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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

BIG BOX OF BOOKS! 💚🧡

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Donna McLean

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8 months

We need to talk about men not raping women

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52 today! Happy bloody mary day!

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What's her age got to do with it? She's fab. We've got a clapped out arsehole of a 57 year old in charge of ruining the country.

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'When I arrived at Enniskillen police station to make the initial complaint I asked for a female officer and got a male. I was already nervous enough. Then when the PPS rejected my case, I felt hopeless.' Solidarity with Nicola Gallagher #Ibelieveher

‘If my story helps one woman or man then it will have been worth it’ – Nicola Gallagher on domestic...

Nicola Gallagher sat in front of her computer in her home in Co Fermanagh last Tuesday, looking again at the 478 words she had written on her Facebook page...

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Donna McLean

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8 months

Sneak this out in the midst of sackings and reshuffles

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers

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Donna McLean

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2 years

Full piece now available online. Thanks so much for kind words everyone (it's a wee bit scary)! x

I was engaged to an undercover police officer - everything in the relationship was a lie

To me, Carlo was the activist who swept me off my feet. Only years later did I discover that nothing he told me had been real – and that he was a spy cop and already married

www.theguardian.com

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 years

"When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law."

Daniel Ó Coileáin

@DanielCollins85

4 years

Bernadette Devlin explains British "democracy" to William Buckley in 1972: "When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law." Changing inconvenient laws to circumvent illegality has long been a British government tactic.

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Donna McLean

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Glasgow. How proudly antifascist.

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Scotland. How embarrassing.

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Donna McLean

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@LucyGoBag Has he any idea how periods also affect the bladder and the bowel? Any understanding of bladder or bowel conditions? And has he any idea what a school toilet is actually like at lunchtime?

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Donna McLean

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1 year

@chris_power I have only a rubbish heap in my head. Yes.

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Donna McLean

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1 year

Hi @RefugeCharity I'm a survivor of DA and I think Fiona Bruce's perception of Stanley Johnson's violence against his wife negates her being an ally.

Brenda Gough 🌱🤝

@BelfastBre

1 year

Fiona Bruce either didn't know, or lied. Either way, she's an ambassador for @RefugeCharity and should be told domestic violence is rarely a "one off".

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Donna McLean

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'Midlife is often particularly poignant for women with daughters as they are forced to watch them blossom while their own bloom fades.' OH FFS, STOP IT

Kate at 50: Why she is finding ageing harder that the Nineties Mossy Possy’

As the coolest ‘It-girl’ of her generation reaches a milestone birthday, she happily admits she’s in denial about it but, says Peta Hicks, her friends think she may be struggling more than she lets...

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Donna McLean

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2 years

'Every time they [Tories] get a problem, they want to change the law...' #bbcqt

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Donna McLean

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@theactualemma God, he's so not in tune with the Paddington theme

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Donna McLean

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4 years

After five years of feeling compelled to hide my identity, I've made the decision to reclaim my name from those who stole my trust and my life. Truth is power. Love and solidarity ❤

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

4 years

Council houses.

Meriel

@MerielMyers

4 years

What would you bring back from the good old days to help society today? I would like to start with manners...

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Donna McLean

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2 years

Barlinnie?

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Donna McLean

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4 years

@fliceverett FFS. A brilliant programme becomes a denial of systemic racism. How does this arsehole woman still get paid to write a column?

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Donna McLean

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2 years

Sorry not sorry, final charity shop find of the night. Yay or nay?

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Donna McLean

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8 months

"Keep them off British soil. Send them to Orkney." Lee Anderson is like the worst pub bore you've ever met, but with shit geography and extra racism.

Phantom Power

@PhantomPower14

8 months

Asylum seekers should be sent to Orkney or some other remote island in Scotland, says Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson.

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

'A humdinger of a review from Wall Street Journal made comparisons with Franz Kafka and Henry James, but this razor-sharp satire has barely been mentioned in the UK press. “Other writers don’t even know I have a book out,” he says. “Imagine, no reviews.”'

