George Fergusson
@GDRFergusson
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Recovering former civil servant and diplomat. Born Scotland, much of working life involved with N Ireland, now live in England - and feel as much at home in NZ
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A land swap idea as an underpinning for peace in Ukraine sounds great - for the nanosecond before you realise that there is no Russian land that Ukraine wants or is likely to be offered. If the deal is swapping Ukrainian land for Ukrainian land, the suggestion looks emptier.
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As a former student newspaper editor,I agree with most of this article (& welcome its distinction between suffragettes,who called themselves terrorists,& suffragists).But disagree that proscription rather than prosecution is the answer. https://t.co/JLoOEEK2ue
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Labelling organisations as terrorist which take direct action but don’t deliberately seek to kill people looks like using the law to make a…
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Don’t proscribe organisations: prosecute criminal actions. Why proscribing is often an unnecessary mistake. Article in @HeraldScotland.
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Labelling organisations as terrorist which take direct action but don’t deliberately seek to kill people looks like using the law to make a…
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Save us from lottery elections: we must change the system
heraldscotland.com
The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse bye-election provided lots to talk about. An alarming, and overlooked, implication is for our voting system.
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'His way ahead looks hazardous' George Fergusson: Keir Starmer has some difficult choices ahead https://t.co/Cbzt0ctyv0
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200 years ago this month @JamesBraidwood started the world's 1st municipal fire service, in Edinburgh. He then founded London's fire brigade, & died in the @LondonFire in Tooley St in 1861. An elder of @CrownCourtChurch in Covent Garden,a plaque there commemorates him. @Scot_fire
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With Pat Lorimer on Tiree, 80 years to the day after his father John's midget sub mission against the Tirpitz, Op Source: 2 VCs,3 DSOs @AlastairBruce_ #WW2
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Interesting review of the Northern Ireland Executive's work since it resumed business earlier this year: much more to be done.
🚨 New Pivotal report published this morning The report looks back at the first seven months of the restored Northern Ireland Executive and suggests priorities ahead Read it here https://t.co/caARc4PG8p
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For once I hope a politician - Tom Tugendhat - doesn't mean what he says. Getting rid of ECHR needs thought on how to replace it. This article suggests much more thought needed. @ProfTimBale @conorgearty @constit
George Fergusson: There's danger behind these Tory bids to dump European Court of Human Rights https://t.co/JMX41siLDM
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George Fergusson: A cost-free option to make things better https://t.co/rNJ4IpMYSP
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The new Government has made its priority economic growth. It wants to open up opportunities for young people, for the development of technology and…
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I hope this is a temporary blip.But it's hard to see why the Gov't seems to be rejecting the benefits of an EU youth travel scheme. It's nothing to do with the single market - and even if it was,B Johnson campaigned for Brexit on the basis of keeping that
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The new Government has made its priority economic growth. It wants to open up opportunities for young people, for the development of technology and…
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Pres. Putin was invited to the D-Day commemorations in 2004 & 2014, representing the extraordinary Soviet sacrifices in WW2. Sad that he has made himself unsuitable for today's events but good that Pres. Zelensky can much more appropriately represent the former Soviet Union
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I was involved in the margins of Whitehall planning for the D-Day 50th anniversary, with discussion of which heads of state to invite. 2 were obligatory: Grand Duke of Luxembourg & President of Israel had both taken part in the landings, both in Irish Regts of the British Army
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The civil service groupthink underlying some of the damning recent Inquiries should have lessened with greater recent diversity. But there are risks of losing public service ethos if too much of the civil service's identity is lost. #Instituteforgov
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Civil servants and damning enquiries. An uncle, working in the 1930s for the publishers Blackwoods, told them that if they published a book as…
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Musing on seeing 10,000+ up early today to hear May morning choral singing from @magdalenoxford Tower, alongside news of the action at Columbia Univ. I hope student - & other- life can continue to embrace beauty & good tradition,at the same time as activism & idealism.
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The US/UK bombing of Houthi sites: even if effective (doubtful), we are the wrong people to do it.
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There is a clear legal and moral case for destroying the Houthi missile and drone bases which are disrupting international shipping in the Red Sea…
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Thanks also to The Wood Foundation @TWF_Scotland, past Otaki Scholars from @robertgordons, Chris Parkin, @Babcockplc and Sander Ties for making this moving commemoration & new NZ Scotland link a reality.
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Great to see @stmargpri & @cowieps pupils & heads & many others at Monday's 2nd memorial event for Everiss Scholars]from @otaki_college in NZ. Warmer than last year! Moving occasion & reat welcome from #CowieBowling Club. @robertgordons @NZUKLink @NZAirForce
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