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Trauma informed journalist and author. PhD Journalism, media and communication @UniStrathclyde

Scotland, United Kingdom
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📢📢Research study: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the popular Scottish press. What is it like for people with PTSD who have appeared in the Scottish press? @StrathHum @UniStrathclyde
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"His head is full of mince." Greatest verdict ever on Robert Jenrick.😂 Brian Cox wins a new legion of fans. #bbclaurak #Scottish #Tories
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The Post Office identified 700 convictions between 1999 and 2015 which featured Horizon computer evidence. There have ONLY been 93 overturned convictions. An unspeakable disgrace. #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Horizon @PostOffice
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Rishi Sunak, the richest former prime minister in history, complains that train drivers will get a pay rise. He's worth more than £600 million quid. Train drivers get £50/60k. Since when has he been interested in wealth distribution? #politicslive #PMQs #PrimeMinistersQuestions
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"We had to bury our baby in a stranger’s coffin. "I got a form for a funeral grant. They said 'Because you're on strike, you're not entitled to the funeral grant'... "Tory bastards. They could have given me a loan," he says in tears. @TheGardenTV #miners #minersstrike
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@piersmorgan Lol. Have to laugh at the irony running through this...
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From pillar box to pillory... The Post Office Horizon scandal stole lives. Blood on their hands. #PostOfficeInquiry #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #Horizon @PostOffice
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@rgpoulussen A lot of them didn't have the choice to wear the uniform or not... The majority of Germans also did not vote for Hitler.
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Tory MPs got the memo - blue ties, navy suits and the same expression. Did they get a discount code for this uniform? #BlueCrew #OnBrand #PMQs #PoliticsLive #Tories
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@KarenAdamMSP Wrong on so many levels. Even the framing of the questions is offensive. I assume the person asking isn't a medical professional..😡
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Laura Kuenssberg letting Grant Shapps off the hook with inaccurate questions about how people with tattoos cannot join the army. Fact check: They can. #BBCLauraK #Politics #SundayMotivation #army
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Richard Madeley goes ultra Alan Partridge ranting about when Christmas starts. Toe curlingly awful. Well played Mick Lynch @RMTunion @GMB @itv #strikes #accidentalpartridge #politics
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Action Man Sunak plans to reintroduce National Service. A misguided throwback to a bygone era. Like the Rwanda flights, it's never gonna happen. Sunak is sunk. #NationalService #ToriesAreDone
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Yvette Cooper goes full batty on @GMB News! She declared Sunak's Rwanda policy "batsh*t" leaving Richard Madeley blinking more than a startled badger. #Rwanda #gmb #Politics #RwandaReview #RwandaNotInMyName
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🚨 JOB NEWS🚨 Chuffed to be appointed Home Affairs Editor at The Sunday Post! Sorry to leave my talented colleagues on the @DC_Thomson Impact team but can't wait to get into this new role. @Sunday_Post #news #journalism
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It doesn't matter what we think. A tiny section of the population will decide the next prime minister. #channel4 #ConservativeLeadershipContest #ToryLeadershipContest #C4News #C4LeaderDebate
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I worry about Nigel Farage. And I find him slightly fascist, quite frankly. Brian Cox speaking truth to power. #BBCLauraK #politics #farage #fascism
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@jimrosecircus1 We are all aliens stuck in ravioli.
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1940 and 2022. We never learn. #Ukraine
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Not long til it's the NHS's turn. #Channel4 #NHSPrivatisation #journalism
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Well chuffed to have won at the @ScotPressAwards tonight!! Looking forward to my future investigative projects with the great folks at the @dct_media Impact team. Good luck to all entrants!😃👍👏
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Sponsored by @EventConsScot , the next award is for Interviewer of the Year. With @SwarbrickHT as runner up, our winner is @StephenPaulStew .
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"People are sick of being made poorer." An interview for our times. @RMTunion @Peston @ITV #strikes #RailStrikes
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I went undercover to get a job at one of Amazon's biggest warehouses. Then Amazon smeared me over the story. The investigation is in @Sunday_Post in shops on Friday + Saturday. @GMBScotOrg @UniteScotland @unitetheunion @J_Bloodworth @azizulis @MattColeWorks #news #christmastime
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"I am sad about it to this day." "There is something missing." Remembering the miners strikes and the repression that changed our country forever. #MinersStrike1984 #MinersStrike @Channel4
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One of the most important social media pages to follow. @AuschwitzMuseum #SundayThoughts
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We hope to reach 1,5 million followers by the end of 2022. Will you help us? Support our mission & amplify our voice in social media.
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"If Sunak can't cope with Piers Morgan, good luck going toe to toe with Putin." 😆 Jess Philips on Sunak's bungling and crass bet about immigration. #PoliticsLive #Rwanda
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Last day at the @Sunday_Post It's been a blast. Here's to new horizons! It was great working with @ladymcbeth2 @TimKnowles2017 @MarkAitken1 @Tele_DaveLord @Janmacd @cunninghampaul and the rest of the crew.