James Kelman interview: It has been a lonely struggle, says Scotland’s first Booker winner

When the first Scot to win the Booker Prize is sitting in the café by the literature section of Glasgow’s biggest bookshop, a procession of admirers might be e

www.thetimes.com

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

Happy paperback publication day to moi! Love my title, glad I'm still a Small Town Grrrrl. ❤💛 #SmallTownGirl #NaeHatersPlease

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 years

Excited to share the cover of my book SMALL TOWN GIRL, coming from @Hodder_Studio in March 2022. Love the design! Available to pre-order here:

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 months

Gen X here. Moved to London in my twenties. Lived for free in a squat. Got a job. Got a better job. Got paid to study. Had a feckin ball. Gen Z kids have none of the advantages that I had and wouldn't even understand the privileges that you've had, Ms Money-Funny.

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

4 months

There aren't many professions where you can have a false identity created by the state, armed with a fake birth certificate, driving licence and bank account, and use them to deceive women into abusive long-term sexual relationships #spycops

Metropolitan Police

@metpoliceuk

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"There aren’t many professions where from the minute you arrive at an incident, you are filmed and then critiqued by armchair commentators." Commissioner defends officers after a weekend where too many were injured or faced abuse, online and in person.

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"As Truman Capote wrote of something else, this isn’t writing, it’s typing. Sometimes Moran doesn’t even type. She cuts and pastes."

What About Men? by Caitlin Moran review – bantz gone bad

A tendentious take on masculinity that takes unoriginal thoughts and confirms them in the echo chamber of Twitter

www.theguardian.com

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 years

Jean Charles de Menezes did *not* run. The Metropolitan police armed unit opened fire on him at close range. Jean Charles was pinned down on a seat on an underground train. Let's all make sure we share the truth. #JeanCharlesDeMenezes

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

Council houses

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

2 years

Ok. Let’s do this. Instead of imperial measurements, what *should* we bring back?

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Donna McLean

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1 year

It's paperback publication week for Small Town Girl! Big love to all pals who've bought the book, come along to events and supported me over the last year. The best adventure ❤💛💃🏽🥂🍾

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Donna McLean

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2 years

My charity shop rug is worth a bleedin fortune

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Donna McLean

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10 months

@GrantSana 7 years waiting, for that decision? And they ask why women don't report rape.

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Donna McLean

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Idles bore me beyond belief. Every song sounds the fckn same and they think they represent good masculinity. It's apolitical vanity at best. #Glastonbury2024

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Donna McLean

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1 year

What the man said 👇🏽

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

Imagine being a woman of any age and not giving a shite what anyone thinks

Jedediah Bila

@JedediahBila

1 year

Imagine being a 62-year-old woman doing this and believing it's in any way appealing to anyone.

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

10 months

📢 Can I please have a quick hands up on which of my lovely Twitter/ X pals have heard of Rose Reilly? Thx

Keith K Smith

@KeithKSmith2

10 months

@Donna__McLean I had never heard of Rose until I read this. A 54 year old Scottish football fan should have done before now. Proves your point. Nice one 👍

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Donna McLean

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4 years

This morning (before delivering our powerful opening statements) my legal team have to argue *again* for my right to name the man who abused me. There are no grounds for silencing me. This is all about social embarrassment. Wish me luck! x #spycops #SpycopsInquiry

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Donna McLean

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7 months

RIP to the finest poet, Shane MacGowan. Love to family and friends of the genius fella ❤️

The Pogues star Shane MacGowan, best known for Christmas hit Fairytale Of New York, dies at 65

Born in Kent on Christmas Day in 1957, Shane MacGowan will forever be associated with the festive period thanks to The Pogues' 1987 hit, Fairytale Of New York, featuring the late Kirsty MacColl.

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Donna McLean

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Stonehenge will be here long after we're all gone. This wouldn't have been my choice of action, but if you are more outraged by powder paint than decapitated babies, you exist in a moral vacuum.

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1 year

Met this fella yesterday. He owns South Belfast.

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Donna McLean

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5 months

Shame on anyone from any party playing word games while children pick up pieces of their parents from the pavement

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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Andrew Gwynne explaining he doesnt support the SNP motion, which calls for an immediate ceasefire, because it doesn't say both sides should stop fighting Of course Gwynne knows what the word ceasefire means. He's just playing games with words & treating us like fools. Shameless

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Donna McLean

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I was fiercely loyal to Ken Stott, didn't get John Hannah in the role at all, but this new version of #Rebus is highly watchable. Younger Rebus, set in the present day, with lots of cultural reference points. If you know, you know. 4/5 from me.

