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Hall
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Equality campaigner. Trying to be as woke as possible. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Unions may be the fight back. Scientists not so much.

A really worthwhile read, if you want to prepare for the nonsense heading our way.
I've just published the sequel to this - charting the oppostion to the Trump administration's actions and what we can learn...

BlueSky thread incoming!
But here is the substack post
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig...
Watch as the penny… drops…
April 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🟦 Women have always been at the forefront of the independence movement and that is because we understand how independence offers a stronger, fairer, more equal future to us and our families.
March 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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✅ We’ve met our CAMHS targets - over 90% of those referred to CAMHS were seen within 18 weeks.

👦🏻 When it comes to child mental health, there’s always more we can do. That’s why we’ve more than doubled mental health investment since 2020/21 - to £1.3 billion next year.
March 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I get accused of making this up simply because people don’t want to admit that religion can be (and *is) forced on children in Scotland www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/03...
MSP speaks out against forced prayer in schools
SNP's Emma Roddick stresses importance of respecting children's beliefs in "an increasingly secular and religiously diverse country"
www.secularism.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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STEPHEN FLYNN ‘Starmer had better get back up off his knees and revoke that offer of a state visit.’
#SlavaUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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“Change.”

He promised it, then changed his mind.
February 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Anneliese Dodds has resigned as Minister for International Development over aid cuts.
Anneliese Dodds resigns from cabinet over aid cuts which will ‘remove food and healthcare from desperate people’
Dodds has said that increased defence spending can't be achieved through 'tactical cuts'
leftfootforward.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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As BBC UK headlines appalling cost of IVF, Scotland’s unique free 100% target-busting IVF service, saving lives and the NHS millions, year after year but to absolutely no media recognition talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/11/26/s...
Scotland’s unique free 100% target-busting IVF service, saving lives and the NHS millions, year after year but to absolutely no media recognition
The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser, closing today at 3pm, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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NEW: This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read. The McCrone Report in full
This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read: The McCrone Report in full
IMPORTANT: The McCrone Report has no paywall today. We believe it is vitally important that everybody can access it. You can support us with a…
www.thenational.scot
February 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
February 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Breaking News: Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party.
Austrian Parties Reach Deal to Form Government Without Far Right
The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This looks interesting.
US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science.

In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but *possible* future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...
A dystopian but possible future: the Fall of British Science 2028-2033
In which I think about how a UK populist government could undermine science as a way of prompting discussions about how to protect it.
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Omg - just imagine this being your country…
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I want to try something. Now less than 5k signatures away from getting a parliamentary debate on decriminalising abortion. Please share my QR code link to the petition. 💜
February 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Starmer said energy bills would fall - instead, they’re going up again.

Another broken pledge from Labour.
February 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Scottish Government budget passed:

💷 Record £21 billion for our NHS
🏠 8,000 new affordable homes
❄️ Winter Heating Payment for every pensioner household
✂️ Ending Labour’s two-child cap, lifting 15,000 kids out of poverty

This is a budget that puts Scotland’s priorities first
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Friends, who wants to be the one to get me to 96 thousand? 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
February 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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During the election, Labour promised to cut energy bills by £300.

Instead, they’ve increased them - and bills are rising again by 6.4% in April.

Scotland is an energy-rich nation and the fact we’re paying sky-high prices is Westminster failure in action. We deserve better.
February 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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This Budget, like every year, has been shaped by financial limitations imposed by Westminster. And while we do our best with the allocation we receive, the reality is that Scotland’s finances are still very much dictated by UK Government decisions.

www.thenational.scot/politics/249...
Karen Adam: The Scottish Budget is a reminder of who really controls our funding
Well, Budget season is upon us, when the Scottish Government and local authorities set out financial plans for the year ahead...
www.thenational.scot
February 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Scotland is leading the UK in green jobs adding 16,500 new roles in climate-friendly industries since 2022.

A greener economy means lower energy bills, better energy security, healthier communities, and long-term job growth.

Scotland isn’t just keeping up, we’re leading the way.
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
February 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM