Jeane Freeman
@jeanef1.bsky.social
Dean of Strategic Economic Engagement @ University of Glasgow & Hon Professor @ QMU. Former Scottish Government Health Secretary. Politics, books, health policy and ideas. Views my own.
Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?
August 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?
When did we become a country that refuses to hear, or read, or discuss different views? Was that not the essence of the Enlightenment from which we and very many others worldwide gained so much?
August 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When did we become a country that refuses to hear, or read, or discuss different views? Was that not the essence of the Enlightenment from which we and very many others worldwide gained so much?
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"The white paper’s boldest proposal is to cut the social care visa. Yet the social care visa has strong public support: with only just over 1 in 5 people supporting reductions to this route."
@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper
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@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper
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The immigration white paper misjudges the public’s priorities - UK in a changing Europe
Heather Rolfe analyses public opinion on the UK government's white paper on immigration. She argues that while much of the public is in favour of reducing migration, the content and language of the wh...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"The white paper’s boldest proposal is to cut the social care visa. Yet the social care visa has strong public support: with only just over 1 in 5 people supporting reductions to this route."
@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper
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@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper
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👇. Absolutely
Starmer's speech today was shameful from a Labour government: pandering, dishonest and inflammatory.
To say "the damage this has done to our country is incalculable" is language no politician should use about migrants who have come to the UK and contributed to our economy and society.
To say "the damage this has done to our country is incalculable" is language no politician should use about migrants who have come to the UK and contributed to our economy and society.
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
👇. Absolutely
What more do we need to know Scotland needs to be able to determine our own immigration policy?
“..an island of strangers” - Starmer. What utter shameful nonsense. Playing the right wing dog whistle has to be a new low from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social.
May 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What more do we need to know Scotland needs to be able to determine our own immigration policy?
“..an island of strangers” - Starmer. What utter shameful nonsense. Playing the right wing dog whistle has to be a new low from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social.
May 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“..an island of strangers” - Starmer. What utter shameful nonsense. Playing the right wing dog whistle has to be a new low from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social.
So this morning a political podcast was rec and I’m sure it’ll be worth listening to. But it struck me - the majority of pol podcasts are all male and all are Westminster centric. Scot cast and Welsh cast exempt. What an internal gazing thing they are when we have 4 nations.
March 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
So this morning a political podcast was rec and I’m sure it’ll be worth listening to. But it struck me - the majority of pol podcasts are all male and all are Westminster centric. Scot cast and Welsh cast exempt. What an internal gazing thing they are when we have 4 nations.
Angels Raynor on BBC news justifying Ministers taking freebies as ok cos it’s ’in the rules’. Utterly tone deaf just like the Tories were.
March 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Angels Raynor on BBC news justifying Ministers taking freebies as ok cos it’s ’in the rules’. Utterly tone deaf just like the Tories were.
A day of infamy in Washington
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A day of infamy in Washington
The old world perishes and with it dies the American Idea.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A day of infamy in Washington
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NEW: The Trump administration asks a federal judge for emergency permission to suspend funding to the FEMA shelter program that Elon Musk posted lies about storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NEW: The Trump administration asks a federal judge for emergency permission to suspend funding to the FEMA shelter program that Elon Musk posted lies about storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:
"Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law.
Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.
"Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law.
Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.
February 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:
"Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law.
Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.
"Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law.
Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.
One family of 6 from Gaza make it through the tortuous UK system designed to prevent entry alongside the boastful filming and promotion of hounding folk onto planes - I expect the Tories to play to xenophobia but Labour? Shameful ditching of values many, many fought for and died for.
February 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One family of 6 from Gaza make it through the tortuous UK system designed to prevent entry alongside the boastful filming and promotion of hounding folk onto planes - I expect the Tories to play to xenophobia but Labour? Shameful ditching of values many, many fought for and died for.
These are dangerous times. The casual bargaining over another country’s sovereignty be it Gaza, Ukraine or Greenland, apparently unchallenged by senior politicians or the media is deeply troubling. We can’t normalise this. We just can’t.
February 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
These are dangerous times. The casual bargaining over another country’s sovereignty be it Gaza, Ukraine or Greenland, apparently unchallenged by senior politicians or the media is deeply troubling. We can’t normalise this. We just can’t.
January 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Returning from a quick supermarket shop can I just thank all the shop workers for your patience in not reminding us you’re only closed for 1 day?! 🙏
December 31, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Returning from a quick supermarket shop can I just thank all the shop workers for your patience in not reminding us you’re only closed for 1 day?! 🙏
Oh dear, turns out BlueSky can be as nasty and toxic as the other one….
December 22, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Oh dear, turns out BlueSky can be as nasty and toxic as the other one….
Beautiful Argyll sky as we make our way home….
December 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Beautiful Argyll sky as we make our way home….
WASPI women betrayed, 2child cap retained and now the few pensioners who are still eligible for winter fuel payment face delays. What is Labour’s problem with older people and women? Oh, and keeping promises captured forever in those pesky photo opps….
December 18, 2024 at 8:31 AM
WASPI women betrayed, 2child cap retained and now the few pensioners who are still eligible for winter fuel payment face delays. What is Labour’s problem with older people and women? Oh, and keeping promises captured forever in those pesky photo opps….
Alongside broken promises on the 2 child cap, Labour turns its back on WASPI women now the photo ops aren’t needed. In both sets of broken promises, women suffer. They should be utterly ashamed.
December 17, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Alongside broken promises on the 2 child cap, Labour turns its back on WASPI women now the photo ops aren’t needed. In both sets of broken promises, women suffer. They should be utterly ashamed.
Even on a cold December day, our bush gives us some glorious colour
December 4, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Even on a cold December day, our bush gives us some glorious colour
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Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human
Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human
Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics
Keir Starmer’s people don’t like the word “relaunch”, but that’s what it is. On Thursday, the prime minister will give a…
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December 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human
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Prominent people in the U.K. still shilling for Trump: are they still high on the fumes inhaled when they kissed his ring or do they actually approve/not care of the sex offending, coup attempt & criminality? Or both, I suppose. I’m so naive/stupid I honestly thought they’d all abandon him on Jan 6…
BREAKING
Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a federal judge to dismiss the election interference criminal case against President-elect Trump.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a federal judge to dismiss the election interference criminal case against President-elect Trump.
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November 25, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Prominent people in the U.K. still shilling for Trump: are they still high on the fumes inhaled when they kissed his ring or do they actually approve/not care of the sex offending, coup attempt & criminality? Or both, I suppose. I’m so naive/stupid I honestly thought they’d all abandon him on Jan 6…
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‘How much for the Coronation?! The Royals aren’t parasites, they’re vampires’
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November 22, 2024 at 4:55 PM
‘How much for the Coronation?! The Royals aren’t parasites, they’re vampires’
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Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.
“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
#Newsnight
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
#Newsnight
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.