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Co-director @FutureEconScot | Board @GNDRising | Advisory panel @Cmmonwealth | Research fellow @WEAll_Alliance and @DemocracyCollab | My own views | she/her

Shetlander in Glasgow

Joined December 2011

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@MiriamBrett

Miriam Brett

1 year

Some ~ professional news ~ Last year, me and @L__Macfarlane took a leap in the dark and left our jobs with a vision of starting a new Scottish think tank. Today, that vision comes to life.

@FutureEconScot

Future Economy Scotland

@FutureEconScot

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Today we are proud to launch Future Economy Scotland 🚀 We are a non-partisan think tank that aims to create a new economy that is democratic, sustainable and just. Watch our video to find our more about our vision and mission:

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3 years

They messed with the wrong city.

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Lakhvir Singh: “I’m so happy that my fate brought me to Glasgow where they’ll come out on to the streets to help one of their own.”

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“Text me when you get home safe” is something I say to women I know before we part ways, and I’ve never thought about it. When I’m actually saying is that I worry something awful might happen to them and I won’t stop worrying until I know they’re safe. It shouldn’t be this way.

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His net worth is $193 billion, he paid no federal income tax between 2007 and 2011, and his workers were forced to sleep in tents near the Amazon warehouse less than an hour’s drive from where he made this speech.

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Sky News

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'We must conserve what we still have and restore what we've lost.' Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces a $2 billion pledge allocated directly to restoring nature, as part of a $10 billion commitment to tackle climate change. #COP26

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Your regular reminder that women are not responsible for the behaviour of men.

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South Africa was one of the many countries calling for vaccine patent waivers, but states like the U.K. blocked it, leaving poorer countries locked out of obtaining adequate supplies of vaccines, hampering the global rollout, and heightening the chances of new variants.

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The Home Office is rotten to its core. Glasgow showed them the door today, but they’ll double down now because they’ve been humiliated and defeated by community power. We all need to find the strength, power and solidarity we saw today. Glasgow showed us how it’s done.

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Just some of the measures that should be taken now: - Freeze rent - Ban evictions - Increase sick pay - Support for carers - Scrap the two child cap - Support for single parents - Provide internet connection for all

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You may have heard of Up Helly Aa, Shetland’s viking fire festival. What you might not know is that for decades, people have campaigned to allow women and girls to be participate in the main festival. This year, for the first time, women and girls participated. Just wonderful.

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Why nationalise railways when you could simply pay for profit firms to deliver dismal services yet still get bailed out by the taxpayer, while enriching their shareholders and overseeing real term pay cuts for staff? 🙃

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Well that’s me in tears. More amazing women making history. Congratulations, @GlasgowPam !

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It’s December, which means it’s time to say Merry Christmas to this wee guy and this wee guy only.

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A one way ticket on the London-Glasgow sleeper train is £210. Aside from businesses with a lot of money and people on very high incomes, who can afford this? So many are essentially denied access to an enjoyable and sustainable way to travel.

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How could you look at a cop being charged with murdering a woman, police being investigated for failing to investigate him properly, an officer joking about her murder, and police violence against mourning women, and conclude that undercover police in nightclubs is the answer?

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You know what icing on the cake would look like in Scotland after Trump’s loss? An Unexplained Wealth Order for his Turnberry purchase, compelling him to reveal sources of unexplained wealth after a US inquiry alleged it may have involved money laundering.

Trump wealth order probe urged over Scottish golf resorts

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie claims there are "big questions" about how the US President paid for them.

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A timely reminder that the lifetime cost of replacing the nuclear weapons system is £200 billion and we paid £137 billion to bail out the banks in the last financial crisis and yet we seemingly can’t possibly secure incomes for people during a deadly pandemic.

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@YesWithDex Is it hypothetically you initiating a massive peaceful protest rooted in community power and solidarity, which saw people come together to free two people locked in an immigration enforcement van, and all you legends beating the home office?!

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There’s a lot to be said on the food parcels but I keep thinking about the fact that they chopped up half a pepper and put measly amounts of pasta in a little bag. It shows that firms went out of their way to provide as little as possible for hungry children. How dehumanising.

