone china. ‘Last year it was very quiet…’ Mum’s got her rollers in with waveset and her well-pressed good dress slack across the candlewick upstairs. Nearly half-ten already and her not shifted! If we’re to even hope to prosper this midnight must find us how we would like to be. A new view of Scotland with a dangling calendar is propped under last year’s, ready to take its place. Darling, it’s thirty years since anybody was able to trick me, December thirty-first, into ‘looking into a mirror to see a lassie wi as minny heids as days in the year’ – and two already since, familiar strangers at a party, we did not know that we were the happiness we wished each other when the Bells went, did we? All over the city off-licenses pull down their shutters, people make for where they want to be to bring the new year in. In highrises and tenements sunburst clocks tick on dusted mantelshelves. Everyone puts on their best spread of plenty (for to even hope to prosper this midnight must find us how we would like to be). So there’s a bottle of sickly liqueur among the booze in the alcove, golden crusts on steak pies like quilts on a double bed. And this is where we live. There is no time like the present for a kiss.
December 31, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Israeli forces accused of taking Gaza hospital staff to detention centre for interrogation – Middle East crisis live
Israeli forces accused of taking Gaza hospital staff to detention centre for interrogation – Middle East crisis live
Gaza health officials said the IDF detained the director of a hospital, which the WHO said was put out of service by an Israeli raid Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s live coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. Israeli forces have…
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December 28, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF DREAM STATE

Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O'Rourke, editor of Dream State published in 1994 which remains the gold standard of poetry anthologies & arguably the most visionary poetry anthology ever published in Scotland.

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Celebrating 30 years of Dream State with its editor Donny O'Rourke
In this extended version of Nothing But The Poem Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O'Rourke, editor of Dream State - The New Scottish Poets which was published in 1994 and remains the gold standard of...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Our petition to grant the River Clyde legal rights of personhood is edging towards 100 signatures. Can you help us get there & beyond?! Please sign, if you're minded to - & please share with friends & associates 🩵💦 #RiverRights petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
Petition: Grant Scottish rivers, including the River Clyde, the legal right to personhood
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to grant the River Clyde, and potentially other rivers in Scotland, the legal right to personhood by: * adopting the Universal Decla...
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December 16, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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One of my clever nieces (there are many) has just been published

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The Spirituality Gap by Abi Millar | Waterstones
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November 29, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Today is a day of action. Please forward, post or even print and take photos of yourself holding.
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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November 27, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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