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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 11h

Scotland didn't vote for this kind of passport - and neither (Kemi Badenoch please note) did Northern Ireland.

www.thenational.scot/news/2553511...

UK passports set for change from December – here's how

THE King’s coat of arms will be on the front of all new passports from December, the Home Office has announced.

www.thenational.scot

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 21h

I may do that, Scott. It was excellent. The question of the "audience" in statutory drafting is interesting and important. So glad you're teaching statutory drafting and interpretation in the way you are.

Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 2d

Was amused to be given the option of having a toilet seat delivered in a brown paper wrapping rather than the manufacturer's box. Offer declined. Delivery driver thereby subjected to the awful knowledge that this house probably has a toilet.
Seriously though, where does this prudishness come from?

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 2d

So people in England and Wales are now to drink their way to prosperity. Nothing could illustrate better the absurdity of going for growth of any kind at any cost.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 4d

In Scotland we only have the choice of a British media. When it comes to politics its opinion is entirely gauged through the lense of England where its based. Scotland is quite different - as this latest YouGov poll neatly illustrates.

Only independence will address this.

#OnafhankelijkheidNu

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe the Tories will send up Brit Ian to counter the appeal of Brit Keir.
www.thenational.scot/news/2552519...

Scots warned they'll 'see a lot more' of Keir Starmer ahead of Holyrood election

ARE Labour trying to throw the Holyrood election next year?

www.thenational.scot

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 3d

So, Starmer is going to be visiting Scotland more often in the months leading up to GE2026. Maybe the media could get off their arses and ask him these questions.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 3d

It seems quite possible that the whole America-harming Trumpist agenda will collapse in revulsion before the next UK general election. With it will go the political prospects of its authoritarian imitators in the UK. I cling to this hope.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 4d

I don't subscribe to a stitch-up theory but I think there is a huge reluctance to admit openly that the FWS case has made some legislation more rather than less necessary. Understandable political caution, with elections coming up, is one thing. A devious lack of openness is another.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 5d

So we don't know how the judge might have interpreted the weird drafting of reg 15 of the School Premises (Scotland) Regs 1967. That reg must pose a problem for schools. It's astonishing that the Scottish government said virtually nothing about it in its recent guidance on supporting trans pupils.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 5d

I asked the Scottish Council of Law Reporting whether there were plans to report the case of Hurley v Scottish Borders Council (on gender neutral school toilets). There are not, because "there was no opinion published ... to accompany the decision" and "it doesn't seem to exist elsewhere".

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 6d

Predictable stuff from Home Sec on Laura Kuensberg show just now - clamp down further on pro-Palestine protests. Very little, if any, recognition that Israel's atrocities in Gaza ara at the root of the deplorable and horrible rise in anti-semitism.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 6d

But then they go on to say . "Depending on the particular circumstances of individual pupils, schools may require to take legal advice on any approach or proposed approach, including where this means changing an existing arrangement."
No mention of the need to update the 1967 Regs!

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Mark English @markemuk.bsky.social · 6d

This is the road to perdition.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoyed the piece, headed "Scots once sought better lives. Now we burn hotels for housing others".

The suggestion that it should be "the some people's party" is a nice one but is maybe really saying that her party has the wrong nickname. I'd go along with that.

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 7d

Some fine oyster mushrooms on a poplar log.

Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 7d

True - esp as the new guidance mentions gender neutral facilities with approval. "Education authorities and schools should consider the toilet provision necessary for transgender pupils. This may include the use of gender neutral provision."

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 8d

Written answer 26/6/24.

"The Scottish Government intends to update the
[Regs].

Given the time elapsed between the previous consultation exercise that took place in 2017-18, we must now consider the updated context that the regulations will exist in. We are now taking this work forward."

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 8d

I've been (belatedly) looking at reg 15 of the School Premises (Scotland) Regs 1967. Strange. Half of the toilets are to be for boys. Nothing about the other half. So could gender neutral toilets be taken out of that half? Surely not - too discriminatory against girls. What a mess! Updating needed.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 9d

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit

In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 9d

Has she any idea of how this otp declaration of undying friendship for a country ruled by a genocidal regime goes down in the country at large?

"https://www.thenational.scot/news/25510910.rachel-reeves-says-will-always-friend-israel/

Rachel Reeves says she will 'always be a friend of Israel'

Rachel Reeves has said she will "always be a friend of Israel".

www.thenational.scot

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 10d

Pheasant In north Edinburgh garden . First time I’ve seen this in over 50 years,

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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 10d

Para 32 of the 2017 Consultation suggested "except
where they are provided for use by one pupil at a time. Urinals in these circumstances may no longer be necessary ..." Of course this might now be reconsidered but I hope not.
I cannot see any good objection to single user gender neutral toilets.

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