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Gethin Chamberlain

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5 months

Women have a right to gather peacefully in a public place to talk to each other about the challenges they face. They should not have to do so surrounded by a hostile mob of men facilitated by Police Scotland. No other situation would be policed this way. 🧵 #LetWomenSpeak

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This is not a culture war: this is a total failure by politicians to address an assault on women’s legal rights. Female nurses told they must accept the presence of biological men when they are getting dressed at work is not “being kind”. It’s misogyny and it needs to stop now.

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I suspect these nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital will become as famous as the Ford Dagenham women They’ve filed legal action against their Trust for sexual harassment and sex discrimination Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper & Joanne Bradbury

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Edinburgh City Council paid Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre £76,452 to employ a man as CEO. Mridul Wadhwa took a job intended - and protected by law - to be filled by a woman. You’d expect the local paper to be all over this. You’d be wrong. #ercc

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But what was most striking was the way in which police facilitated the disruption of the event. It’s hard to think of another scenario in which police would put up with the level of abuse being directed towards a peaceful public speaking event.

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It is not progressive for men to shout down female speakers and to drown them out with amplified music and rhetoric.

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I went along to observe as a journalist and to try to understand a bit more about what is going on in these confrontations. I could have done without some of the stereotypical male aggression on display from the demonstrators and the interference with my work.

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This was poor policing. It came across as partisan. People have a right to demonstrate. They can do so offensively. But on a subject as divisive as the conflict between the rights of women and trans rights, police need to be seen to be impartial. Police Scotland failed today.

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I’d like to have been able to give this lady the last word, but I couldn’t hear a word she was saying because she was drowned out by a man showing off and speaking over her.

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@DalgetySusan @PoliceScotland It was extraordinary. Struggling to think of any other situation which would be policed this way. Watching police stand by and allow men to surround and scream abuse at a peaceful gathering of women, even facilitating their actions, felt deeply uncomfortable.

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In Edinburgh today police allowed groups of demonstrators right up to the edge of the pen in which the women were allowed to congregate, even affording them a protective cordon. Those allowed to disrupt the event did so noisily and with signs many of the women found offensive.

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Had this been a pro-Palestinian event, would police have allowed hardcore Zionist protesters to set up a sound system to drown it out and allow protesters to set up within a couple of feet of the crowd? They would not and a reasonable person would not expect them to.

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This matters. In a week in which the Hate Crime Act came into force in Scotland, ministers - including the first minister - have repeatedly stressed that the decision on what’s legal and illegal rests with the police. People from both sides have to trust them.

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But they also need to trust their politicians. Policing generally reflects the will of the government: you see this around the world. If police are facilitating those on one side of a debate it’s usually because senior officers have been told that’s what the politicians want.

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3 years

Masks are still compulsory for Scottish schoolchildren 12 and over. Parents evenings are held online. Meanwhile, at COP26, some people have been struggling with Scotland’s rules on wearing masks indoors and in places of work. #sturgeon #masks #scotland

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@AttitudeMag @VirginAtlantic Meanwhile, the Nobel Peace Prize judges had a different opinion on the woman of the year: “Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering commitment to women’s rights in the country.”

Iran: Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi

UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday called for the immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her...

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@blablafishcakes Hope this helps…

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7 months

On 16 November 2021 Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that face coverings remained a legal requirement. Three days later, national clinical director Jason Leitch advised current First Minister Humza Yousaf how to get around the rules by holding a drink. #CovidInquiry

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The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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4 months

If you tell people with an axe to grind that a grindstone exists, that it is free to use and that, moreover, they should use it, it should not come as a surprise when that’s exactly what they do. How Scotland’s Hate Crime Act has backfired spectacularly. 🧵 #HateCrime

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@Baddiel Jurgen Klopp in charge would have won that.

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@joannaccherry Oddly their pledge to record everything as a hate incident, regardless of evidence, is still up on their website

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Could we get the name of the speaker here and what was said? Anyone know?

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Scottish Greens’ Maggie Chapman needs to explain her role in the appointment of a man to head up Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Will she and party leaders be challenged during election campaign over how Mridul Wadhwa was handed a role reserved for a woman?