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The breathtaking resilience and determination of murdered Fawziyah Javed's mum shines through this tragedy. The incredible charity continue to support Yasmin. #ThePush4Change #Episode2 #ThePush #Live @KNFMHBV
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@EstherMcVey1 Blatant nonsense. There's loads of evidence that they work. Here is a research paper as a starter for ten...
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Powerful stuff. A hard watch but top notch acting and writing. And all based on real life. Let that sink in... #help @Channel4
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Great Inside Central Station programme tonight showing the work of Terence McCourt and @SSAFA to get a memorial at Glasgow Central station. My grandad who served in the Cameronians in WW2 is mentioned on one of the plaques. @ssafaglasgow @BBC #Scotland
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"When women win, everyone wins." It was a pleasure to meet special envoy Alicia @AliciaH_1 and hear her personal insight into women's education and human rights. #Welcome2023 #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #women @UKGovScotland
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‘It breaks my heart’: Special envoy tells of despair as Taliban wages war on women’s rights @AliciaH_1
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@CPhilpOfficial Too little, too late.
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Richard Madeley dropping some belters today...Civil servants should get back into the office and stop messing about. Also it was good to see the "police get stuck into Hungary fans". Well, at least Judy is getting some respite. #GoodMorningBritain #GMB2021
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Esther McVey peddling the last acceptable form of racism, calling travellers "a blight on the community". Shameful. #PMQs #pmq #PoliticsLive #Tories
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Dominic Raab says @metpoliceuk won't investigate crime retrospectively. Surely all crime is retrospective? They don't probe crime that hasn't happened yet. Also, @PoliceScotland just charged people for a murder that happened 25 years ago.🤔 #andrewmarr
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Aaaand that's it! The final @Sunday_Post news shift of 2022 is finished. It's been a great year working with the team including @MarkAitken1 @ladymcbeth2 @PeterSwindon @Janmacd Here's to 2023! Happy New Year when it comes y'all. #journalism #buyapaper #goodbye2022
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@DefenceHQ Pretty sure next week is a week too late.
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Supporting nuclear test veterans in Scotland today. More power to @atomiclabrats @fleetstreetfox and their campaign. An apology, compensation and a public inquiry are long overdue. #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday #remembranceday2022 #Remembrance
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Paisley man has spoken...😂
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Do you know who Liz Truss is? Paisley man - Yes... Don't vote for her. #GMB
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10 years ago, I was on a flight to Afghanistan. Today, I am glad to be home but sad at the state the country was left in. I'm even sadder about the great people that never came home. #Afghanistan #tuesdaymotivations
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@BWallaceMP @PinnacleSF @mod_dio @VIVODefence Privatising every aspect of government does not work. This proves it yet again...
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A testament to the fight against domestic abuse. @Channel4 #DomesticViolence #ThePush #WomensRights
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Lord Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Baron Vaizey of Didcot, who was once paid £50,000 for one day of work a week, says workers are striking too much. 🤔 #gmb #Tories @TheBMA @RMTunion @NASUWT
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📢 Delighted to have ethical approval for the next stage of my @UniStrathclyde PhD research into PTSD and the Scottish press. A milestone reached. #Trauma #ptsd #media #journalism @sallyanneduncan @HaSSGradSchool @Es_Miyake
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The cops never gave up on the murder of Caroline Glachan who was just 14. It's been 25 years but the family might now get justice. Bravo @PoliceScotland
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"We need more GB News." Like watching a 1970s National Front rally. #politicslive #Tories
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@SuellaBraverman Perhaps you should Google 'scapegoating'?
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📢 Great news! 🎉 Thrilled that my research article on trauma and journalism will soon be published in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication! 📰📚 Being part of this prestigious project is a huge honour. #TraumaAndJournalism #media @alessandro_nai #PoliticalCommunication
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"I'm a fighter not a quitter." 🤔🫣 #LiztrussResign #LizTrussPM #Tories
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Social care staff don't need more cash as they'll get increasing professionalisation, more qualifications and greater esteem, Sunak says. Woeful, says everyone else. #BBCLauraK #Health #sundayvibes #politics @BBC
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This is French Resistance fighter Simone Segouin. She killed her first Nazi in July 1944, derailed a train, blew up bridges and arrested 25 Nazis in one day. She died this week at the age of 97. Simone won't be forgotten. #RipLegend #france #hero
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Nine years ago today, I was on a flight to Afghanistan to start a six month tour. I now know the whole thing did not make one iota of difference... #Afghanistan #wars #OnThisDay
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@WWIIpix Remembered.
