edscouse.bsky.social

edscouse.bsky.social

@edscouse.bsky.social

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You know what we don't talk enough about? Stars in Their Eyes does Band Aid All the stars are here. Bassey, Jagger, Cliff, Elton, Tina Turner, George Michael, Hucknall, Lennon & McCartney, Bryan Ferry, De Burgh... Fred West as Tom Jones. 📣We UsED tO bE a pRoPEr CoUnTRy

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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

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For any Blues travelling up to the match at Murrayfield, the Edinburgh Festival will be on and the hotels will be extortionately priced. When I travelled more for work there in August, I'd stay in Glasgow and take the train.

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Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

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Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

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Whenever I read yet another story about the Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa it astonishes me that the fact that we now know the SNP rigged the procurement for political purposes and faked a launch for political purposes hasn't disqualified them from government for a generation. It's pure corruption.

scotsman.comGlen Sannox's repairs extended to 4 months with parts stripped from Glen RosaArran vessel not now due back in service until March

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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

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I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed. 1. The Aesthetics Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/

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Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

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Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

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The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is a top target seat for the Scottish Liberal Democrats. We won the equivalent seat at Westminster last year. Scotland deserves better and people in the Highlands know that our hardworking champion Andrew Baxter is best placed to beat the SNP.

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Here's the latest (oddly, not reported by the BBC, which has otherwise obsessively covered this - how curious!) on some that Scottish Labour figures like Anas Sarwar, Jackie Baillie, Claire Baker and Melanie Ward have fallen over themselves to back. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

thecourier.co.ukEXCLUSIVE: NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie mocked victims of Pakistan floods in series of racist postsThe offensive messages emerged in an evidence bundle seen by The Courier at the tribunal in Dundee.

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"Let it rip" is always a bad idea for containing epidemics. It's a REALLY bad idea for containing H5N1 in chickens. Besides the obvious biosafety issues, it has terrible ecological, economic, & food security consequences as well. Must-read in @science.org today 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgThe consequences of letting avian influenza run rampant in US poultryThe approach proposed by a high-ranking US government official would be dangerous and unethical