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Donna McLean

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2 years

Happy birthday to me! Crazy couple of years, looking forward to a quiet life from now on ❤

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Donna McLean

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1 year

Have a negroni. Have two. Have a #BourdainDay 🖤

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Donna McLean

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4 months

Music lessons were free in school. I played violin. The instrument was loaned free, too. (I was a free school meals kid). If access to the arts is our metric for a civilised society, we've zoomed backwards at a terrifying pace.

Chardine Taylor Stone

@ChardineTaylor

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What working class kid in the 80s was playing flute and in a youth orchestra? Sorry lessons for instruments that require classical training COST MONEY. Being comfortably lower middle class and comparing yourself to very rich kids does not make you working class.

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Donna McLean

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9 months

This is heartbreaking. Many of the responses directed at the Yousaf family are sickening. What a time we live in.

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

9 months

'My wife and I are sick with worry about whether or not, frankly, her parents, my in-laws, will survive or not' Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf tells reporters his parents in-law are 'trapped' in Gaza after visiting family

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Donna McLean

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2 years

@electra_rhodes This gave me absolute shivers! 🖤

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Donna McLean

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8 months

Here's the stunning Robert Montgomery artwork I mentioned

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Donna McLean

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1 year

Birthday of best friend A, who died by suicide 3 yrs ago. Going to light a candle and play some tunes later. And pour a Prosecco, darling, as A never turned up empty-handed. She sent a postcard from every trip and never forgot the kids' birthday. Tell folk that you love them 🖤🖤

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'Champion boxer David Haye described Dizzee Rascal as “calm and collected” in evidence at the musician’s assault trial.' Yeah, perpetrators of abuse often are... with other men.

Boxer David Haye vouches for ‘role model’ Dizzee Rascal at assault trial

The sportsman described the grime artist as a ‘stand-up and down-to-earth kind of man’.

www.independent.co.uk

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Donna McLean

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1 year

I'm procrastinating hugely today and currently racking my brain to find a better short story as song. Pulp, Common People?

Mat Osman

@matosman

1 year

Just heard ⁦ @Squeezeofficial ⁩ ‘s Up The Junction on the radio. Has there ever been a better short story in song form? I know Waterloo Sunset is the capital’s unofficial anthem but I think this might be the quintessential London song

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He was caught by a police sting. This was his SECOND attempt to rape a child. He's given a suspended sentence because...?

Jason Pedlow 💙

@JasonPedlow

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Sorry, let me get this right. @PennyMordaunt 's brother gets 6 months suspended sentence for trying to meet a 14 year old girl for sex. 6 months. Suspended. He intended to rape a child (statutory). SIX MONTHS. SUSPENDED. One rule for them. As always.

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Pricks on the internet #99

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3 years

No, I meant it

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1 year

This is about as cool as you can look

Nick Portnell

@NPortnell

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This is about as cool as you can look.

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Donna McLean

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My stepdad just got a job as a hospital porter. He's a glazier, he has plenty of customers... but he can't get the glass to do the jobs. They never warned us about that bit of #Brexshit did they? Anyway, I'm very proud of him and he'll be lovely with the patients ❤

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Donna McLean

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2 years

The @GdnSaturday has printed an extract from my book today (and there's a picture of me looking moody).

Gordon Wise

@gordonwise

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My jaw still drops every time I read your story ⁦ @Donna__McLean ⁩. Great to read the extract in today’s ⁦ @guardian ⁩. ⁦ @HodderPublicity ⁩ ⁦ @HodderStudio ⁩ ⁦ @CBGBooks ⁩

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@katerhardy I took two years off work as had twins (only get maternity leave for one baby, it's rubbish). My childcare would have taken up my entire salary. Moved to France for a year cos it was considerably cheaper than living in London! BTW, yer man there sets himself a hefty budget...

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2 years

He's not heard of Ireland or Bosnia. Terrible education these rich folks get.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

2 years

#ICYMI : Prince William said it's rather normal to see war and bloodshed in Africa and Asia but not Europe, during a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London today. "It's very alien to see this in Europe. We are all behind you," he told the volunteers there.

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"I could tell them how much I’ve spent on lawyers, or how much I’ve spent on therapy, or how much I’ve spent on dental work from grinding my teeth in my sleep, and how many hours I sleep, which is not many..." Oh my 💔🔥

I suddenly became a hit writer – but I felt my husband treated my career like an interruption of my...

