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Glasgow / Fife & Angus Katılım Aralık 2021
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
Half of all 2002/3-born Welsh children were granted SEN provision. However, against a backdrop of compounding dysfunction in Scotland and England, Wales turned the ship around. How 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 grasped the nettle and fixed its special needs system: a comprehensive summary. 🧵1/25
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max tempers@maxtempers

Onward don't seem to recognise that half of all Welsh children have special needs! Cut the education system some slack.

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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
All terrible. Name it after the nearest place/parish, or a local feature/characteristic. Nansledan was good because it incorporated the nearby topography. We don't need to be New World by naming things derivatively. "Aethelstan" is obviously not a place name either. Very poor.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]

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Stakeholder Consultant
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus·
>we only have to be lucky once Woooaah! Cool quote! >is never lucky
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Andrew Learmonth
Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
@Tim_ODoherty @SommervilleLeo That's giving me the fear. Six switchers are Russell Findlay, Collette Stevenson, Audrey Nicol, Jamie Hepburn, Daniel Johnson and Brian Whittle. Neil Gray abstained last May too.
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Andrew Learmonth
Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
NEW: Brian Whittle becomes sixth MSP to withdraw support for assisted dying Bill. On current numbers, it’s now effectively 63–63. In a tie, the Presiding Officer uses her casting vote and by convention backs the status quo, meaning, if numbers above are right, the Bill falls
Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth

Daniel Johnson confirms he will vote against the assisted dying Bill tonight. By my reckoning, if just one more MSP who backed it at Stage 1 switches, and no one moves from no to yes, the Bill is likely to fall.

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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@andrewlearmonth @SommervilleLeo BBC's Sim reported 63 against pre-Whittle, including Daniel Johnson (is he part of the five switchers?). 63+1=64. Neil Gray's abstaining too, no?
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Andrew Learmonth
Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
@SommervilleLeo Here's my working... Stage 1: 70 - 56 6 switchers: 64- 62 Colin Smyth not voting: 63 - 62 Davy Russell voting no: 63 - 63
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
Glasgow, 2009. There is nothing in this picture which exists today.
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@KyleButcher @baylissbaghdad @FurtherOr @ElfordJon @TheCriticMag I feel I should accept some blame for this one! I always try to present the most nuanced/accurate summary. I'm glad Tom/Times/the Spec got the word out but yes, there were frequent (understandable) conflations re funding, HTST etc. Policy->journalism often lost in translation.
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Kyle Butcher
Kyle Butcher@KyleButcher·
@baylissbaghdad @FurtherOr @ElfordJon @TheCriticMag I didn't happen to have some high specific specialist knowledge I'd have taken it at face value as well-evidenced and well-argued and accepted the conclusions. Tom obviously ISNT setting out to be a charlatan! But it was a well-meaning set of /... x.com/KyleButcher/st…
Kyle Butcher@KyleButcher

@tomhfh The problem with the Wales comparision is that – whilst welcome – it hasn't actually had all that much follow through impact on the *public spending* on SEND. This is illustrated by the Home to School Transport expenditure, for one example👇 The reasons for this are complex 1/2

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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@Joe___Allen One 73-const region with 56 topups. Every party leaflet blithely calling 99% of the election in a scramble for seat 129. Campaigners urging tilting marginals to vote against them to avoid d'Hondt penalisation. Paralysed stalemate until polling day. Arithmetically-enforced purdah.
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Joe Allen
Joe Allen@Joe___Allen·
@Tim_ODoherty Haha. I'm in favour of increasing the complexity until all parties are forced to say it's a black box and we have no idea.
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Joe Allen@Joe___Allen·
The "X can't win here" leaflets are very hard to do under Wales's new electoral system ⬇️
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@aodanhill When I saw Dylan in Nov (Armadillo) I thought the crowd were exceptionally well-behaved. Clapped politely, only very hushed chat, discreet rising for drink. When I spoke to someone from the other side they said it was the worst behaviour they'd ever seen! Evidently very variable.
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Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@JHenryCDF YouGov's methodology is extremely erratic and bizarre in fairness to Reform.
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Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@winstan9871 @Vote_HQ A wipeout, even in just a third of the wards, would be sufficient to erase the majority in many though.
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Breno333
Breno333@winstan9871·
@Vote_HQ Have you factored in that only a 1/3rd of councillors or up for reelection in many Labour councils. Even if they lost most wards they wouldn’t lose control of the council
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
@DPJHodges The Reform vote is comparatively solid. The Tory/Lab vote is very very soft.
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney@PaulJSweeney·
I asked the First Minister for an assurance that conservation-accredited registered engineers with the right expertise would be brought in to assess the remaining elevation to Gordon Street for any possibility of its preservation or careful dismantling for future reinstatement. I also contacted Glasgow City Council’s Head of Building Control on Monday to introduce a conservation-accredited engineer and architect who have offered their support to assess the remaining structure, but we have yet to receive any response. It is therefore disappointing that Glasgow City Council, who have no in-house conservation-accredited engineers, have condemned this listed building to a full demolition within a matter of hours of the site being handed over, without first undertaking this prudent step, which has been the subject of a long-running campaign for reform in the Scottish Parliament. Like at the Ayr Station Hotel, elements of this iconic listed building which could be preserved may now be destroyed unnecessarily. I hope that Glasgow City Council will at least laser scan the surviving elevation to enable a faithful reinstatement and undertake a careful hand demolition process that can 'flat pack' as much of the surviving structure as possible if a retaining scaffolding cannot be erected to all or part of the façade.
Glasgow City Council@GlasgowCC

❗Union Street Incident – Update – Thurs 12 Mar 2026 We're now in control of Union St. site & after a full & final assessment of the remaining structure, we have decided that demolition must happen in interests of public safety. Look out for updates ➡️ ow.ly/4Obb50YsNUS

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Cromwell's Redoubt
Cromwell's Redoubt@CromRedoubt·
@FennellJW It is incredible the degree to which mass culture like this just no longer exists. There are no era defining artisits anymore
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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
Kenmure Street was a disaster. In a sane world it would have been condemned universally from the right to the centre-left. No better than PalAct thuggery.
The Herald@heraldscotland

Hugh Bonneville has been named as an executive producer of the feature documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street, which depicts the events of May 13, 2021, when a crowd of activists and community members in Pollokshields successfully blocked the deportation of two Sikh men. The Paddington and Downton Abbey actor, who has publicly supported social causes including the pro-Palestine movement, said he was 'delighted' to back the Sundance award-winning film. 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬/𝘗𝘈 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

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Tim Doherty
Tim Doherty@Tim_ODoherty·
A fun exercise to work out how many handshakes you are from big historical/modern figures. I've got mine down to: Churchill - 3 Hitler - 4 Napoleon - 5 Shakespeare - 10 Lincoln - 5 Grey - 5 Washington - 8 Putin - 3 Elizabeth I - 9 Mao - 4
Will Lloyd@Will___lloyd

Delightful @AndrewMarr9 anecdote from this week’s magazine - how he found himself a mere two handshakes away from William Gladstone

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James Heale
James Heale@JAHeale·
News: the Hereditary Peers Bill has tonight finally passed the Lords, ending centuries of tradition. Expect a handful of life peerages for a smattering of hereds.
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