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Fuel poverty is children going to bed and waking up cold, vulnerable elderly people getting very ill, homes being bitterly cold and damp, devastating respiratory and heart conditions, and more winter deaths. Knowingly plunging people into fuel poverty is callous and inhumane.

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3 years

Maximum respect to the very merry man walking along our east London street in the pouring rain shouting “Scotland Scotland Scotland!”

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Miriam Brett

2 years

Regardless of where people stand, we can all unite around the fact that Irn Bru is not controversial.

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The Hill

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives thumbs up on controversial orange fizzy drink at Cop26

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Is the Met investigating these parties or is there an exemption for wine and cheese elite gatherings, unlike, say, a vigil held for a woman kidnapped, raped and murdered by one of their own?

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Miriam Brett

3 years

Freeze your bread and don’t rinse your dishes, while we deliberate giving a license for an 800 million barrel oil field.

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Miriam Brett

4 years

If feeding children is seen as bad for the economy, that tells us everything we need to know about how our economy is run.

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Miriam Brett

4 years

Rather than blaming parents, it might be a good idea to start by asking why children are hungry in the first place. The three primary reasons for foodbank use are low income, benefit delays and benefit changes - all areas that you as a government have the power to address.

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Cllr Ben Bradley MP

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Gov has lots of responsibilities: supporting the vulnerable, helping people to help themselves, balancing the books. Not as simple as you to make out Marcus. Extending FSM to sch hols passes responsibility for feeding kids away from parents, to the State. It increases dependency.

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Miriam Brett

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Would that be the ‘personal agenda’ of *checks notes* investigating possible financial criminality by any chance?

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Miriam Brett

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Because Thatcherism, famously, worked so well for the north.

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The Independent

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Right-wing think tank calls for Thatcherite policy in north of England

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Miriam Brett

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The economy is not like a household budget.

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Miriam Brett

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A very nice and sincere man in Brighton just told me my English is “very good”

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Miriam Brett

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Trump already said states must pay more for drugs made by US firms as a pre-condition to a trade deal. I asked Douglas Ross if he voted for a Trade Bill amendment to protect public healthcare, but I didn’t get an answer. It turns out he voted against it.

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Love to hear from my fans 😘

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Miriam Brett

3 years

Imagine calling the police over a sarcastic Eurovision tweet. How many of those manufacturing disproportionate outrage contribute to or ignore genuine hate elsewhere? How many abused and intimidated this woman online over the years? Double standards doesn’t begin to describe it.

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Miriam Brett

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When this is all over, we need to throw the biggest ceilidh and we’ll all dance until our feet are sore, and it’ll be brilliant.

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The incredible @BellaSankey , putting the record straight on the rights of asylum seekers 🔥

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Miriam Brett

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I’m saw this photo being shared by a few folk without photo credits and thought it was too powerful not to share, but if anyone knows who took it and they want me to credit them, let me know and I’ll do so. :)

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I haven’t seen my family for months. I’ve missed birthdays and the funeral of a loved one, and haven’t yet met my new nephew. I would love to see my family at Christmas, but if lifting lockdown results in more people dying and another elongated lockdown, we shouldn’t do it.

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Another conversation has emerged about rural Scotland being posh so here’s your regular reminder that rural Scotland is steeped in working class struggles and overlooking this obscures the varied experiences of what it means to be working class in Scotland.

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‘Look I didn’t want to be violent but your behaviour made me do it. I’m just trying to protect you.’

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#UPDATE | Statement from AC Helen Ball following #ClaphamCommon vigil "We absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary. But we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people’s safety."

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Scotland became be the first country ever to make sanitary products freely available. Shame is embedded in so many aspects of poverty. The combined stigma of menstruation and poverty must be awful. Hats off to all involved, from MSPs to grassroots groups. Menstrual justice ftw!

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Tax them, please.

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Guardian news

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Richest 1% have almost a quarter of UK wealth, study claims

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A third of women in Scotland have faced sexual harassment at work. They are watching this too. I’m thinking of them, whether they reported it and were let down, or if they never felt able to report it in the first place. Please know it wasn’t your fault and you didn’t deserve it.

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Miriam Brett

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RIP Rabbie Burns, you would’ve loved Wordle.

