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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · 19h

🤣🤣🤣 I will tell you this boy, she was some chanter! Some chanter! 🤣🤣🤣

Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · 20h

At what stage of the menopause am I at when the waft of a McDonald's chicken nugget took me straight to 1991 and unlocked all the lyrics to Beverley Craven's "Promise Me" and now I'm sitting greeting and sooking on a mint Aero?

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Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me · 1d

This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.

Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 27d

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Jul 12

I'm pretty sure there's folk in Scotland would do the same thing if they had a suitable "excuse" - it's so thoroughly depressing.

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Jun 29

Are you drinking with Arnold Brown?

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · May 27

Such a man of the people - he'd know that Channel 4 haven't shown horse racing since 2016. Total fraud.

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · May 27

Nigel Farage shows himself a fraud challenging Starmer to join him in a Working Man's Club for a pint and watch Channel 4 Racing. Channel 4 hasn't shown horse racing since 2016.

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · May 13

📣Love comedy, hate racism? We're delighted that weegie comedian @scottagnew.bsky.social joins the line-up for the #StopReform summit

📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow city centre
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-refor...

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · May 8

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · May 8

Tonight Matthew...

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · May 7

"Francis - get the door!"

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · Apr 30

C҉a҉n҉ y҉o҉u҉ t҉r҉u҉s҉t҉ y҉o҉u҉r҉s҉e҉l҉f҉?

Come find out at my Open House in London next Wednesday from 4PM! 🏠

Everyone's welcome - I can't wait to see you and celebrate the release of my new single This Perfect Friend ☀️

ttikaram.lnk.to/TPF

Love, Tanita 🫶

#newmusic

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 30

It would be good if at least some of the energy poured into scrutinising hateful past comments by Irish hiphop groups could be focused on what is currently going on inside the main party currently leading all of the UK opinion polls bylinetimes.com/2025/04/30/r...

Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories

Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to "dilute out country with foreign invaders"

bylinetimes.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 26

We'd also like to see messages or signs from employers or service providers that stop trans people using single sex spaces.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 26

Meanwhile, if you get stopped please document what happened and contact us at Good Law Project. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/

Contact | Good Law Project

Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

goodlawproject.org

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 24

Watching the Pope lying in state to get a swatch at the Italian men going by. "Ciao gallina!"

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yes! Old Saabs! Which are gorgeous things of beauty. Probably right hanging off hoping for a product placement deal for something shiny and new.

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 24

Can anyone tell me the reason behind this trend on telly drama for the main protagonist driving a wildly out of date motor vehicle? The boxy Volvo estate of the 70s and 80s seems to pop up a lot, for example Black Mirror and Fear. But it seems to be there's an epidemic of auld motors on the telly.

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · Apr 24

Is me! I am very, very grateful to the many amazing people – musicians, music fans, grassroots groups and more – who were so generous with their time and wisdom. And I'm very grateful to the people saying nice things about it.

404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy publication day to @carriem.co.uk and Small Town Joy!

Get it now: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...

Mock up of book cover for Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall. It looks like a cassette tape with yellow and pink, with a person playing bass guitar on the front.

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 24

Aww congratulations and happy publication day Carrie! ❤️

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Apr 23

This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones:

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · Apr 23

The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.

my latest for @thenation.com

The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women

Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

www.thenation.com

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join me celebrating 25 years on stage next Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday, May 3rd from 7.30pm at Blackfriars of Bell Street, Glasgow

Two and a half decades of laughs and prolapses, restrooms and resurrections - a one off special not to be missed.

www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...

Scott Agnew: The Silver Jubilee Show at The Comedy Cabaret Glasgow Blackfriars Of Bell St

THE comedian marks 25 years since first stepping on stage. All the hits! All the gossip! All the questions! After 25 years at the top/bottom/vers.

www.skiddle.com

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Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social · Apr 16

Didn't think some people would see that as a challenge rather than something to be proud of. Heartbreaking.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · Apr 1

Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

t.co/LeABrGqDei

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