@l-areid.bsky.social
Retired Headteacher. Love reading and walking. Worried about our changing climate.
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Excellent article as usual from @neilmackay.bsky.social Will be using it for discussion at next branch meeting. The ten stages of genocide show we are well on our way already. Discrimination, dehumanisation, polarisation, preparation, persecution, denial and extermination. 🥲
Scotland’s leading academic on refugees warns that British political rhetoric is taking the UK ‘into the foothills of genocide’
Professor Alison Phipps, Unesco chair in refugee integration at Glasgow University, says demonisation will end in deaths
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...
Professor Alison Phipps, Unesco chair in refugee integration at Glasgow University, says demonisation will end in deaths
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...
Professor Alison Phipps: "We’re in foothills of genocide" as far-right threat grows
Professor Alison Phipps is the nation’s foremost authority on asylum. She tells our Writer at Large demonisation has gone too far and Westminster…
www.heraldscotland.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Excellent article as usual from @neilmackay.bsky.social Will be using it for discussion at next branch meeting. The ten stages of genocide show we are well on our way already. Discrimination, dehumanisation, polarisation, preparation, persecution, denial and extermination. 🥲
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social saw this on Crinan canal. Can you identify??
July 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social saw this on Crinan canal. Can you identify??
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I’m back to daily blocking. Thought it might be better in the blue!
November 25, 2024 at 10:37 AM
I’m back to daily blocking. Thought it might be better in the blue!
Discovered who I am! 🤣
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 25, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Discovered who I am! 🤣
I’m here!! Hoping for lots of positivity!
November 17, 2024 at 10:56 AM
I’m here!! Hoping for lots of positivity!