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prof, pro vp, U. Glasgow. @RoyalSocEd @acad_euro. Personal views only. co-Chair @SAHA_voice; Trustee @N_T_S; board https://t.co/f9DRrZwPso; board https://t.co/tkcFHj8tXw
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Remembering great times with Melvyn on a range from Burns to Empiricism (the latter now part of a BBC Audiobook in Philosophy),Enclosures to Glencoe, Jacobitism to the Clearances.A great survivor with a big audience,championing informed debate & fond of his reception @UofGlasgow.
Having presented well over 1,000 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg has made the decision to step down from In Our Time following the series which aired earlier this year. Read more ➡️
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RT @s8mb: The guy who filmed the girl with an axe and kitchen knife is a married Bulgarian Christian who came here legally and was going to….
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The ugly video clip from a Dundee housing estate in which a schoolgirl brandished a knife and an axe soon went viral.
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Someone may correct me, but I understand that @bbcquestiontime appearances stand at Farage 38, Corbyn 3. I don’t have much in common with either politically, but this demonstrates how ‘good copy’ & ‘controversy’ & ‘balance’ are the enemies of scrutiny & informed democracy.
Spot on this — utterly absurd that Labour, Tories and the media dance to Farage tune when his single achievement so far has been to win the battle for something which has taken 5pc out of our economy and ramped up immigration. #FightNotFlightFFS
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The French rate- a state with significantly better public services & infrastructure- cuts in at £155k equivalent, the German at £245k or so, Austria at €1M & the country has no inheritance tax, Scotland the rate is 50% including NI- a pile of misrepresentation here.
Almost all countries in Western Europe have higher rates of top ban income tax than Britain:
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Tribal irresponsibility. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty is the ground base of free speech theory & Mill makes it very clear that incitement to violence against third parties is not free speech.
Tomorrow's front page: 'I was PM's political prisoner for a year'. Read more:
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I would rather suggest it is 1) the last time the UK was globally significant & 2) the Battle of Britain/Blitz story is the new British story- ourselves alone, not international Britishness. Compare the 38 Empire Exhibition & Fest of Britain 1951- theme song ‘Jerusalem’.
'World War Two’s true virtue, its moving defence of liberty at almost any cost, is apparently not the thing that has made it the British national religion. The element most people like is the collective effort, the conformist humour, the comfort of shared peril leading to a warm.
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Here at Traquair getting ready to speak on Scottish Buchan, Imperial Buchan, Internationalist Buchan, Zionist Buchan & existential Buchan. Happy 150th JB!
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It certainly helps if you want to be unobtainable to clients or customers by phone. Some flexibility is good but the U.K. has been much slower to emerge from pandemic practice than elsewhere in Europe: hard to argue that’s an economic benefit.
The normalisation of working from home (and not only on Fridays) is the only good thing to have happened in the last 5 years. So much better for families, for mental and physical health, for local communities, for the environment. There should never be a 'return to the office'.
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Read John Kay, The Corporation in the 21st century to see how widely wealth is spread compared with a century ago. That doesn’t mean it’s universal, but he demonstrates how out of data a C19 model of ‘capitalism’ is.
Globally, we're moving back towards an aristocracy of wealth, more akin to the 19th century than the 20th. Anyone who cares about social justice, about moving away from higher and higher levels of taxation on work, should be very concerned. Time to do something about it.
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Slovakia seems to have done.
On this day in 1968, Moscow ordered the invasion of Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring and ending hopes for liberal reforms within the Eastern Bloc. Never forget.
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Almost 19000 in Glasgow with Gaelic at some level; a city formed in part by Gaelic speaking population movement from. Scotland & NW Ireland- the idea that Gaelic is ‘elitist’ is preposterous. Linguistic expertise is a good thing for learners.
Pretty much the full racist anti-Gaelic bingo card for Labour candidate Vonnie Sandlan. 1. Too much money is spent on Gaelic.2. "It was never spoken here".3. It's not a Scottish language, it's just regional.4. Getting educated in an indigenous language is elitist.
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Delighted to be able to continue these discussions with @SAHA_voice & @IrishHumanities at the Royal Academy of Ireland on 26 September @culturescotgov @scotgovireland :.
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Culture is a crucial cornerstone in the Ireland-Scotland bilateral relationship. Culture Secretary @AngusRobertson met Irish Culture Minister @podonovan to understand how the two nations can work together to support and grow the sectors in Ireland and Scotland.
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On Saturday I will be opening the formal side of the magnificent Beyond Borders Festival @traquairhouse in conversation with Geoffrey Baskerville on John Buchan at 150, focusing on Buchan's fiction & political writings about empire, Scotland & fascism.
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Excellent new development in Irish-Scottish relations. Looking forward to this and to SAHA's joint event with @IrishHumanities in the Royal Iriah Academy with @scotgovireland and representatives of the Irish government and diplomatic corps on 26 September.
📣 We're launching our Scottish Chapter!. On 4 Sept, the Chamber will host its Edinburgh Council Dinner at Edinburgh City Chambers. ✨ Sponsored by ESB.🎤 Speakers: Ivan McKee MSP & Jerry O’Donovan.📩 Info: events@britishirishchamber.com
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The annual GERS festival is in full swing. Just how poor are we ? And whose fault is it ? The Goschen formula of 1888 established differential national funding, revised by Barnett 90 years later. But there is no full ‘Scottish economy’ dataset-GERS deserves better than tribalism.
Somebody's loading Scotland up with debt and it isn't the Scottish government.
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I have had the pleasure of speaking to informed & highly educated MAGA supporters, but none of them live in this world of facts and agency. Try being a refugee from Finnish Karelia in 1940 or a massacred Pole.
. As Trump is prepping to host Putin on U.S. soil for a “listening exercise” where he will “see what Putin has in mind" here's a gentle reminder 👇
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Sorry to hear of the death of Sir George Reid FRSE, one of Scotland’s great Europeans & internationalists & former presiding officer of @ScotParl , Director of Public Affairs for International Red Cross & Crescent- I last saw him at a Crieff Hydro ceilidh- at home in any company.
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Superb concert this afternoon, hearing the Burns family flute after more than a century, playing for the first time from the @Burns_Ellisland songbook @GlasgowBurns @IASSL_ScotLit @MackayPAG @GerardCarruthe2 @JoanMcAlpine
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De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
NEW: Alex Salmond did not read the SNP Government’s 2014 paper on Scottish independence, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed
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