George McEwan
@coldclimbs.bsky.social
Mountaineering Instructor (WMCI). Personal account. All views & opinions expressed my own. Native anarchist. Mountain Training Scotland Executive Officer. He/him.
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I might understand supporting Labour in England if your only alternative was Reform (it's really not).
But in Scotland and Wales? There's no such excuse. The SNP, Scottish Greens, Plaid are all better choices.
This is a new low for Starmer's party.
But in Scotland and Wales? There's no such excuse. The SNP, Scottish Greens, Plaid are all better choices.
This is a new low for Starmer's party.
… there is no “golden ticket”… Bt
There is a dog whistle called “golden ticket”
They are “stopping “ something that never existed
If anyone spoke to asylum seekers.. (I worked with them) .. they are given less than the bare minimum & are housed in flea pits .. it’s actually deeply inhumane
There is a dog whistle called “golden ticket”
They are “stopping “ something that never existed
If anyone spoke to asylum seekers.. (I worked with them) .. they are given less than the bare minimum & are housed in flea pits .. it’s actually deeply inhumane
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I might understand supporting Labour in England if your only alternative was Reform (it's really not).
But in Scotland and Wales? There's no such excuse. The SNP, Scottish Greens, Plaid are all better choices.
This is a new low for Starmer's party.
But in Scotland and Wales? There's no such excuse. The SNP, Scottish Greens, Plaid are all better choices.
This is a new low for Starmer's party.
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We need more Council houses in towns and cities, but instead Labour will concrete over the countryside to build more unaffordable mansions
If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, MPs find
The Environmental Audit Committee found the government's measures are not enough to meet targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We need more Council houses in towns and cities, but instead Labour will concrete over the countryside to build more unaffordable mansions
If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Why don’t we fight back? Because land is power. Every single piece of credible research says that Scots overwhelmingly do want to fight back. Land reform is wildly popular, supported by overwhelming majorities. Yet still it doesn’t happen. Why?"
#LandReform
#Scotland🏴
#LandReform
#Scotland🏴
Land is power – Scotland’s people have none
Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation
bylines.scot
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"Why don’t we fight back? Because land is power. Every single piece of credible research says that Scots overwhelmingly do want to fight back. Land reform is wildly popular, supported by overwhelming majorities. Yet still it doesn’t happen. Why?"
#LandReform
#Scotland🏴
#LandReform
#Scotland🏴
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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You can now enjoy a video tour of our exhibition 'What Would Lucy Say?', which looks at the history of female participation in the Alpine Club ➡️ youtu.be/OL26clDQDUk
The exhibition was held in late 2024 and early 2025 to mark 50 years since the Club's merger with the Ladies' Alpine Club.
The exhibition was held in late 2024 and early 2025 to mark 50 years since the Club's merger with the Ladies' Alpine Club.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
You can now enjoy a video tour of our exhibition 'What Would Lucy Say?', which looks at the history of female participation in the Alpine Club ➡️ youtu.be/OL26clDQDUk
The exhibition was held in late 2024 and early 2025 to mark 50 years since the Club's merger with the Ladies' Alpine Club.
The exhibition was held in late 2024 and early 2025 to mark 50 years since the Club's merger with the Ladies' Alpine Club.
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Oh. yeah. We should definitely vote in this demigod to run the country. 😂
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Oh. yeah. We should definitely vote in this demigod to run the country. 😂
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Current state of UK political discourse.
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Current state of UK political discourse.
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Did I get obsessed with the Munro #TidyTuesday and go on a @walkhighlands.co.uk deep dive (gratefully with their consent)?
Yes.
Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work?
Yes.
Was it worth it?
Yes.
Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...
Yes.
Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work?
Yes.
Was it worth it?
Yes.
Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...
September 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Did I get obsessed with the Munro #TidyTuesday and go on a @walkhighlands.co.uk deep dive (gratefully with their consent)?
Yes.
Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work?
Yes.
Was it worth it?
Yes.
Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...
Yes.
Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work?
Yes.
Was it worth it?
Yes.
Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...
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Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.
Trans people in the UK can still use the toilets that match their gender. Yes, even after the Supreme Court ruling. Here's why:
tacc.org.uk/2025/04/23/t...
tacc.org.uk/2025/04/23/t...