Man At Work

The judgement in the case of a support worker constructively dismissed by Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre in 2022 is one of the most excoriating we’ve ever read. Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom W…

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@OwenJones84 Polite reminder about the advice from Samaritans, WHO and Editors’ Code of Practice on suicide reporting, which says don’t do this, to avoid copycat deaths. If you have evidence of a surge in deaths, please publish it.

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The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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@JeremyWickins I’m easy to find online - Guardian website or my own: Which needs image updated. I wanted to see why this is so fractious. Anyone who claims to be impartial as a journalist is lying. I thought the women I met nice and the men aggressive. Unsurprisingly.

Gethin Chamberlain - Investigative journalist | Foreign Correspondent | Photojournalist

Freelance journalist and photographer working for UK national papers and international media. Specialist in human rights investigations.

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@WalkerMarcus Glorious

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The ongoing harassment of women gathering to discuss issues related to their rights is bizarre. People have a right to protest, but shouting others down isn’t a good look. Neither is stealing the mike, as happened today in Kirkcaldy. @WWWheesht #womenwontwheesht #letwomenspeak

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11 months

@jane__bradley @C4Dispatches @thetimes It’s an excellent investigation and Brand is a particularly difficult subject, with form for trying to close down investigations. He has the money to pay for top reputation management lawyers. But they can be defeated when the story is true, as we demonstrated eight years ago.

Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

11 months

Interesting to see the level of denial around the Brand story. There was a similar conspiracy-led backlash in 2015 when I revealed he was selling £60 sweatshirts made by workers on just 25p an hour. Now it’s the right: then it was the left. #RussellBrand

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"These are not bottles of Coca-Cola, they are bottles of mineral water. What we see now is that some want to own the definition of what is mineral water. There I can only invite them to come up with a scientific-based, new definition of what is a bottle of mineral water."

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3 months

That sound you can hear all over Scotland right now? It’s people who run grass-roots community projects slamming their heads against walls as they discover the Scottish Government was sitting on £450 million of EU money they desperately needed. #community #poverty

Kieran Andrews

@KieranPAndrews

3 months

EXC: More than £450 million of EU money earmarked for key economic and anti-poverty projects is due to be handed back to Brussels by the Scottish government Scotland is an outlier across the continent - and w/in UK - in failure to spend structural funds

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This is breathtakingly stupid, counterproductive and really quite sinister. Well done, you created such a toxic environment that a book festival - a book festival! - felt it had no choice but to part company with a firm that’s consistently supported the arts. Idiots. #EIBF

Fossil Free Books

@fossilfreebooks

3 months

BIG NEWS: Edinburgh International Book Festival has dropped asset manager Baillie Gifford as a sponsor. This welcome news follows calls from 800+ book workers demanding BG to divest from fossil fuels and from companies with links to Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide.

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The Scottish Government withdrawing the (already pathetic) funding to the Men’s Sheds charity is an appalling decision. These places are lifelines. They tackle isolation. If @JohnSwinney is serious about a reset, then this is an easy win. Reverse it, fund them. They save lives.

The Sunday Post

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Men's Shed charity facing collapse after government pulls funding

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6 years

I’ve taken back control and ended free movement into my driveway. How’s it working out? Not as well as I was expecting, to be honest... #brexit #takebackcontrol

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5 months

@JoDrant @ThePosieParker

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Hate Incidents: how thousands of people are ending up on Scottish police databases for non-crimes. A week away from the introduction of the Hate Crime Act, this is chilling. 🧵 #HateCrime

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4 months

No, the Cass Review did not reject 98% of evidence. Nor did it require studies to be the gold standard of double blind randomised control trials. What allowed this false information to become widespread? A British Medical Journal press release. 🧵

More or Less: Behind the Stats - 98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth...

Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence

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1 year

Looks like hundreds of thousands of families who enjoy traditional Scottish holidays are in for a shock as they discover that their favourite B&Bs and holiday cottages have shut up shop forever. #travel 🧵

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3 months

Just to be clear then. The activists targeting book festivals have failed to make any impact on investment in companies they dislike but have massively set back the promotion of reading and damaged support for authors. How utterly crazy. #bookfestival #BaillieGifford

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@Scott_Wortley A powerful thread. On a day when everyone is falling over themselves to apologise for another scandal, contaminated blood, it seems incredible that there’s been a deafening silence from those responsible for this. Yet here we are again.

