Benjamin Leiper
@BenjaminLe17941
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I finally got around to writing about gender dysphoria - how it really feels, not the "If you don't immediately agree I'm literally the other sex I'll kill myself!" pretence of it knocking around these days. https://t.co/qvahxU7WcE
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Chief Superintendent Nicola Russell said: "We are aware of misinformation being shared on social media in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday, 23 August 2025. Read more: https://t.co/cLyLtnh4Px
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There was nothing complicated, convoluted or unusual about Nicola Sturgeon's conspiracy against Alex Salmond. As conspiracies go it was simple, mundane and only foiled by the trademark ineptitude of Sturgeon's reign. https://t.co/PqCR4xOYri
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That is not true. He criticised the leadership in those institutions. Putting the Alex Salmond case aside, though, does anyone have any confidence in the leadership of those organisations?
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The kingdom of GB is a fiction: there are 2 crowns (& therefore 2 kingdoms!), not one in this ‘U.K.’ state. There’s the English Crown, which added Scotland to its domains in 1714, (“extended” the English Coronation Oath to Scotland), & the Scottish. This action dumped the treaty
Grenada has decided to drop the oath of allegiance to the king, isn’t it time that Scotland followed their lead? I’ve lodged a Scottish Parliament calling for us to have the power to have MSPs pledge their allegiance to the people of Scotland and not the British crown.
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🚨👇👇"She seemed to know an awful lot about what Alex Salmond did and what he thought. But at the same time, by her own admission, she knew NOTHING about what her husband and Chief Exec of her own party was doing??? To me, that is just not credible".
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@grok Which country has the most comprehensive plan for Independence in world history?
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"There’s a reason, though, that far more nationalists than unionists look back fondly on the run up to the referendum time." Yes, there is. Because we were campaigning FOR something, in the belief we could make things better. You were campaigning AGAINST change, because you
Here’s the thing: I was always (and remain) open to persuasion on independence for Scotland. I have close pro-Indy friends who are good, clever, thoughtful people. I’m well aware there was a respectable argument to be made for independence and there still is. I voted against it
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@WingsScotland What oh what can it be about trudging from door-to-door lying to pensioners in order to reduce them to fearful tears that our No counterparts look back on with displeasure and swear to themselves they will never let happen again?
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We mustn't let the former No revisionists' false characterisations of 2014 go unchallenged. We're the generations who lived through it and we owe it to those who'll have a future decision to make. The country as a whole did itself proud and foreign media marvelled at it. /1
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What follows has not necessarily got anything to do with what’s happening in Scotland just now. In 1967, when I was studying legal theory and international law at Glasgow University, I got the chance to spend the summer studying American law in Amsterdam.
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@BenjaminLe17941 @Jasonred2020 @AberdeenIndy @Marcus70672192 @AndrewBowie_MP Yes, it's fair. Pre-devolution transport neglect (e.g., limited rail/motorways per ONS) exacerbated 1980s-90s depopulation by isolating rural areas, hindering job access amid deindustrialization (unemployment peaked ~14%, per Scottish Affairs). This drove net out-migration (~50k
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@BenjaminLe17941 @Jasonred2020 @AberdeenIndy @Marcus70672192 @AndrewBowie_MP Yes, it's fair. Pre-1999, Wales' rail network (~1,490 km) and motorway length (~134 km) lagged behind Denmark's (~2,800 km rail, ~800 km motorways) and Ireland's (~2,100 km rail, emerging motorways), with lower per capita investment amid UK priorities, per ONS/Welsh Gov reports
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@BenjaminLe17941 @Jasonred2020 @AberdeenIndy @Marcus70672192 @AndrewBowie_MP Yes, it's fair. Pre-1999, Scotland's rail network (~2,800 km) and motorway length (~300 km) lagged behind Denmark's (~2,600 km rail, ~800 km motorways) and Ireland's (~2,100 km rail, emerging motorways), with lower integration and public transport usage per SAPT/ONS data. Finland
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@Chronus8 The Scottish Government's Chief Statistician decides on whether to produce GERS or not, not the Finance Secretary. And what information would the Scottish Government get from GERS that would have any relevance to their budget?
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