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Deputy chair @welfare.scot #ChronicPain/ #Type1 Scottish Parliament CPG Chronic Pain 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

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We’re joining the Big Issue to urge the government to set child poverty targets. Read our open letter at https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/big-issue-leads-call-government-targets-child-poverty-strategy/

We’re joining the Big Issue to urge the government to set child poverty targets. Read our open letter at https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/big-issue-leads-call-government-targets-child-poverty-strategy/

Today we join the @bigissue.com and 65 other signatories in an open letter urging the UK Govt to set child poverty targets in the upcoming child poverty strategy.

The Guardian covered it here - www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

You can read the full letter at www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

31.10.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to confirm that ScotGovt have replied to confirm they have no intention to change Scots law to mirror UK Govt plans to give powers to police in E&W to prohibit repeated protests. #HumanRights #Protest #Scotland

31.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.

08.10.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Scotland thrives because people choose to make it their home. Migration isn’t something to fear, it’s the lifeblood of our communities and keeps our cities alive, our towns dynamic, and our society forward-looking. It’s one of Scotland’s greatest assets and we should be celebrating that!

30.09.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Image shows screenshot of app screen from Medtronic App. Showing that the app doesnt support new version of Android 

"Unfortunately the app doesn't work with the current android version (16) on your mobile device.

Image shows screenshot of app screen from Medtronic App. Showing that the app doesnt support new version of Android "Unfortunately the app doesn't work with the current android version (16) on your mobile device.

Good morning world. So my phone updated and in news that is likely to shock no one medtronic doesn't support it.

I wonder how many months it will take them too update the app as they only seem interested in 🍎 users.

Not all #diabetics use Apple decides.

#diabetestech

26.09.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She's looking great Wish I was aging as well.

19.09.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So true

18.09.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
19.09.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
19.09.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hardly surprising when Farage’s colleagues from UKIP used to blame traffic jams on immigrants and freak weather phenomena on β€˜Gods wrath’ due to acceptance of LGBT+ people.

18.09.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years On I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. In movies, when hope sparks…

Eleven years on from the referendum, and that girl in the picture breaks my heart. What a world we could have had.

I wrote this last year about what hope is and how it feels to me. The last few paragraphs make this year's me weep.

graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/t...

18.09.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
18.09.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning world.

What are you all upto today?

18.09.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He was the first Dr I truly remember watching.

He was in the seminary with my secondary school priest. He left as he wanted to try acting.

It really worked out for him.

18.09.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shows how scared they are of loosing there seats. Especially too Reform.

17.09.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leaked texts show Tory MSP begging Reform campaigner not to stand in election LEAKED texts have revealed that Aberdeen Tory MSP Liam Kerr privately begged a local Reform UK campaigner not to stand ...

www.thenational.scot/news/2547416...

17.09.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is ridiculous in the extreme. The fact the Tangerine Tyrant is over here (despite most of us being in opposition to it and only 16% of Brits having a positive view of Trump) and the police are doing everything they can to remove any visible opposition is pathetic.

17.09.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thousands of opioid deaths missed off official figures The error - affecting England and Wales - raises concerns about the impact on the government's approach to drug deaths.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 13,000 heroin and opioid deaths have been missed off official statistics in England and Wales, raising concerns about the impact on the government's approach to tackling addiction.

17.09.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It certainly would be interesting seeing how they would spin it.

17.09.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’d be anxious about how many serving officers would be flagged as attendees.

17.09.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He is a legend and really nice man.

17.09.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

More of this, Israel needs to feel the full consequences of its genocidal rampage

17.09.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

She actually thinks the Nazis supported trans people. I suppose being thicker than a Burns Night turd is an advantage when you're as much of a raging bigot as she is.

17.09.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Florence Pugh speaks up at the "Together for Palestine" fundraiser:

"Silence in the face of such suffering is not neutrality, it is complicity. Pressure on the governments."

When will the world see what is happening, More importantly when will they admit what is happening?

#Gaza #FreePalestine

17.09.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He probably thinks it what Charlie would have wanted.

16.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two stuffed animals are sitting in front of a bookshelf . Alt: Statler and Waldorf Muppet character Sitting in front of a book case laughing.
16.09.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This man will be missed. Such a voice of reason and good in this horrible world we live in.

16.09.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow's front page πŸ“°

End the denial

16.09.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Oh look, another bold-faced lie from JD Vance.

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