When poet Maggie Smith’s Good Bones went viral, it helped to expose a faultline at the centre of her marriage. What happened when the true dynamic of her relationship was revealed?

www.theguardian.com

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4 months

I am so angry. SO angry. The disrespect is off the scale.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

4 months

During today's #PMQs , Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott who repeatedly stood to ask a question. Britain's first Black woman MP being disrespected in the House of Commons, as news emerged of the Tory Party's biggest donor saying she should be shot, is most concerning.

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2 months

Oh no. RIP #BernardHill 🖤

Barbara Dickson

@BarbaraDickson

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It’s with great sadness that I note the death of Bernard Hill. We worked together in John Paul George Ringo and Bert, Willy Russell marvellous show 1974-1975. A really marvellous actor. It was a privilege to have crossed paths with him. RIP Benny x #bernardhill

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"Investigations into sexual abuse at a notorious Belfast boys’ home were allegedly blocked in order to use a paedophile housemaster as an MI5 agent, the High Court has heard."

Notorious boys' home investigation 'blocked to protect MI5 agent' | ITV News

Counsel for two former Kincora residents claimed some police officers obstructed any probe into William McGrath. | UTV News

www.itv.com

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Donna McLean

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5 months

This is unconscionable

The National

@ScotNational

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BREAKING: Keir Starmer is set to order Labour MPs to ABSTAIN on the SNP's ceasefire motion tomorrow - because it accuses Israel of engaging in the 'collective punishment' of Palestinians.

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They bombed a refugee camp. A safe zone. They set it on fire, killing people in their sleep. This utter depravity is supported by the government. It's not the behaviour of our teenagers we need to worry about; it's the complicity of the UK in war crimes & the silence of so many.

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Donna McLean

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3 years

I wrote a piece for @IndyVoices about my friend Kate Wilson's monumental victory against the Met police and our collective experience within @out_of_lives of state-sponsored abuse. There are no bad apples - the whole orchard is rotten. #spycops

Opinion: I was deceived into an intimate relationship with a Met Police officer

This was no accident, no ‘rogue’ officer taking advantage. This was state-sponsored abuse of women on an enormous scale, and we were never given any answers

www.independent.co.uk

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

Wrong headline @BBCNews . *Love* carried him through to the finish. Now leave him be.

Lewis Capaldi: Crowd offers support as he struggles to finish Glastonbury set

After suffering vocal problems, the Scottish star suggests he might have to take an extended break.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Donna McLean

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1 year

Three years ago, on Bastille Day, I reclaimed my name. It's been one helluva journey since! ❤✊🏼

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3 years

Excited to share some good news! " @Hodder_Studio is delighted to have a signed an original podcast and memoir from activist, writer, and key witness in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Donna McLean." Thank you @HarrietPoland and @gordonwise ! ❤ #spycops

Spy cops deal for Hodder

BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

www.bookbrunch.co.uk

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1 year

Twenty people died in ONE nursing home in my small town. Their families couldn't visit them. The staff were utterly heroic. This lot, on the other hand, were total bastards.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

1 year

🚨 | BREAKING: A first ever video of partygate has been leaked showing the Tories drinking, dancing and LAUGHING at breaking covid rules “Are you filming this? As long as we’re not steaming that we’re like, bending the rules ahahah”

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I might be dancing tonight...

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How is everyone coping with heart heaviness at the minute? I feel helpless/ hopeless 😔

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1 year

"I want to mourn her but also celebrate her because that’s what we do in Ireland... We celebrate our deaths. Yes, she was taken far too young but there’s so much to celebrate rather than talk about the negative aspects of her life."

‘Oh my God, this is like recording Nina Simone’: David Holmes on producing Sinéad O’Connor’s final...

Over the last five years, O’Connor and Holmes made an unreleased album about healing. He recalls his time working with ‘the purest voice we will ever hear’

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'The three-day weekend at the beginning of May will include two grand processions, a religious service, a star-studded concert held at Windsor Castle, and a day of volunteering.' I'll volunteer to make a few #AbolishTheMonarchy t-shirts

King Charles's coronation set to be three-day spectacle of 'ceremonial, celebratory and community...