Gethin Chamberlain

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3 months

Big questions now for the Scottish Government over funding and future of unrepentant Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre - but also for the UK Government (which oversees the Tampon Tax fund), the BBC (Children in Need) and Comic Relief. Will funders continue to back the board? #ERCC

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2 months

Entitled, over-indulged and naive, these illiberal activists failed to think through the consequences of their ludicrous demands. The only people losing out are authors and readers. And now they have the nerve to try to shift the blame? It’s entirely on them.

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3 years

@ndlkhr @AllisonPearson @AAnthonyMcAleer It’s not that simple. People die as a result of lockdown. My mother did, in howling distress. It wasn’t pretty. I wrote about it. My son’s education has been destroyed by the closures. Life is a balance of risks.

Lockdown killed my mother — and thousands like her

The death certificate records that my mother died of dementia and kidney disease aged 88. But it was lockdown that really killed her

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@KennyFarq @thetimes This really doesn’t come across as an example of a “Scotland marked by generosity of spirit”. Curious why she is acceptable as a cabinet minister, representing the country in a defined role, but not as First Minister?

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As Nicola Sturgeon’s lies and duplicity are laid bare by the Covid inquiry, this extraordinary propaganda clip from 2020 is a reminder of just how far she’s fallen. It was filmed & published by STV News. You need the sound on to appreciate the full awfulness. #Sturgeon #WhatsApp

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Interesting to see the level of denial around the Brand story. There was a similar conspiracy-led backlash in 2015 when I revealed he was selling £60 sweatshirts made by workers on just 25p an hour. Now it’s the right: then it was the left. #RussellBrand

Hypocrite Brand's trendy tops made in Bangladesh sweatshop

Workers in the Bangladeshi factory that produces sweatshirts Russell Brand sells for a minimum of £60 described working seven days a week, up to 11 hours a day, for £52 per month.

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2 months

A week ahead of voting, a man still runs Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. A tribunal found he was behind a “heresy hunt” against a female employee. Mridul Wadhwa got £76,452 from the council. Apparently it’s not an issue for politicians or worth reporting. The Edinburgh paper today:

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1 month

@VictoriaPeckham Maugham’s language has gone way beyond all the best guidelines on the public discussion of suicide. Here’s a quick summary of the best advice for journalists:

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The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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Someone in my replies has decided to put someone else straight on the workings of the law. Unfortunately, the other person is one of the UK's leading legal experts, editor of The Criminal Law Review and reader in law at King's College London. It's going as well as you'd expect.

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3 months

Good to see the Scottish Government has swiftly U-turned on its decision to cut funding for the Scottish Men's Sheds Association for this financial year. But it really should review its funding priorities: this is exactly what government should be supporting.

Gethin Chamberlain

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The Scottish Government withdrawing the (already pathetic) funding to the Men’s Sheds charity is an appalling decision. These places are lifelines. They tackle isolation. If @JohnSwinney is serious about a reset, then this is an easy win. Reverse it, fund them. They save lives.

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Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre is a charity regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. You can use their form to report ERCC. Don’t expect a response, but they are required to consider complaints.

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Not a word of contrition or accountability. No mention of the woman put through three years of severe stress and unwarranted investigation. No mention of rape survivors who self-excluded from their service. For whom are they 'saddened' - the persecutors?

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@BenGoldsmith It could be done better, of course. But it’s still home to a thriving red squirrel population and pine martens are expanding their territory there. There’s ospreys and golden eagles coming over the border from the release programme here in the Scottish Borders. It’s not all bad.

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@Anthony1983 You and your friends set the new rules, so it’s not complicated. You divest from your publisher. You repay any money owed. You only sell through retailers that pass your purity test. You also donate at least half of your profits to support the book festivals you trashed. Simple.

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The Samaritans say suicide should not be presented as a solution to a problem and that describing someone overcoming a suicidal crisis can help others do the same. They point out there’s rarely a single reason for suicide.

