Assa Samaké-Roman @assasr.bsky.social

✨ The #nightofideas is coming! 💡 Join us for an inspiring evening starting with a lively round table exploring what it means to be an independent businesswoman in 2026, followed by a unique concert with Julia Pertuy and Dara Dubh 13 Feb at @ifecosse 🎟️ ifecosse.org.uk/festivals-and-…

Abolishing ILR is a revolting proposal - particularly the threat to do so retrospectively. A personal example: my wife, who has ILR & has studied, lived, worked here since 08 would be under threat of deportation. We have a son here. There are hundreds of thousands like us.

Depuis 2000, plus de ✨1,1 milliard d’enfants✨ ont été vaccinés — et nous redoublons d’efforts pour en protéger 500 millions de plus d’ici cinq ans. Le travail continue, mais avec un élan collectif, on peut y arriver. #ForOurFuture #VaccinesWork gavi.org/fr/investissez…

On #scotnight 🔷 @stvewan investigates a scandal-hit law firm which specialised in the mass-selling of so-called "family protection trusts" 🔷@Terfele & @CatrionaStewart look back at some of the big stories of the week 📺 8:30pm and on player.stv.tv

Macron’s gamble has failed—France can’t afford his denial any longer, writes @Terfele for LBC Views buff.ly/41ntheu

My book, ‘Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics (1914-2014)’ is just out as paperback with @EdinburghUP . £21 instead of the £80 hardback! From unionism to nationalism: the first study of Burns’s political afterlife in 20c Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Link below ⬇️

I've had the pleasure of working with @NEON_UK, this is an excellent opportunity for those driving progressive change in Scotland. If you want to amplify your impact through the media, don't miss out: x.com/NEON_UK/status…

Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock’s SNL bit when Donald Trump won in 2016 holds up still. I’m shocked this many people are shocked.

🗣️ 'More than ever, Europe must face the truth - these events are not anomalies' Assa Samake-Roman (@Terfele) writes that flooding in Spain is not surprising - but our inaction is thenational.scot/politics/24703…

BREAKING: Scottish comedian Janey Godley has died in hospital 'surrounded by her loved ones', her management has confirmed The comic and author had been receiving end of life care after being diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer

✍️ 'The latest episode of my ongoing bafflement with Britain revolves around the debate on who counts as a working person' Read the latest column from Assa Samake-Roman (@Terfele) in today's National thenational.scot/politics/24687…

Nobody likes council tax. We've been told time and time again that reform is coming, but we're still waiting ... So we're looking into council tax in depth for a new series next Monday-Friday. What's wrong with it, what could replace it and why do we still have it?

✍️ 'Belonging isn’t about why you apply for citizenship or whether your reasons are good enough - it’s about the life you build and the connections you make' Read the latest column from Assa Samake-Roman (@Terfele) in today's National thenational.scot/comment/246711…

Sometimes there's an answer on Only Connect that's worth an entire year's license fee

🏳️‍🌈✊ Il y a tout juste 25 ans, le 13 octobre 1999, vers 16h55 : avec le vote définitif du #Pacs, les #couples lesbiens et gays obtenaient droit de cité et le mariage cessait d’être l’unique moyen d’organiser la vie à deux. Un #progrès qui conclut 8 années de travail militant.

Yeah, that's really weird! Don't know why anyone would be reluctant to have kids in this country 🙄 thenational.scot/news/24623333.…

Alex Salmond, ancien premier ministre écossais et défenseur de l’indépendance, est mort lemonde.fr/disparitions/a…

Former First Minister and Alba leader Alex Salmond has died. He was giving a speech in North Macedonia this morning.

Tomorrow's front page of @ScotNational. We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.

Gonna tell my kids this was Ursula von der Leyen! 🎂