Elizabeth Rimmer

True in Scotland too.

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

BREAKING: UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful, judges rule

An attempt to pretend that a direct action group were terrorists has failed

Kudos to those who have stood up for UK protest rights

Bad news for the many authoritarians in the UK govt

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I have just become the annoying person who has a video playing on her phone full throttle on the bus. Worse, it was Rachel Reeves. Bad poet, bad poet!

Urgent message.

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

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First new GP walk-in service opens but is also not news for BBC Scotland Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. On STV News and in the Herald but, again, hidden by BBC Scotland: Patients will have access to GP-led care on the same day without an appointmen…

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Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action RESIDENT doctors have voted to accept a revised pay and contract reform offer and call off strike action

Strike action avoided in Scotland yet again but the English Health Secretary , Streeting doesn’t care about patients and waiting lists in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Well done the adults in the Scottish govt.
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
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Today is the Feast of St.Gobnait (also called Abigail) also known as Brighid of the South in Ireland. She fled to Co.Cork to escape a family feud and created a community of nuns. She's the Patron Saint of Bees and was a renowned healer, often using honey in her work.

Art by Melissa Strickler

Friends don't let friends commit genocide.

It’s a gorgeous picture, thank you, but those white flowers are wood sorrel. Aren’t they pretty, though?

Did you see all the “Countryside is too white”, “countryside is racist” hoo ha last week?

If you were anywhere near RW media or the hell site, you can’t have missed it!

Want to know where it all came from? Why there were over 30 “news” pieces about it in just 4 days?

Let’s take a look!👀

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Not to mention coorieing up to Wes Streeting, of all people! If there’s a catastrophically wrong choice to make, Sarwar is guaranteed to make it!

That reads very differently over here! Extinction can’t happen too soon for the ones we have!

This is true!

You’re okay. St Patrick’s day is in march. Good job, too!

But this is the man who demanded that his disposable playthings were ‘of good family’.

He relied on them thinking so, and moving on with an eyeroll or a slapped wrist, maybe. He was wrong.

Exactly this! My son wrote 'put Lynx Africa in the toilet facilities on the same basis, and they did, much to his embarassment.

Oh that’s lovely to hear! Thank you!

It’s quite something when a book that came out eight years ago is still selling. Haggards is on its third reprint, and I’ve just had an order for two copies!

One of our faves as well. We worked on her Wikipedia article. She was a woman of many names!
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Last waiting room I was in was full of people, many of whom had had as much experience across NHS Scotland as I have, and we all agreed the service we'd had was really impressive.

As a frequent user of 111 and having had experience across many different departments in many different hospitals, I absolutely refute this.

Israel told the UN to stay away from those areas for 9 hours while it kills all plant life. This is a war crime, and Israel is so comfortable committing war crimes that they announce them in advance.

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I’m not sure that having your head of state make juvenile self aggrandising cartoons at work is as forgivable as I’d want, even before you get to the lame excuses for racism.

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Very sad to hear about the death of Jeane Freeman. She ensured Scotland's Social Security system would be grounded in dignity, fairness and respect. A significant improvement on the DWP benefits system.

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Just wait. She won’t be in parliament after May, and I suspect they’ll find they’ve unleashed a whirlwind. And more power to her!

It was obvious at the time that eg the guys with spades parading for the cameras who never dug up anything. It was simply ritual humiliation and shame on the media for playing along.