Susan
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Susan
@snapperup
Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong. #Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax
Scotland, United Kingdom Katılım Ocak 2009
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@snapperup @AloneInBerlin11 I certainly need help with the collection I just bought, Will try again with gin
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@GlasgowAlbum @AloneInBerlin11 I like it very much. Think I'll need to re-read several times to unravel.
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@snapperup @AloneInBerlin11 I bought an Edmund Blunden limited edn (11 of 70) at Saleroom recently - Blunden is a favourite I love his war poems and Report on Experience but goodness am struggling with some of these
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@KeithMa95432918 It was like 'how could 15 year old me be wrong?' See also the Nicola Sturgeon creation story.
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@snapperup @mmgeissler Belief in "independence" (no one knows what it is but it certainly doesn't exist in the way described by nationalists) is arational , more like a faith.
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Most interesting question for me from @mmgeissler in election interview with John Swinney on Scotcast pod was how can he be so certain in his political beliefs, principally independence? I didn't hear a clear reply. He's fundamentally believed in it since age of 15. Oh well then.
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@AloneInBerlin11 @GlasgowAlbum Doesn't seem designed to instil an appreciation for or introductory understanding of English literature. Moaning about doing six poems? Yikes.
(I wonder why the preference for Duffy?)
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@snapperup @GlasgowAlbum But you only choose one of these. Certainly in Glasgow most people go for Duffy. When I retired from teaching 3 years ago people were already moaning hard about doing 6 poems and we were being told to decolonise the curriculum.. but retain the Scottish text(50%)
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@A_D_PHIL @hardlyperennial Yes. He should study a transcript from his recent one-day conference.
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@hardlyperennial John overlooks the racists and xenophobes within his own party.
People who live in glass houses………
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John Swinney is calling a significant proportion of the Scottish electorate racist.
Craig Meighan@craigymeighan
Some Reform UK voters are racist, John Swinney tells me at Scottish Parliament huddle.
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@GlasgowAlbum Yes, Keats paid for his admiration for Burns with his life, in a way. We were introduced to such a breadth of British literature at school, & some from America & elsewhere. Combination of Curriculum for Excellence & SNP hegemony has reduced that to shocking extent, seems to me.
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@snapperup Wordsworth hailed Burns for reinventing English Verse in Scots - Keats also paid tribute. This is all anathema to the SNP racists. Love of Burns is a British tradition.
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@ripx4nutmeg In the response to my complaint, the BBC conflates the experience of a man who only started cross dressing in his 50s with a woman and claims that they’re comparable.
Absolutely absurd
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@GlasgowAlbum Absolutely. The curriculum presently seems to focus massively on MacCaig, Duffy, Lochhead. All excellent, but where's the scope and depth? And what's wrong with poetry written by poets who happen not to be Scots.
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@snapperup I suspect Medieval Scots knew more Chaucer than us. Dunbar wrote the great poem on London,indeed Dunbar included English poets in Lament for the Makaris.
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@JohnMcS92873401 When has there ever been a discernible push to fix anything in that place?
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@snapperup Impartially of presiding officer and committees must be two priorities for Holyrood to fix. I am not optimistic.
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It is fairly nauseating to hear Sturgeon's pious parting words to the Holyrood chamber, received by an apparently emotional Presiding Officer, and think of the frankly disgusting way she habitually spoke to political opponents who were doing their job by questioning her.
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@BigTree66717133 I have first hand experience of how she treated people who went to her with very genuine concerns which affected constituents - her attitude towards those who were doing their job holding her govt to account was at times disgraceful
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Two men who tell us some men are women discuss the vast biological differences between women and men and how women suffer because of it. We'll that's a right old mind fuck right there.
Bold Politics@_BoldPolitics
Dr Amir Khan on Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 👇
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@ripx4nutmeg @JournalistJill Who was sharing their non-academic, but life-long, expertise?
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The BBC has rejected complaints that it was inappropriate, in a Woman's Hour discussion about misogyny, to have a cross-dressing man on to talk about his experiences of it, saying he is a "renowned sociologist" who "shared her academic expertise"
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@TomJohn1975 Absolutely. Hands Face Space ditched for effing (excuse me) FACTS absolutely says it all.
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@snapperup But we had to be different....jist cos!
Seperate App too - which I managed to live without.
Seperate "passports"......again, didn't bother and I survived.
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No-one could remember what FACTS stood for. The mantra 'Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives' discouraged too many from coming forward for non-covid medical help. Public communication in a crisis is damnably difficult to get right, & an under-discussed aspect of pandemic.
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