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Miriam Brett

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So a party Scotland didn’t vote for commissioned a strategist to David Cameron, who Scotland didn’t vote for, as well as a strategist for Brexit, which Scotland didn’t vote for, and Scottish Tory strategist, who lost consecutive elections, to outline why Scotland has a good deal?

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Alberto Nardelli

@AlbertoNardelli

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NEW: The Conservatives have started to sketch out plans to avoid a second Scottish independence referendum, with a memo circulating among a select group of people, including Michael Gove

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Miriam Brett

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Every so often I think about ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ and its contribution to the situation we’re in today. A costly scheme, particularly for public health, designed to get us spending while hospitality faced uncertainty around the furlough extension. What a terrible policy.

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Miriam Brett

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Publicly owned rail. You love to see it.

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Miriam Brett

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I’m sorry your home isn’t as spectacular as mine.

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Miriam Brett

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Hearing rumours that it was actually George Galloway returning back to his natural and infamous form.

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Shetland Elects

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BREAKING: A cat has been ejected from the count in Orkney

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Miriam Brett

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Scotland could bring about an Unexplained Wealth Order - a ‘McMafia’ order - targeting Trump to investigate possible criminal financing in relation to Turnberry golf course. Imagine what we might uncover. Make it happen, Scotland!

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Parliament to hold vote on Unexplained Wealth Order into Donald Trump's finances

MSPs will be asked to vote this week on whether the Scottish Government should pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) to investigate the source of financing for Donald Trump’s Scottish resorts.

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MSPs will vote on Trump being issued an Unexplained Wealth Order. This isn’t an accusation. There’s evidence suggesting financial crime. Investigating it is responsible. This is Scotland’s chance to distance itself from Britain’s questionable approach to financial crime.

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Sending a deeply unpopular leader to a country that didn’t vote for him, while nobody else is able to travel to Scotland, to tell everyone how grateful they should be for his terrible handling of the pandemic is probably not the best advert for the union.

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Incidentally, over the last ten years, the Big Six - which includes Scottish Power - have paid out nearly £23 billion in dividends: six times their tax bill for the period.

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Power Ahead: An Energy System Fit for the Future | Briefing | Common Wealth

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BBC News (UK)

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Scottish Power debt team filmed raiding wrong home

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Miriam Brett

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“I got smacked as a child and it did me no harm.” If you, an adult, are rallying behind the right to inflict violence on children then yes, it probably did do you harm.

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Miriam Brett

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@realDonaldTrump You’re not welcome in Scotland, just in case your plan was to hide out at your golf courses. Talking of your scottish golf courses, can you confirm if the rumours that they may have been used for money laundering and/or fraud are true..?

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Miriam Brett

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Strange way to describe someone found guilty of recruiting and trafficking children to be sexually abused.

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BBC News (UK)

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Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The downfall of a favourite daughter

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We basically just won the Euros.

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Miriam Brett

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Failing to combat a moral panic fuelled by disinformation scapegoating transgender people is a failure to protect the rights of a marginalised community. The tipping point should’ve been a long time ago. It’ll only fester, and the consequences are unimaginable. If not now, when?

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Miriam Brett

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I didn’t get to say goodbye to my Grandad or attend his funeral last winter because of Covid restrictions, which were designed to keep people safe. They’re laughing at the sacrifices we made and the rule book they handed out to us but didn’t follow.

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Miriam Brett

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Might just retweet this every day tbh

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Miriam Brett

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Your regular reminder that women are not responsible for the behaviour of men.

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I can’t begin to imagine what it must feel like to be transgender in the UK just now. The consistent peddling of misinformation to fuel a moral panic against a tiny and hugely persecuted minority group is beyond awful, and will have real life implications on their safety.

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Miriam Brett

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So a woman goes missing while walking home, the police tell *women* to be careful, they arrest a *MET officer* for kidnap + murder, they’re investigated for not investigating him properly, then they say women can’t hold a peaceful socially distanced vigil to reclaim the streets?

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Miriam Brett

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Really heartened to see extended voting rights in Scotland in action. Not only are 16 and 17 year olds able to vote, so is anyone with leave to remain, including people with refugee status and those granted asylum, as well as some prisoners. Such an important step forward.

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Enough is enough.

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A timely reminder that a few people reacted to a UK Government mini-budget that generated widespread economic chaos by calling on the Scottish Government to replicate the policies.

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Miriam Brett

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This from Rape Crisis should be the primary concern of all involved in and commenting on the investigation.

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Miriam Brett

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Although this is a Liberal Democrat hold, to see this scale of swing in Shetland, which has voted liberal for over 70 years, is nothing short of astounding.

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Ballot Box Scotland

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Shetland Islands (Highlands & Islands) Constituency Vote: Lib Dem ~ 5803 (48.6%, -18.8) SNP ~ 4997 (41.9%, +18.8) Conservative ~ 503 (4.2%, +0.5) Labour ~ 424 (3.6%, -2.3) Independent ~ 116 (1%, +1) Restore Scotland ~ 90 (0.8%, +0.8) #SP21 #BBS21

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Miriam Brett

4 years

So furlough is only reinstated when the south of England needs it, and will, by the sounds of this, end when it no longer needs it. Covid has exposed the limits of devolution, and not just for Scotland.

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Douglas Fraser✒️🎥🎙

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Scots finance secretary @KateForbesMSP : ““Despite discussions today, @hmtreasury continue to deny our request that full furlough at 80% be available in Scotland at any point we need it, suggesting that it’s only available for duration of a lockdown in England”...

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Miriam Brett

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Those photos of ‘meals’ for children are sickening and it feels as though there are no limits to what the government will outsource to private companies focussed on profit maximisation and extraction, even if it means children go hungry.

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Fascists being humiliated at the ballots? You love to see it, Scotland.

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Miriam Brett

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Heartfelt congratulations to @patrickharvie on this glowing reference from Eric Trump.

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Martyn McLaughlin

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Eric also reserved criticism for @patrickharvie , who is bringing the debate to the Scottish Parliament. "Patrick Harvie," he said, "is nothing more than a national embarrassment with his pathetic antics that only serve himself and his political agenda."

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Miriam Brett

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“Culture of dependency” talk has been key to fuelling hatred of poor people, and justifying further social security cuts. Among the many factors that are important to remember here is that 40% of Universal Credit claimants are already in work.

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Miriam Brett

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@jcrdandaly I recently learned, via @AdamRamsay , that most English people don’t use the word “squint” to describe, for example, a picture frame being squint on the wall.

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Miriam Brett

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Glasgow’s finest investigative twitter team tracked down the talented photographer! The excellent photo was taken by @MeachRachel !

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Miriam Brett

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I am begging you to tax this man more.

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The Hill

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Elon Musk's business partner says he could build the real "Jurassic Park" with genetically engineered dinosaurs

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City dealmakers, hedge fund managers and company bosses flying into the UK will be exempt from the 14-day quarantine period under plans to “promote global Britain”. I hate it here.

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Seven-day Covid quarantine — and none for jet set

People who are told to stay indoors because a household member has coronavirus will soon have to self-isolate for as little as seven days after widespread refus

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Miriam Brett

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Solidarity to all party candidates and campaigners from oppressed and marginalised groups and communities that have been made to feel unwelcome, threatened and hurt by far right bile like this.

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“I need urgent backup. Things are spiralling here. They’ve got an inflatable Nessie. We’ll need at least 50 coppers here, pronto”

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Heidi Chow

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Our @dropthedebt Loch Ness debt monster is being impounded by the police at #cop26 We wanted to show that the global South debt crisis cannot be ignored if we are to achieve climate justice.

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1430 sunset, 60 degrees North.

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Can we move on to other pressing matters now, like how on Earth this happened?

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Miriam Brett

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Honestly feeling a bit emotional seeing rent controls and better protection for tenants being brought in at Holyrood. As anyone who has experienced housing insecurity and horrible housing conditions will tell you, it’s dangerous and frightening.

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Miriam Brett

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Smiling through the rain in a London beer garden full o Scots. Mon then Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Miriam Brett

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Responses like this to sexual violence accusations are all too common, and are part of a wider effort - consciously or otherwise - to normalise and legitimise a culture of sexual violence while delegitimising the voices of those speaking out about it.

