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Who Owns Scotland 2025 - Land Matters SCOTLAND’S CONCENTRATED PATTERN OF LANDOWNERSHIP CONTINUES TO GET WORSE Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, the second annual report on landownership in Scotland. The first (Who Owns Scotland 2024...

Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, an annual analysis of landownership across rural Scotland. The most significant finding is the continuing trend over past 15 years of fewer and fewer owners owning more and more of rural Scotland. andywightman.scot/2026/02/who-...

@nytimes.com I'm in Scotland, not England. Please check your geography 😳

Why Have British Feminists Successfully Resisted the Erasure of Sex? - Fairer Disputations British feminists have mounted some of the strongest resistance in the world to the demand that self-identified gender should override biological sex. Over the last decade, the UK has seen a revival o...

First post! Someone on X asked me share this here so here goes: my piece for US feminist website Fairer Disputations, about UK's sex-based rights movement and why 'gender' on its own doesn't cut it fairerdisputations.org/british-femi...

Large-scale Rural Land Sales 2023 - Land Matters Today I am publishing a report analysing large-scale (over 500 ha) sales of rural land in 2023. This follows a previous report covering 2020 - 2022. During 2023, 17 landholdings of over 500 ha changed...

BLOG - I have today published an analysis of large-scale land transfers in 2023. This follows previous analysis of 2020-2022 transfers. For the first time, the findings diverge from those of the @scottishlandcom.bsky.social andywightman.scot/2025/05/larg...

Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled

This is *really* important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables.

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Strange that there's nothing here about single-sex care on request for the mostly female victims of sexual assault. Are you avoiding the issue, just like you've avoided publicly supporting Sandie Peggie?

Today I declined an invitation to address a group of members of a professional body as part of their CPD programme. "As a membership body we do not offer a fee." - unlike their members whose fees can be in the in the £ hundreds per hour!

I’m ashamed of what I said about Blake Lively. Her allegations should shock us all | Laura Snapes A complaint filed by the actor against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni paints a disturbing picture, says Guardian deputy music editor Laura Snapes

#Baldoni positioned himself as a #feminist ally engaged with domestic violence issues

Perpetrators promoting themselves as protectors is another one of the many ways they can continue their abuse of women

Safety I Support I Advocacy I Empowerment

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