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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social
@siobhanwalsh.bsky.social
NHS Doctor (1983-2019). Aspiring Eco - Warrior/poet/singer-MDANT 🏅
Spot on
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence
Labour has managed to pack so much failure into a single week that it becomes hard to remember all the details.
iandunt.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford.

Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
Scottish Book Trust
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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🚨 NEW Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as a Shield for Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My @heraldscotland.bsky.social story on the fall-out from the Supreme Court ruling on the rape shield provisions. Thomas Ross KC calls for a retired SC judge to examine an expected spike in potential miscarriage of justice cases. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562273...
Top KC urges review after Supreme Court ruling on rape trial laws
A high profile advocate who claims laws to protect rape victims have been violating the  right to a fair trial in Scotland has called for the…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.

They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The Charity Commission has just opened an investigation into the hideous transphobic lobbyists at Policy Exchange. 👇
“We think it’s long past time that the Charity Commission created real disincentives to breaches of this nature. In effect they amount to a misuse of public money, and if the Commission fails to do so we will not hesitate to challenge it in court.” goodlaw.social/9azv
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
goodlaw.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Remember when our then FM N Sturgeon pulled out of a BBC media conference to avoid ‘legitimising far right or racist views’ and then the editor of the Holyrood Parliamentary magazine gave him a ‘We’re the right side of History’ interview
In other emails, Epstein described his relationships with foreign leaders, advised Steve Bannon on how to increase his influence in Europe and offered his (mostly, but not entirely, dim) assesment of Trump to those who asked. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This is particularly true when claimant anonymity is at risk. So I am relieved that the Court rejected their application to live tweet. And I think that they had to apologise for their inaccuracies in Court today even when *not* live tweeting should be taken into account by judges in future.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
Your favourite library is sinking
Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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When the Noticing Things begins, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s absurd, black bag-stuffing in cash corruption or just the regular, humdrum matey one-hand-washing-the-other that British politics has been for decades. It’s all grist to the mill.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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"He’s not just toast, he’s croutons."
Always interesting to read what our Scottish neighbours think up North. Especially when it's @neilmackay.bsky.social shedding a different light on things than most of us down here in the Westminster bubble.
Starmer is finished. It will all be over come May’s elections when Labour goes down in flames. Scotland specifically will be his Waterloo. Far be it from me to assist the most unpopular PM ever, but he has one chance to save himself: campaign to reverse Brexit

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
Scotland will be Starmer’s Waterloo … unless he takes this one daring gamble
The Labour Party is now fighting like cats in a sack, and the Prime Minister risks being ousted after May’s elections unless he is brave enough to…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The comments 🤣
NEW: Presenter Mike Graham has been dismissed from Rupert Murdoch’s digital channel TalkTV.

Company says he failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.

He said he has been hacked:

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Mike Graham sacked from TalkTV after ‘failure’ to assist inquiry into racist post
Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hacked
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Now confirmed: no action. news.sky.com/story/police...
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Tribunal Tweets put out that they were reviewing their notes to "allow identification" of the anonymous claimants. Obviously an error – though it remained up for two hours – but perhaps highlights the wisdom of the court in refusing them permission to live tweet highly sensitive proceedings.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’

The Observer view: political interference at the BBC

https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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How likely is that? There’s a great read from the new Stateman’s new pol ed @pronouncedalva.bsky.social, who is turning out to be an inspired hire, here www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Does Keir Starmer realise how much trouble he's in?
The Prime Minister is facing a crisis of contempt among his own MPs
www.newstatesman.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Operation Save Big Dog By Giving His Main Rival A Chance To Show He’s Better At Politics is going well www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wes Streeting denies plotting to oust Keir Starmer as prime minister
Health secretary dismisses claims as ‘unhelpful’ and ‘self-defeating’ after reports that PM’s job could be under threat
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561552...
A Lot of important news today but I’m interested to hear from the legal minds whom I trust what their take is on this landmark judgement
Supreme Court issues landmark judgment on Scotland's rape shield laws
Supreme Court rules on key Scottish rape trials cases and say changes are required to how evidence is handled in sexual offence proceedings.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw
We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court
After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.
goodlaw.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...
Does the Equality Act ban trans women from women's services?
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (FWS) on 16 April this year that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 (EA2010) means biological sex, there has been si...
www.linkedin.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM