James McEnaney

'I also think things have gone too far. I also want my country back. But I can't possibly be motivated by things like racism, and I wouldn't support a racist campaign, so that can't be the explanation for all this.'

I don't know why some people are so desperate to believe otherwise* but the flags on the streets are definitely driven by racism.

*I do know why - they agree with the sentiment but don't like being called racist

Why Scotland must make sex and relationships education mandatory to protect pupils Scotland’s patchy sex and relationships education is leaving young people unsafe. Why mandatory, consistent teaching is essential to protect all…

At some point in the near future, a bunch of men with domestic abuse convictions will be telling you sex ed in schools is a threat to women and girls.

The exact opposite is true.

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2567...

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Self-ID for left handed to be ended.

Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.

Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.

NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.

Move praised by charity Right Matters

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?

Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

Is the SQA being replaced or is this just a rebrand? Scotland's 'new' exam board begins work today, but are we going to see meaningful change or more of the same?

Has the SQA been replaced or simply rebranded? Officials at the exam board say it's the former, but critics are a long way from convinced.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2566657...

Rachel Reeves mugs the youth Young workers are coughing up for state pensions

"We will have an economy in which the full-time work of some young people will pay less than the state pensions of retirees, and yet it is the young people who will be taxed."

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Honestly stopped dead when I read that. No idea who is doing the research but that sentence is a long way from accurate.

You want to know how I remember this? Because after days of Swinney defending the indefensible, I'm the one who wrote the question that made that impossible. I told a presenter to ask Swinney if he could look individual kids in the face and say the algorithm was fair.

The answer was obvious.

Did John Swinney write this or something? The SQA deserves a HUGE amount of criticism for 2020 but John Swinney as the saviour? When he backed the algorithm and spent a week defending it?

SNP councillor accuses party colleagues of 'witch hunt' The councillor says that her local party leader is trying to silence her, but insists that she will not be bullied or intimidated.

Yesterday I revealed that an SNP council leader had removed an SNP councillor from a key committee role and handled it to an Independent councillor who is also a Labour member.

Today, the SNP councillor in question speaks out 👇

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2565716...

'These concerns don’t deserve to be taken seriously, and anyone pretending otherwise – perhaps out of fear, or convenience, or the pursuit of online clicks – is a coward' || @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social

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Our manifesto was clear: Labour will deliver day one rights.

Accepting amendments to drop that commitment risks entrenching insecurity and delaying meaningful reform.

5/11

It's 'call a spade a spade' time with this stuff. These people don't care about protecting kids - they care about hatred.

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2565...

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Spot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!

SNP leader strips colleague of key post and hands control to Labour-tied independent An SNP council leader has removed a party colleague from a key post and given the role to a Labour-linked independent, prompting concern over the…

An SNP council leader has stripped an SNP councillor of a key role chairing an important committee - and then handed the position to a member of the Labour Party.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2565427...

'A book is such a simple gift. But it’s also a really powerful thing, and it’s such a small ask'

Children's Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social backs The Herald's Christmas appeal, in association with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 👇

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Author Frank Cottrell-Boyce supports The Herald's Christmas appeal, in association with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal

Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

SPFL announce 'groundbreaking' Scottish football pyro programme The SPFL have announced the Pyrotechnics Education Programme, an initiative which has been labelled as a first in European football.

This will be a waste of time and energy because the people using pyro in stadiums are arseholes who don't give a shit about others. Just ban them from stadiums for life and be done with it.

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256479...

Twenty years since I had to sit and listen to David Miliband pretending that postponing council tax revaluation was a brave political decision, rather than a cowardly mistake.

if people are really giving out advice like this then making them thoroughly ashamed of themselves is a necessary act of self-preservation for our vocation, because the moment they become a majority it's time to pack it all up, game over

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

First the anti-foreigner crowd went after hotels, and now they're going after schools, and people with a platform who refuse to call it out are guilty of appalling cowardice.

The irony, adults who clearly need adult learning complaining about adult learning being made available to adults who need and appreciate adult learning.

There's no reason for the council to agree to sit down with a mob like this, and no amount of answers that will ever satisfy them anyway. Sometimes you just need to decide that you shouldn't set public policy on whims of idiots or bigots.