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If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it’s maybe that @_KateForbes is far more representative of grass roots Scotland than many commentators think. Also, it’s possible to accept that politicians who are religious can make policy decisions not based on scripture. #SNP

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NEW: Whoever leads Scotland next, it can’t be Kate Forbes My column in @thetimes

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The Editors’ Code of Practice is also clear that nothing should be published that encourages copycat acts including anything that “makes suicide appear to be a solution to adversity”.

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4 months

If new laws are necessary, they need to be framed in a way that can be defended coherently and policed with consent. The politicians who backed this deeply flawed legislation failed to do that. They created a monster and it is consuming them.

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@michaelpforan It seems counterintuitive for a Green Party minister to try to undermine confidence in high quality academic research when a key part of his role in government relies on getting people to believe in science.

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No, the Cass Review did not reject 98% of evidence. Nor did it require studies to be the gold standard of double blind randomised control trials. What allowed this false information to become widespread? A British Medical Journal press release. 🧵

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Big questions now for the Scottish Government over funding and future of unrepentant Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre - but also for the UK Government (which oversees the Tampon Tax fund), the BBC (Children in Need) and Comic Relief. Will funders continue to back the board? #ERCC

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The World Health Organisation says suicide should not be presented as a constructive solution to problems. It advocates educating people about the facts of suicide and suicide prevention “without spreading myths”.

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Language matters. Those reporting guidelines were introduced to improve reporting of the subject by traditional media outlets. They are every bit as relevant to discussion of the subject on this platform.

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Scottish Greens’ Maggie Chapman needs to explain her role in the appointment of a man to head up Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Will she and party leaders be challenged during election campaign over how Mridul Wadhwa was handed a role reserved for a woman?

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@ChrisMusson It’s “burn the witch” time again.

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4 months

If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it’s maybe that @_KateForbes is far more representative of grass roots Scotland than many commentators think. Also, it’s possible to accept that politicians who are religious can make policy decisions not based on scripture. #SNP

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@Scott_Wortley You’d normally expect multiple resignations. Time for @ScotCharityReg to step up and investigate. This is clearly not a properly regulated charity and users are being failed.

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@blablafishcakes The hour spent learning how to add captions to videos while trying to count the number of do do dos to match the music means I will now have this song stuck in my head until the end of time. Still, ridicule is the best response to this sort of thing.

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@jk_rowling And on and on and on we go.

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A woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK “Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home. My thoughts on the Bushey tragedy

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In the life of every doomed government comes a moment when they finally lose touch with the majority of the electorate and begin the inexorable slide towards electoral defeat. Though it’s unusual for that point to be marked by a row over wood burning stoves. 🧵 #stove

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Are there people who dislike Brand for his promotion of conspiracy theories? Yes. Would they like him removed as a voice? Yes. Does that invalidate the investigation? No. If the story is true, then Brand again has questions to answer. Will it change his fans’ minds. Probably not.

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What was needed was strong leadership. Instead a minister who couldn’t explain the details of the law suggested misgendering might be a crime and the First Minister (who introduced the law) insisted it was up to police to decide what was illegal. They couldn’t, or wouldn’t.

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2 years

When you next type MSM dismissively, just remember professional journalists risk their lives every day to report the facts you have an opinion about. We go to the difficult places so you don’t have to. The UN recorded 55 journalist deaths last year. #journalism #sky #ukraine

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@SkyNews

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Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week

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@paul_pwilson I’m less worried about the bar for criminal conviction, which is set quite high: it’s the potential for low level harassment that is most disturbing. The automatic recording of a hate incident with no way of contesting it is astonishing.

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It’s true that less has changed than many think. But that’s due to a Scottish Government and Police Scotland communications strategy so hopeless that the Hate Monster campaign to promote the law gifted its opponents a new, instantly recognisable Scottish cultural icon.

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Policing must never be partisan: how women were failed by @PoliceScotland today. #LetWomenSpeakEdinburgh

Thread by @newsandpics on Thread Reader App

@newsandpics: Women have a right to gather peacefully in a public place to talk to each other about the challenges they face. They should not have to do so surrounded by a hostile mob of men...

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@ralphaverbuch Possibly because the way the issue has been framed - as anti-trans rather than pro women’s rights - and also because it has been seen as just too complicated and controversial. Sometimes a narrative becomes established and it is very hard to challenge it.