King Charles's coronation will be far from a slimmed down event. The three-day weekend at the beginning of May will include two grand processions, a religious service, a star-studded concert held at...

news.sky.com

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

Post an album without a bad song on it

Mic Wright

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1 year

Post an album without a bad song on it…

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A wee bit of contemplation, Glasgow style

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Dressing in your 50s, the couldn't give a f*ck edit

Complete Control PR

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Let me guess, lots of skinny attractive grey haired women in tailored suits….

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2 years

The Met had this information three days before he killed Sarah Everard.

PA Media

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#Breaking Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens has been charged with four counts of indecent exposure, which allegedly took place between January and February last year, the Crown Prosecution Service said

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This makes me furious. When will judges - and everyone else in the CJS - realise that a woman's job/ intelligence/ success/ friends have FUCK ALL to do with domestic abuse?

Sam Beckinsale

@beckinsale_sam

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Manchester Crown Court’s Judge Richard Mansell would not jail her abuser as he concluded 'she was not vulnerable enough because she was "an intelligent woman with a network of friends" and a university degree.' ' please sign 🙏 thank you @Rachel_SUTDA

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Ridiculously in love with being in Paris again - first time in 8 years!

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Public service. Give him a medal, buy him a pint ✊🏼

Politics UK

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🚨 EXCL: A Royal Mail postman has been caught writing 'racists' on Reform UK leaflets A RM spokesman said: "We are aware of the video and are conducting immediate enquiries. It’s our priority to ensure all candidate mail is delivered with the same, high level of service."

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Scumford and Sons

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Name the band, wrong answers only.

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2 years

Out celebrating publication day with the mothership ❤

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2 years

He was jailed for breaching a court order. Stop spreading misinformation.

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@Donna__McLean

1 year

This headline is awful @BelTel and you are doing Nicola Gallagher and all victim/ survivors of DA a great disservice by framing it in this way. #Ibelieveher

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 years

You literally spied on them.

Metropolitan Police Federation

@MPFed

3 years

These are appalling words from Emergency Services colleagues. Police and firefighters often work side by side in testing environments - they should be showing solidarity. For the FBU to make such a sweeping statement without being aware of the facts is embarrassingly out of touch

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

On connection, belonging, Twitter pals, @memorialdevice , Gabor Maté and Jimmy Reid x via @pressjournal

Opinion | Every human connection makes us more present

Whether it's in person or online, connecting genuinely with other people is a vital part of living a happy life, writes Donna McLean.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

Nan Goldin doc on BBC Two tonight. It's BRILLIANT.

BBC Two - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Documentary exploring the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

I'm sure the lads are devastated by this news. Now get Bowie aff it too. He turned down a CBE and a knighthood.

Proclaimers removed from King's coronation playlist

The BBC understands the move was made in response to complaints about the band's anti-royal views.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

@jessf_white God forbid anything is about pleasure (or broadening your horizons)

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

Cake!

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

Over the moon! I've been invited to write a regular column for @PJOpinion , starting next month. Can't wait 💙

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

'Happiness is a myth. It is transient. Joy is rare and intermittent. Often, what we pursue is the opposite of happiness – we pursue the avoidance of pain. That doesn’t necessarily make you happy in the long run.'

Opinion | Self-awareness is the key to self-care during trying times

We have to pay attention when our personal equilibrium is off in order to turn things around, writes Donna McLean.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

3 years

I need something French to watch. (It's a coping mechanism). I've done all of Call My Agent, Torn, The Eddy and Inhuman Resources. What else is out there?!

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

6 months

Oh fuck off

BBC News Africa

@BBCAfrica

6 months

Oscar Pistorius - the fallen hero and his future

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

These two are 14 tomorrow 🌼🌻

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

1 year

@brokenbottleboy I've no idea who Stig Abell is but sneering at someone's m/h struggles is despicable

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

2 years

I would call this unbelievable, but it's not. Horrific state abuse on an astonishing scale.

Josep Lluís Alay

@josepalay

2 years

Spanish former police chief admits that the Spanish secret services (CNI) were behind the jihadist attacks in Barcelona, August 2017. Their intention was ‘to scare Catalonia just before the independence referendum.’ 16 people from various nationalities were killed.

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Donna McLean

@Donna__McLean

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Only your granny would let you have this from the Van

PictureThis Scotland

@74frankfurt

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Scottish Cuisine: The Double Nougat.

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