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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 1d

After almost 50 years, the Scottish Government is finally revisiting the rights of children and parents to opt out of religious observance in schools. But somehow, ministers have managed to bungle what ought to be a basic question of children's rights. www.thenational.scot/news/2551810...

Andrew Tickell: Scotland’s schools still force children to pray. That needs to change

MY wee sister will never forgive me. In the early 2000s, you apparently couldn’t have a school assembly without involving God, prayers and Bible…

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 2d

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Lecturer in Law (1.0FTE) at Glasgow Caledonian University

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 5d

I've also written more academically about this phenomenon and the inevitable auction effects of passing legislation promising special recognition. Can you blame campaigners for asking “If MSPs feel retail workers’ pain, why won’t they feel mine”? researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/publicati...

“We feel your pain”: the politics of recognition, fair labelling and the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 5d

I did ponder sticking in evidence about it, but it would be a doomed grumping exercise I reckoned!

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 5d

So Holyrood has unanumously decided to pass legislation to make it a criminal offence to steal dogs. Exactly how recriminalising behaviour which is already criminal "strengthens the law" is a question for the philosophers. A throwback rant from 2023: andrewtickell.co.uk/2023/09/03/o...

On dog-napping

Herald on Sunday, Sunday National, 3rd September 2023. We’ve always had black Schnauzers. Niamh was our first dog. She was a giant. We chose her partly because we then lived in rural mid-Argy…

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 10d

Should it be any mitigation, for someone who kills their partner to say "I just snapped when I found out they cheated on me"? As Scots law stands, "provocation by sexual infidelity" reduces murder to culpable homicide. This archaic doctrine needs repealed.
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Andrew Tickell: Mitigation for adultery is an anomaly that must be abolished

IN January 1941, Alexander Hill received a letter from his wife Alice. Hill was corporal in the military police, stationed in England. Alice lived…

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 13d

The Scottish Law Commission recommend significant reforms to the Scots law of homicide. www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/3017/5...

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 22d

A... remarkable new @walesgovernance.bsky.social ITV Wales @yougov.co.uk poll of Welsh voting intentions for the next Senedd election (changes since May)

- Plaid 30% (-)
- Reform 29% (+4)
- Labour 14% (-4)
- Cons 11% (-2)
- Lib Dems 6% (-1)
- Green 6% (+1)
- Other 4% (+2)

#Senedd #devolution

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 22d

A wheen of amendments to be considered in Holyrood this week, as the Victims, Witnesses and Criminal Justice Bill reaches its third and final stage of scrutiny. www.parliament.scot/-/media/file...

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 24d

"The grotesque chaos of a Labour government - a Labour government..."

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Andrew Tickell: The absolute chaos brought by Keir Starmer’s government

IT’S now a moderately notorious tweet. During the first couple of weeks of the new Labour administration, as new-minted Labour ministers were…

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 27d

Inquiry to hold event in Scotland to explore how Horizon scandal impacted communities www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/news/inquiry...

Inquiry to hold event in Scotland to explore how Horizon scandal impacted communities | Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

Sub-postmasters, families and community members are invited to Edinburgh to share how the Scottish communities were impacted by the scandal.11 September 2025

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 7

Why did Ian Murray get the heave-ho as Secretary of State for Scotland, and just why did Keir Starmer choose Douglas Alexander as his successor?

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Andrew Tickell: Sacking Ian Murray won’t solve Labour’s problems in Scotland

WHAT did Ian Murray do wrong? At the start of the week, the extraction of Angela Rayner from the UK Government looked eminently foreseeable given…

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 5

On a day where Rayner's resignation was at least forseeable, was anyone contemplating the Secretary of State for Scotland getting jotters too? I'm a but puzzled about the internal party rationale for Starmer shooting Ian Murray back into orbit now. Theories on a postcard please.

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today, the Post Office scandal inquiry has published a short report on the health and wellbeing impacts of the scandal on people affected by it. www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Holyrood, the third and final stage of the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill has now been scheduled for the 16th and 17th of September. www.parliament.scot/bills-and-la...

Victims Witnesses and Justice Reform Scotland Bill

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 1

The judicial review may also surface another important aspect to this action which the media mostly haven't cottoned on to - the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service support the SPF arguments that Bracadale is tainted by apparent bias. www.thenational.scot/politics/252...

Andrew Tickell: Bayoh inquiry at a crossroads and Crown Office must make a decision

Is the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry about to collapse? You wouldn’t know it from the muted coverage over the last couple of weeks...

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Sep 1

Important story rather buried in the Sunday Mail yesterday - Scottish Police Federation make good on their earlier threat to challenge Lord Bracadale's apparent bias in judicial review petition to Court of Session. www.scottishlegal.com/articles/pol...

Police seek to oust Lord Bracadale from Sheku Bayoh inquiry

Police have launched legal proceedings against the Sheku Bayoh inquiry in a dispute over the impartiality of its chair, Lord Bracadale. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF), which represents rank-and-...

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Social media isn't the primary engineroom of ethnic and religious divisions in the UK. Our feral press is.” Today's Herald on Sunday / Sunday National column.

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Andrew Tickell: Britain’s toxic press is the real driver of division in this country

ONE thing people get wrong about the “24-hour news cycle” is the idea that every story is now just an evanescent thing – here today, gone…

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · Aug 30

Door furniture in Greek Thomson's Great Western Terrace (no. IV).
#Glasgow #architecture #photography

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...