Lesley A Ross
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Lesley A Ross
@lesleyaross
Tourism and Tennis
United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2011
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Travel Secrets Podcast: Insta ::
“Simon Le Bon, @yasminlebon,
@rosalind.eleazar and @rosemaryferguson_ all agree. It's the wilderness, it's the people... and if these clips don't make you want to pack your suitcase and go, I don't know what will!” —
@travelsecretsthepodcast
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Travel Secrets Podcast : Insta: Scotland ❤️
instagram.com/reel/DYpRfQ5DL…
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The city. The stage. The summer. 🌇🎻
Welcome to the Edinburgh International Festival, the one that started it all. Where the world's greatest artists meet their audiences, every August in Edinburgh.
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@MercuriusFilius What markup (profit) is required? The cost of each item is easy, the price depends on the markup.
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@getmegxitdone @Philip__Hills @GermanEmbassy @SueHincks @UKinGermany Yes the Saxons were from northern Germany The Angles/Anglr however, were from the southern mainland of Denmark.
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Germany is celebrating the late Queen!
A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.
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@Andreas64355458 @NancyRPearcey @ksorbs The Norwegian Vikings colonised Iceland and the Faroe Islands whereupon they were also known as Norse.
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@Andreas64355458 @NancyRPearcey @ksorbs Vikingr (single) Vikingar/Vikinger (plural) was Old Norse & effectively a job title meaning seafarer/trader/raider/pirate (depending on context & viewpoint). They came from the coastal inlets/fjords. Norse was the name for Norwegians - later used more broadly for Scandinavians.
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Thomas Sowell: ”If you’re going to have reparations for slavery, it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth, because the number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States.”
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@opinologasocial @aFoolNotorious @jamesgraysport Wrong ! Raducanu has beaten Sakkari, Navarro and Pegula when they were all top ten players.
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@aFoolNotorious @jamesgraysport It's like saying Ana Kalinskaya is the best or good just because of her ranking, without having won anything significant! It has to be a joke. Raducanu has never beaten a top ten player, or even a good player below that, how is that possible?
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Emma Raducanu's 2026 season in brief: new coach hired, foot injury, early Australian Open exit, coach sacked, going solo, illness, first-round exits.
The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore.
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@jamesgraysport Roig was hired in 2025 (not 2026) with a contract running through until completion of the Aus Open. Emma Raducanu is still the top performing 🇬🇧 UK player on the WTA tour.
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@DarknessXtreme @Ollymurspri @annfren27713082 @s4mp_JermarJS90 @blackishpress “John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs” 👉👉 variety.com/2026/film/awar…
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QME
David Banner talks about the situation that occurred with Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the BAFTA awards
"White people do for white people, and I don't know why we're surprised about it. I wouldn't go back again if I was there, because if they really respected Black people, they would make sure that we were protected. If it really meant something to them, they would have made sure that nobody else heard that. They had the power to edit that. And i'm tired of Black people always having to take it. I don't know if I would have took it the same way, and maybe that's why I'm not in the same position."
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@DarknessXtreme @Ollymurspri @annfren27713082 @s4mp_JermarJS90 @blackishpress “A STATEMENT FROM BAFTA”
👉👉 bafta.org/media-centre/p…
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@DarknessXtreme @Ollymurspri @annfren27713082 @s4mp_JermarJS90 @blackishpress BBC sorry for airing racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's at Baftas
👉👉 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@PoAndNoLongCare @jomanka100 @Ace109610 On Monday, the day after the BAFTA event, John Davidson reached out to apologise privately Jordan, Lindo & Hannah.
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@jomanka100 @Ace109610 I learned more than enough. You guys need to take some diverstiy training to understand Y the N word is so offensive and a apology was warranted. A disability is not an excuse to not apologize for harm when u have the mental capicity to understand the harm your words caused.
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Watched it 2nd time on I Swear
I’m telling you when this comes out in America that people will feel guilty
The story on John Davidson is remarkable
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@WaldronLewis He has Tourette for over 30yrs, that's enough time to understand the tics,if that's impossible, he could have done the right thing by apologizing,
Since he refused to apologize, insisting he is a victim, it's evidence he collaborated with BBC to scream kneega for movie marketing
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>be John Davidson
>born 1971
>Galashiels, Scotland
>working class family in the Scottish Borders
>football-mad kid
>just wants to be a goalkeeper
1983:
>you're 12
>a scout is coming to watch you play
>this is your shot
>then something happens
>your body starts doing things you can't control
>tics
>involuntary vocalisations
>noises you didn't choose
>head teacher's response: whip your hands with a belt
>you perform badly
>dad leaves shortly after
>you walk into a river
>you're 12
school:
>no diagnosis
>no framework
>just a kid who "can't behave"
>mocked daily
>leave at 16
>no qualifications
>the world has decided what you are
1989:
>BBC comes to Galashiels
>films your life
>"John's Not Mad"
>airs nationally
>some people feel compassion
>most kids use it as ammunition
>your face becomes shorthand for mockery in playgrounds across the country
>you know this
>you keep going
the wilderness years:
>no diagnosis until you're 25
>25 years old before anyone gives it a name
>you've been living it for over a decade without language for it
>you get a job
>caretaker at Langlee Community Centre
>you stay there your whole working life
the turn:
>a family is referred to you
>their daughter has Tourette's
>she's struggling
>you start hosting workshops
>schools
>police stations
>you explain what it means to live in a body people don't understand
>unpaid
>for years
>because nobody did it for you
2019:
>Holyrood Palace
>the Queen is about to give you an MBE
>you shout "Fuck the Queen"
>directly at her
>she reacts with complete calm and kindness
>the kid the belt hit
>gets a medal
2025:
>a film about your life premieres at Toronto International Film Festival
>"I Swear"
>six BAFTA nominations
February 2026:
>you're in the auditorium
>watching a film about your life
>your Tourette's doesn't stop for the occasion
>it never has
>mid-ceremony your tics ring out across the room
>and on the live broadcast
>as Black actors take the stage
>you shout a racial slur
>involuntarily
>uncontrollably
>you leave early
>you know you're causing distress
>you've known that feeling your whole life
>Jamie Foxx goes on Instagram
>"Nah he meant that s**t"
>"Out of all the words you could've said Tourette's makes you say that"
>the internet piles on
>thousands outraged at a man who cannot control what comes out of his mouth
>the film that explains exactly this wins three BAFTAs that same night
>including Best Actor
>the room got it
>the internet did not
>because the internet didn't watch the film
see -- Every founder, artist, activist, author, coach or ANYONE who wants to change the world should take note:
Stop apologising for who you are.
Be the change you want to see.
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@CatLady6001 @DraperMP @Doctor_Az_ This unfortunately is no longer about his uncontrollable tics. This is about him as a man and an Activist. Does his condition prevent him from having any decency to acknowledge the people who were the subject of these humiliating outbursts, and direct them an apology.
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The hypocrisy of the film world. They celebrate a film portraying a man living with Tourette’s, but when his real life Tourette’s inconveniences their glitzy evening he’s made to feel so terrible that he feels like he has to leave early mol.im/a/15585839
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