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🗒️ Public affairs and comms in mental health 👍 Keen on sport, rights, and DIY punk rock ⬅️ Previously EHRC, Open University, Glasgow 2014 and more 🐶 Mostly pictures of my dog 🚹 He/him 📍 Glasgow, Scotland 📑 Ts and Cs apply.
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🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

submitted 2 hours ago • 39 comments

Would that Brenda Hale was still president of the UKSC.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Well, now. This will cut no ice with Commissioners, but hopefully it might be of concern to others, including the UK Government.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Next month Edinburgh’s Integrated Joint Board - the body that makes its health and social care decisions - will vote on proposals to effectively end all community mental health support in the city. If this seems problematic to you, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-menta...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Well, now. This will cut no ice with Commissioners, but hopefully it might be of concern to others, including the UK Government.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Next month Edinburgh’s Integrated Joint Board - the body that makes its health and social care decisions - will vote on proposals to effectively end all community mental health support in the city. If this seems problematic to you, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-menta...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Apart from anything else, the suspect is from Chicago.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Interesting: What impact has the European Convention on #HumanRights had on national security in the UK? 🔗 brill.com/view/journal... by @bricksilk.bsky.social #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Everyone who objected to the courts’ intervention re Rwanda will be along to complain about this outrageous abuse of parliamentary sovereignty in just a minute.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Believe it or not today is the first anniversary of Rishi in the rain.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

A thing I’ve never understood is why when goalies go up teams leave an actual player on the halfway line. Why not push the actual player up and put the goalie on halfway?

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Shocking footage from our news wires from Jenin, West Bank, where the IDF fired “warning shots” at a group of diplomats and officials that included two from the Irish Embassy in Ramallah.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

If Man Utd somehow score an equaliser here I say we all agree that we don’t do extra time, instead no one wins and we all go home.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

I cannot believe this team decided they don’t need Scott McTominay.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Ally come on don’t take that clearance, the one good thing to happen in this game, away from us

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t really watch any English football these days, is it always this bad?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

The ICE detention center trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were officially dropped this afternoon during a hearing in which a federal judge scolded prosecutors for nearly 10 minutes. Story: newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ju...

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Here is a random thought: the @scotlawcom.bsky.social ran a consultation on the reform of homicide law which closed in October 2021. More than three and a half years later there is still no sign of a report or proposals for reform of any sort. That seems… inefficient.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Had the windows open continuously for the last three weeks or so and it’s been absolutely grand but for some reason in the last couple of days flying beasties have decided to visit en masse. Is there some sort of beastie rising ongoing?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

i mean we all *knew* the death of culture would be a bit silly but "the most soulless rich people of all time decide autocomplete is going to be our new god" is a bit beyond the pale even for this timeline

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Stunned to find that I have successfully verified on this ridiculous platform.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments