#Scotland

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Summer 1970: a rare form of typhoid is infecting people in Edinburgh. Dr Nancy Conn, a bacteriologist at Western General, finds the source and prevents a major outbreak with detective

Rattlecans

rattlecans

So that picture of the wumin living in a slum, in 1910 is flying abootThe are so many photos in the Mitchell collection of the awful poverty oor grannies were

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

threadNOT FISH AGAIN1. The Government has to deliver on fisheries - it's the strongest weapon to hold the United Kingdom together. The popularity of oily fish such as mackerel has

Frankie

belgy67

Scotland has a form of proportional representation called The Additional Member System or D'hont system.The aims are to make the results of an election reflect more closely the amount of

Ailig Ó Maolchalann / Alex Mulholland

molach95

A quote from Steven J. Reid in the new book "Corona Borealis""Early modern Scots understood Classical culture and history with a depth and completeness that modern scholars can admire but

Simon Cosgrove 🇪🇺#FBPE #Rejoin

simoncosgrove

What does it mean to you to be British today? I find it hard to answer this question. A necessary legal technicality? One step up from statelessness? Resentment? Anger? Shame?

Matt Nelson

Mattyfatpants

Many years ago I was getting divorced and felt sad and hopeless. So I went to see a doctor. This was in the north Scotland and this guy was a

Basic Income Network Scotland

cbinscot

[THREAD] Poor response from @RishiSunak on the @GlasgowCC motion on Basic Income by @Bell45"there are problems with the realities of a UBI" - the primary one being the UK government's

brian life of !!! a fishing man 👨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

briansm20193481

Fishing quotas are allocated every year sometimes every 2 years. The reason for this is because each year the amount of fishing licences change based on your countries share judged

Marco Biagi

MarcoGBiagi

Scottish Labour are stuck. They are a centre-left party that opposes independence. In Scotland most centre-left voters however back independence and consequently vote for the centre-left party that is in

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: good news / bad news / good new on covid with data up to 5/6th Jan by date of test. Thanks to Bob Hawkins who did the charts for

Gurinder Singh

Gurinder_Singh1

couple weeks back as part of my BAME risk assessment it was identified I didn’t have the correct PPE available. Was it my fault that I wouldn’t wear a mask

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

If COVID-19 numbers can be brought low enough in Scotland by 11 August (under 20 confirmed cases) & with appropriate 'test and protect' policies, my personal view is that schools

Glasgow Women's Aid

GWA1973

We MUST keep talking about 'No Recourse to Public Funds'. Here's why:- Migrant women affected by NRPF will find it more difficult to find housing, financial aid or healthcare- In

Maya Forstater

MForstater

Friday feeling:@mbmpolicy have just got over half their initial target for funding their work https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/womens-rights-in-policy-and-lawThese three women are worth every pennyKeep it going! They are getting analysis into

James Smith 💙

jimbobity

This picture appeared on social media yesterday. It doesn't really surprise me but it's still very depressing to see. So - bit of a rant coming up.I'm sure lots of

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