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Pleasantly surprised to get a cheeky wee nomination at the Scottish Press Awards for past work @Daily_Record Onwards and upwards 👍
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The audience has laughed at Sunak three times now. He is done. #ITVDebate #SunakvStarmer #UKGeneralElection2024 #GE2024
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Dutch kids lay flowers on the graves of the fallen at Arnhem today.💐 🇳🇱 #arnhem #ww2 #LestWeForget
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News under fire, fight for what's right: I stand with striking STV journalists! Solidarity with reporters who just want a fair deal. Some unfamiliar faces on the news this morning as the industrial action kicks in. #NUJSTVStrike @nujofficial @NUJScotland
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Raucous audience laughter after Farage says he always tells the truth. 😂 #ITVdebate
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🗣️Great chat at the Fringe with @lokiscottishrap @Karin_Goodwin @hello_bennett on journalism, trauma and ethics. #EdFringe2024 #journalism
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The Kelpies lit up in red for the 2022 Scottish Poppy Appeal. @poppyscotland #Scotland
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Delighted to see @dct_media Impact team's hard hitting probe into sexism in football cited by @ZTScotland 's new campaign. @spfl @sfa , Scottish Women’s Football, @GlasgowCityFC are also involved. We need to #CallItOut . #misogyny #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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"If they can take one of us down, then they can come for all of us. We are all more connected than we realise, and more similar. We must all stand up and speak up, take room and make room for all other others." Selena Godden. #Rwanda #humanrights
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Remembrance is not just one day a year. A noble cause. #SaveJunoBeach #NeverForget #veterans
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Dire interview. A textbook example of answering questions you wanted to answer rather than what you were actually asked. #bbcLauraK #Tories
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Scotland is beautiful day or night. #Scotland #NightPhotography #fridaynight
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Sexism, misogyny and even death threats - just for playing the beautiful game. A new investigation looking at the challenges facing women's football.
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Today @pressjournal and @thecourieruk release an new investigation revealing the scale of sexist abuse facing those involved in women's football in our areas. Powerful work by @SophieGoodwin00 and @StephenPaulStew
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Really rewarding to see @DC_Thomson 's look at sexism and misogyny in football being debated in the Scottish Parliament. Top team @Clivingstone_PJ @SophieGoodwin00 @L_A_Kelly @PrestRichard
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My colleague @JoeFitzSNP is leading a debate tomorrow on Sexism in Football. A female football fan myself, I’ll be taking part in the debate. How do other women feel about sexism in football, particularly in Scotland? Is it getting better? Is it worse in some clubs/areas? ⚽️
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😮Tory boy says climate change is "overstated".🤔 #PoliticsLive #tories
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First in, last out. Remembering firefighter Barry Martin and his family. #firefighter #HERO
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Proud moment. My very own @CommandoComic Christmas card. Happy days! @dct_media
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Then and now. The Dutch don't forget. #Arnhem80 #lestweforget
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@PoliticsJOE_UK Whereas Felicity clearly knows so much about the subject...
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During the Holocaust, Nazis called Jews rats. During the Rwandan genocide, Hutus called Tutsis cockroaches. Dehumanisation paves the way for cruelty and genocide. Who has been dubbing people fleeing chaos and war as 'illegals'? #GaryLineker #GaryGate #RefugeesWelcome
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Just brushing up in the case the call comes in...😆 #conscription #army #Russia
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"Come on!!!" "Have you forgotten Liz Truss a year ago!?" Victoria Derbyshire certainly isn't buying the tripe that Jenrick is peddling this morning. #bbclaurak #Israel #Tories @BBCPolitics
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@AndrewJQuinn97 A Tory describes a working class area as a "sh*thole" and then this. They cannot even hide their contempt.
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Normally the steepest, busiest hill in Glasgow... @UniStrathclyde #Scotland #Glasgow
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People are urged not to speculate on the #NicolaBulley case featured on @channel5_tv . Then thousands inevitably rush to offer their half baked theories on social media.🫣🤔 #vanished
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It would be great if just once he answered the question he was actually asked. #PMQs #PoliticsLive @BBCNews #RishiSunak
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Tractor porn MP Neil Parish truly has no shame. Claims he went "cleanly" and he "loves Boris to bits." It was all "a weakness of character". Says he will be missed in Parliament and isn't ruling out a return to public life.🤡🤡🤡🤡 #lorraine #sleaze @ITV #TorySleaze #politics
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Paying my respects to a Scot who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. He has a nice view from his spot in Dumbarton cemetery. Happy St Stephen's Day. #LestWeForget #vietnam @WDCAdmin 🇺🇲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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A Home Secretary who doesn't seem to know the difference between terrorism and counter terrorism... 😂🤕🙈🙈🙈
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Top headline. 😂😷💨💨💨
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3 years
A jury (yes it got as far as a jury) heard he had “broken wind…whilst laughing”
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Happy birthday to wee Elvis! Feeling 'All Shook Up' on his way to the doggy park. Uh huh uh...🐶🐾🐕 #dogsoftwitter #dogsarefamily
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Fine day in Arbroath. Sadly never had time for a Smokie. #tuesdaymotivations
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"I can do much better things with my money than giving it to the government." Stationery magnate Theo Paphitis and his paper thin logic. #BBCLauraK #politics
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