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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Mess We're In : The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either.
open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

The Mess We're In

The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · May 13

It hasn’t rained for a month. Which means it is time, once again, for ‘Scotland’, by Alastair Reid.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · May 5

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

Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · May 5

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie

The Seventy Eight Steps

Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · May 5

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie

Nineteen Weeks

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · May 4

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

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 29

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

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 29

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

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social · Apr 28

A further blow to Ofsted’s school card plans this morning:

Education leaders, teachers, former HMI & Professor Julia Waters, sister of headteacher Ruth Perry, have written to the SoS to urge her to delay the proposals, or risk “further, preventable deaths”.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Delay new Ofsted inspections or risk further deaths, Phillipson told

Coalition of education unions, headteachers and former senior inspectors warns the education secretary about the watchdog’s school report card proposals

www.tes.com

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 27

Pretty sure Edinburgh has above average productivity too.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Apr 24

where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.
Today at 7:00 a.m. ET

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 24

When ‘Sorry’ is the impossible word.
www.thetimes.com/article/6b46...

Complacent and cowardly ministers are still failing Scotland’s women

The Scottish government continues to shirk responsibility for its past mistakes with no apology

www.thetimes.com

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

The Vindication of Women

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

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

The Vindication of Women

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

open.substack.com

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 22

Please purchase and report back.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 21

Good lord, hasn’t even California suffered enough?

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Apr 21

This is extraordinary given the ideological diversity of the participants.

Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · Apr 21

Check out Free Press symposium on "Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law?" Participants are: @lessig.bsky.social, Ed Whelan, Andrew McCarthy, @jadler1969.bsky.social,
Aziz Huq, Michael McConnell & me. Note very high degree of agreement, despite huge ideological differences. www.thefp.com/p/is-donald-...

Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law? Seven Experts Weigh In.

Trump critics say we are in a constitutional crisis. The White House says that’s hysterical. What do our top legal minds say?

www.thefp.com

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 21

A respectable sweet spot.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 21

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?

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · Apr 19

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

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 19

This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · Apr 19

Classic Guardian correction

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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · Apr 18

Your opinion is of supreme irrelevance. Don’t let your bully pulpit kid you into imagining that you matter.*

*if you think that’s rude or harsh, try being trans for a day, then reflect back on your own smug dismissal of other people’s lives.

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