Ian Smart
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Lefty lawyer; Scottish Labour Party hack; St Mirren till I die
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Joined September 2009
On Wednesday, 8th April, my wife of thirty two years, Maureen O’Donovan, passed away. I’ve written about it here. Sorry it’s very long but it was a very long marriage. https://t.co/yQA4W82WvP
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Absolutely. Hopefully Susan’s lawyer will start by insisting on the names of everybody in the chain of command involved in this bizarre decision. So that they can be fired next May.
This is an utter disgrace. @PoliceScotland have now lost all credibility. It’s time for a clear out of failed leadership and a fresh start.
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Only 15 days ago, to cheers, Swinney told the SNP Conference that refugees are welcome in Scotland. Presumably he’ll now condemn those suggesting otherwise.
Concerns over community 'cohesion' have been raised as the UK Government announced hundreds of asylum seekers will be moved to military barracks in Inverness. https://t.co/cVKsqaLyYH
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This sentiment seems to have lasted 15 days.
Refugees are welcome here, says Swinney. Painting himself as the anti-Farage
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A Just Stop Oil supporter accused of damaging Stonehenge told a jury he borrowed his grandmother's petrol car to drive to the monument. 🚘🛢️😳
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Reading between the lines, I think there's been a falling out here.
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Statement from Dermot Desmond to Celtic supporters
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Jings.
Brendan Rodgers has resigned as Celtic manager, the club have announced. https://t.co/38keUj3526
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Be interesting to see what price Ireland pays in the wider world for electing this character. Hopefully not too high a one. Sometimes people need to be excused their own idiocy.
🇮🇪 'Not since the 2011 general election has the Irish electorate been so bloody-minded towards its main political parties' | Writes Barry O'Halloran https://t.co/TvS0VetQxo
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Founded by the man behind Kellogg’s cereals, the Kellogg Foundation now pours billions into activism—not nutrition.
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The truth is that you are more likely to find traditional Scottish values such as social justice, compassion, charity and community spirit in most Scots who worship at this mosque than the type who graffiti “Scots First” outside it. 1/2
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I am watching Antiques Roadshow for the first time in ages and am drawn back immediately to the night we all watched it while trying to guess which member of the on screen audience was @HelenMilburn
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I can genuinely say I have never even thought about, never mind been bothered about, the colour of actors appearing in adverts.
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Living with blindness or vision loss shouldn’t limit mobility. These riders say Waymo can help improve their independence.
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The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be
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SNP MSPs clapped themselves in 2022 as they passed their "groundbreaking" fireworks law. Scot Gov's headline measure was permits for buying fireworks. That's now axed, as are limits on days-of-sale. Main thing left is control zones, but police say they'll struggle to enforce them
EXCL: Headline measures of SNP's "historic" and "groundbreaking" fireworks law from 2022 are quietly ditched without ever coming into force https://t.co/YerPcFAMmO
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Anti-Semitic candidate wins Irish election. Plus ca change.
Irish presidential election results: Catherine Connolly wins https://t.co/fIvX86OBGZ
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The new Goku is here and great! Better articulations enable more effective posing than ever! The paintbrush job is on point, too! A must have! For your next S.H.Figuarts, HOBBY GENKI!
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We are in Costco where Andi is looking at Christmas confectionery. It is 25th October.
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I voted for Bridget Phillipson but I’m quite content with the result. Suspect that’s a widely shared view in the Party. Two excellent candidates. Only one could win.
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Wes Streeting has already made it clear he’s with the nurses. He should long since have made it clear to the management of the Health Board that, if they choose to await the inevitable decision then, once it is decided against them, they will all be summarily dismissed.
📽👉WATCH: Day 2 of Darlington Nurses makes BBC Look North - including spelling out evidence onscreen given by nurse Bethany Hutchison about the man in question 'Rose' Henderson: "He is intimidating us. He is not the victim here... He is a man pretending to be a woman." 🔥
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Macron has obviously decided to dress more French. Next he’ll be wearing a beret and in the new year a blue hooped top with a string of onions around his neck.
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I think he’ll turn out to be the real thief, returning ostentatiously to the scene of the crime, taunting his pursuers for not spotting him in plain sight.
Turns out the viral Louvre "detective" was just a rando walking around
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