#Scottish

the shocking contrast between ungrazed hazelwoods in Ireland (left) and heavily deer grazed hazelwoods in the Scottish Highlands (right). unnaturally heavy grazing has stripped away so much life, and its
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There is a way of illustrating how Brexit politics and then also Covid politics may have shifted perceptions about risk of independence among the Scottish electorate. Namely through the stark
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Today, 6th of April 2020, marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath (1320), one of the most important documents in Scottish history. Here's a wee thread, from someone
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@douglas86005628 @KemiBadenoch #Backto60 #50sWomen @CedawPT Question to Douglas Ross Leader Scottish Cons. Party Leader today. Should CEDAW be incorporated into UK domestic law? “Yes-We should not & cannot & must
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So here's where we're at:Scotland: received 10million items of PPE Saturday after Scot Gov bypassed UK procurement, chartered flights & directly sourced from China (same as Ireland does & is
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It's the #ScoutTaskmaster final this week - you've got until Thursday, 8.30pm to get evidence to the Taskmaster. 10 Tasks to choose from - do as many as you like
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Strongly considering using St. George’s Day to tweet out ideas on English devolution - not that I don’t do shit like that already Now I’m on to endlessly redrafting a
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Walking round the estate on our state-sanctioned Boris-hour today, I am reminded why @UKLabour desperately need to get over their aversion to Englishness and its expression of identity. So many
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THREADNow that the Scottish election has been settled it is imperative that the Justice Secretary sorts out the resilience fund and the wider issues affecting the profession as a matter
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''UEFA can reject if there's public perception of unfairness'' eh?@UEFA, let us introduce you to an organisation called SPFL and how they brought Scottish football to its knee. Shame if
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I've been doing some research for a future book on Anglophobia in Scotland. I thought I'd share some findings. A thread on Anglophobia and its relationship with Scottish nationalism (lower
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'Legal documents reveal Scottish ministers and the Lord Advocate, the country's top law officer, said it would be inappropriate for Martin Keatings to purse the challenge because he's not an
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Equality of access is at the heart of the Scot gov policies. It’s what sets Scotland apart. So, as the third wheel in this two horse race, let me say
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It's clear that both Scottish and UK governments are struggling to supply sufficient PPE to front line workers, so can we knock off the facile point scoring, accept that it's
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It doesn’t bother me when an actor from UK or Australia etc plays an iconic American figure as long as the performance is good. But I do sometimes wonder if
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UK Gov were never going to simply shut down the Scottish Parl they were always going to effectively achieve the same result in an underhand way. That’s what the Internal
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