The Mess We're In The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either.

The Mess We're In : The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either.
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It hasn’t rained for a month. Which means it is time, once again, for ‘Scotland’, by Alastair Reid.

S.T.R.A.M.A.S.H

At least you have a train! Two in fact. My Waverley line train just didn’t appear.

The ruling determines what the law IS and, indeed, what it has always BEEN.

Though, yes, getting out the way he did allows for a small uptick in legacy considerations etc.

Sure, but hard to look back on his time in office as a success?

Possibly! Then again, I think it's also fair to say that in every single other scenario that is even vaguely possible, the liberals would have merited a thorough defenestration...

This "people will kill themselves" blackmail is increasingly popular (now seen in multiple policy areas) and utterly disgraceful.

Pretty sure Edinburgh has above average productivity too.

Not at all. And if it is an extreme example it is nevertheless one I encountered on the Glasgow-Edinburgh train a few weeks ago.

This is madness. No way we can trust Ohio State with nuclear weapons.

Complacent and cowardly ministers are still failing Scotland’s women The Scottish government continues to shirk responsibility for its past mistakes with no apology

When ‘Sorry’ is the impossible word.
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Well, yes, and there are plenty of others who might do well to do likewise. I mean, John Swinney was saying that of course men can't get pregnant in the same week his government was arguing in court they can and do.

The Vindication of Women The mills of truth grind very slowly but they do grind exceedingly well

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The Vindication of Women The mills of truth grind very slowly but they do grind exceedingly well

The Vindication of Women. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

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Good lord, hasn’t even California suffered enough?

This is extraordinary given the ideological diversity of the participants.

A respectable sweet spot.

Some, but there are lots who only mouth the words. If you force them to declare whether a TW is just the same as their mother/wife/sister etc then they go rather quiet. Deep down they don’t actually believe it.

Five days after FWS vs Scottish ministers & far too many people still need to be reminded that the govt position was that quotas for women could be filled by men. How can that be anything other than marginalising, downgrading, even erasing, women?

as soon as someone attributes an opinion/ attitude to an entire jurisdiction (the people of this town “cherish their way of life”) you can stop reading

Classic Guardian correction

Longstanding peeve: I do wish people citing Teddy Roosevelt like this understood that “bully” in “bully pulpit” means “very good”.

Interesting, perhaps, but of zero legal or statutory relevance. However expert, the views of a policy official about what a law is ‘intended’ to be are as nothing when set beside the ruling of judges who determine what it actually *is*.

I for one am glad that attacking court judgments seems to be socially acceptable again among people who used to give very tedious lectures on the subject.

To some degree, yes. The national question is quiet, Swinney & Sarwar ware each decent people. The govt is trying to avoid starting fires. Dullness is considered a virtue. Bad for newspaper columnists; better for the country.

Straight Outta the Cevennes.

Every time I’m in Paris I have to bring back a couple of cartons of Gitanes (sans filtre, of course) for the old man as they are NO LONGER SOLD in the UK. He’s 86 and takes the view toasted tobacco is significantly less carcinogenic. And even it it ain’t, so what?