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It’s rumoured that Trump is coming to Scotland. Issuing an Unexplained Wealth Order would be the most perfect ‘welcome’. He has a track record of treating people in Scotland - not least the residents he humiliated in Aberdeenshire - horribly. Here’s a chance to stand up to him.

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Sorry, England.

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Daniel Lawson

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"Scotland football fans should put aside their bitterness and petty attitude to wish their neighbours well"

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Miriam Brett

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To brighten up your weekends, here’s my nephew in Shetland seeing his first massive whale 🐋

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Miriam Brett

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Merry Christmas to this wee one, and this wee one only.

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Miriam Brett

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The outsourced test, track and trace system has lined the pockets of corporate giants who have failed us. Two weeks ago I called for the cycle of lockdowns to be broken by placing public health in public hands. It was needed then and it’s needed now.

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Miriam Brett

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I don't care if she was witty on Have I Got News For You, Ruth Davidson backs the rape clause, then tries to lie about what it is. Shameful.

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STV News

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Ruth Davidson on rape clause: All they do is tick a box

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Miriam Brett

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“For climate justice and social justice, where no one gets left behind.” 💪

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Miriam Brett

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If you’ve wondered what the red line will be for politicians to act, it’s not people starved of food, aid, fuel, internet, water and electricity. It’s not indiscriminate bombing. It’s not 3000 dead children. It’s not a ground invasion. And it’s also not bombing a refugee camp.

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“The government has failed to publish any information about £4bn of Covid-related contracts awarded to private companies, in what appears to be a continuing breach of UK law.” Four. Billion. Pounds.

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Miriam Brett

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Black people are being brutalised and murdered by institutionalised racism and all this lot had to do was momentarily kneel to show solidarity. The bar is so low, and they couldn’t even do that. This decision will send a message loud and clear, and shame us on the global stage.

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Scotland National Team

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#FootballUnites against racism. We will continue to take a stand against racism prior to kick-off for all of our UEFA #EURO2020 matches.

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Miriam Brett

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Seeing businesses and charities offering to feed kids is an example humanity at its best. But child hunger in a wealthy nation does not just happen, it’s created. It soared under austerity. It was the government’s decision to cause it and its their responsibility to fix it.

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Miriam Brett

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Call the police if the police make you feel unsafe

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LBC

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Run away and call 999 if you are stopped by a lone officer and feel unsafe, the Met now says

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Miriam Brett

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I love many things about deciding to move back to Glasgow but expensive buses that don’t arrive on time - if at all - isn’t one of them. If someone could sort a publicly owned integrated public transport system in the city, I’d really appreciate it.

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Miriam Brett

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This hurts. Many of us have to live with the grief that a loved one died alone from heroin - and that their death may well have been prevented with a health-based policy approach, including safe consumption rooms.

@STVNews

STV News

6 months

Penny Mordaunt has claimed young Scots will have 'somewhere safe and warm to take heroin' as a result of the SNP’s 'appalling legacy'.

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Miriam Brett

4 years

Poverty is not something 8,000,000 ‘slip’ into. It is a political choice.

@NBCNews

NBC News

4 years

8,000,000 Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study finds.

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@MiriamBrett

Miriam Brett

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Everyone deserves fair wages and decent working conditions. Holding strikes during COP in Glasgow sends a powerful message, and will hammer home how indispensable these workers are. More power to them.

COP26: Strikes and disruption during Glasgow climate summit

What is the impact on Glasgow, during talks that could bring changes to lives across the world?

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@MiriamBrett

Miriam Brett

2 years

Legal frameworks in the global trading system allow corporations to sue governments in secret courts over climate protections, deepening power imbalances: between rich & poor states & corporations & workers. We need to end ISDS & the Energy Charter Treaty.

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@MiriamBrett

Miriam Brett

4 years

The “since the weekend” here broke me.

@KathrynSamsonC4

kathryn samson

@KathrynSamsonC4

4 years

. @Douglas4Moray on furlough extension. 'I have consistently made the case since the weekend that jobs in Moray and across Scotland had to be protected at all costs. “I am very pleased to see that the Scottish Conservative pressure has now delivered. ''

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