Toilet Hysteria Isn’t Law: Why Trans People in the UK Can Still Pee in Peace - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
(Yes, Even After the Supreme Court Ruling) Let’s clear something up before another MP starts frothing at the mouth on GB News: in the UK, there is still no law that stops transgender people from…
tacc.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.
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Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science
Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science
Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science
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It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Wonderful
🔴'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Wonderful
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Those free speech lovers at the Daily Mail are busy wasting public money trying to get Councils to take down Pride Flags. What pathetic losers. goodlaw.social/ylbu
Daily Mail bullying councils over flying Pride flags at town halls | Good Law Project
In yet more public disservice journalism, the Daily Mail is demanding proof from councils that they have planning permission to fly the Progress Pride flag, according to an email seen by Good Law Proj...
goodlaw.social
June 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Those free speech lovers at the Daily Mail are busy wasting public money trying to get Councils to take down Pride Flags. What pathetic losers. goodlaw.social/ylbu
Lovely day down in Sma Glen for this years Community of Practice Workshop for Mountain Training Scotland Providers, Trainers, Assessors and Tutors.
We spent the day looking at the Hazards and Emergency Procedures section of the syllabus. Stunning weather and great input from everyone.
We spent the day looking at the Hazards and Emergency Procedures section of the syllabus. Stunning weather and great input from everyone.
June 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Lovely day down in Sma Glen for this years Community of Practice Workshop for Mountain Training Scotland Providers, Trainers, Assessors and Tutors.
We spent the day looking at the Hazards and Emergency Procedures section of the syllabus. Stunning weather and great input from everyone.
We spent the day looking at the Hazards and Emergency Procedures section of the syllabus. Stunning weather and great input from everyone.
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Yeah but no but yeah but no but surrender. Life’s just one big betrayal for Kemi and co | John Crace
Yeah but no but yeah but no but surrender. Life’s just one big betrayal for Kemi and co | John Crace
Be it winter fuel, criminal justice, the EU or Chagos Islands, never miss a chance to try to rewrite Tory history
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yeah but no but yeah but no but surrender. Life’s just one big betrayal for Kemi and co | John Crace
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"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dartmoor case set to decide future of wild camping
Hikers can pitch a tent under the stars on the moor without permission, but for how much longer?
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The critical point 👇🏻 is that (contrary to what the ideologues contend) service providers and employers can and should be continuing to offer *inclusive* same sex services including toilets. If they refuse they will expose themselves to real legal risk.
Very pleased to say, we've at last managed to get up some practical guidance on what the For (Some) Women Scotland decision means.
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
Trans inclusion after the Supreme Court decision: FAQs | Good Law Project
Guidance for this time of uncertainty
goodlaw.social
May 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The critical point 👇🏻 is that (contrary to what the ideologues contend) service providers and employers can and should be continuing to offer *inclusive* same sex services including toilets. If they refuse they will expose themselves to real legal risk.
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Also you cannot be "brilliant and racist" because racism, by its very nature, is a fundamentally stupid attitude. So no... Enoch Powell was not a great thinker. He was a dumb twat...
And that's my "thought for the day."
And that's my "thought for the day."
May 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Also you cannot be "brilliant and racist" because racism, by its very nature, is a fundamentally stupid attitude. So no... Enoch Powell was not a great thinker. He was a dumb twat...
And that's my "thought for the day."
And that's my "thought for the day."
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AND acknowledge that a large pool of British potential care workers is not readily apparent (~130K vacancies in care sector).
As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
AND acknowledge that a large pool of British potential care workers is not readily apparent (~130K vacancies in care sector).
As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
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Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Reform Ltd is lead by a russian asset and quisling.
Fascist
Arsehole
Russian
Asset
Grifting
Endlessly
Fascist
Arsehole
Russian
Asset
Grifting
Endlessly
May 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reform Ltd is lead by a russian asset and quisling.
Fascist
Arsehole
Russian
Asset
Grifting
Endlessly
Fascist
Arsehole
Russian
Asset
Grifting
Endlessly
Bees! Tree bees seemingly. But very cool!
May 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bees! Tree bees seemingly. But very cool!
Constantly amazed that USA voted for a dude to lead the nation who just talks shite. Then I look at Westminster and go… oh yeah…
May 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Constantly amazed that USA voted for a dude to lead the nation who just talks shite. Then I look at Westminster and go… oh yeah…