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So pissed off about being duped about free range eggs I spent my story fee from the Mirror buying my own chickens.

Horrifying truth of the brutal life of free range hens laid bare

Up to 16,000 hens are crammed onto shelves in sheds with the end of their beaks cut off and male chicks gassed at just a DAY old

www.mirror.co.uk

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Was it intended to shut him up? Not on my part. I’m freelance: I specialise in labour rights investigations and it’s easier to get them into the papers if you’re exposing celebrity hypocrisy. There were clearly issues in the supply chain & questions to answer on where money went.

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Most people had no idea the police were promising to record every report as a hate incident even if it didn’t involve criminal behaviour, based solely on the perception of the person filing the report, which shouldn’t be challenged. But they do now.

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Brand has money and money buys access to expensive legal representation. He puts up quite a fight, which means it takes time to get to publication and you have to be right. But in our case he eventually had to put up his hands and admit defeat.

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3 years

@AllisonPearson @JamesMelville Nicola Sturgeon’s sister shared pictures of them together at a family party last month. No wonder she looks awkward - she banned standing up indoors in venues like this without a mask.

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@ForWomenScot Lots. It’s still not entirely clear they recognise who they are debating, but if you’re going to pick a fight over the law, taking on @HannahQuirk1 and @michaelpforan at the same time seems a sub-optimal life choice.

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And that’s how, a week after the Hate Crime Act came into force, we’ve reached the point where a Scottish Government minister is having to condemn his father for posting on social media an image of a swastika within a Star of David after police initially refused to investigate.

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Translation: “We assumed everyone would agree with the ideologues we appointed and over-indulged. We’re not saying we disagree with them, just that something, blah, blah, blah. Trust us, we didn’t mean to say the thing we published. Er, will that do?”

Literature Alliance Scotland

@LitScotland

3 months

We have become aware a resource on our website has been flagged by a number of our followers. It was a document submitted to LAS for review but was deemed unsuitable in its current form and was never Board approved. It was uploaded in error & should have been removed more swiftly

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Gethin Chamberlain

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“Anti-transgender rights activists and transgender rights counter protestors at the Let Women Speak rally...” Er … surely the word you’re looking for there @edinburghpaper is “women”. There was a clue in the name of the event. #LetWomenSpeak

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Gethin Chamberlain

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@jk_rowling

Gethin Chamberlain

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5 months

Women have a right to gather peacefully in a public place to talk to each other about the challenges they face. They should not have to do so surrounded by a hostile mob of men facilitated by Police Scotland. No other situation would be policed this way. 🧵 #LetWomenSpeak

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Gethin Chamberlain

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Did the Mail have an agenda? They - and their readers - certainly didn’t like him or his politics. So they had an axe to grind. But the story itself was valid and chimed with the Mail’s editorial line. That’s not the same as The Establishment conspiring to shut Brand up.

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Gethin Chamberlain

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3 months

@DalgetySusan @MaggieChapman She does know that Baillie Gifford manages the Scottish Parliament pension fund, doesn’t she?

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

4 months

That a lot of the controversial things already existed isn’t the issue. Most people had no idea that there was a network of third party reporting centres (including the sex shop) where they could file an anonymous report against anyone, alleging a hate crime. Now they do.

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Gethin Chamberlain

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@jk_rowling @JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject There’s a wealth of guidance from experts on suicide avoidance cautioning against the type of hyperbolic language that he’s been using. This is a quick roundup of some of the main sources.

Gethin Chamberlain

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1 month

The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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@Jebadoo2 It’s at odds with all the advice on avoiding copycat suicides. Though if evidence of a surge in deaths existed, it would be in the public interest to publish. So where is it?

Gethin Chamberlain

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1 month

The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

11 months

The excellent investigation that’s now the subject of so much online bile faces similar questions. Why Brand? Why now? The simple answer is that he’s high-profile, those reporting it are happy with their evidence and celebrities taking advantage of fans is a valid story.

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

9 months

@staylorish Maybe not a scandal, but if you’re a minister in a government that introduces a complex law with complex rules designed to reduce the number of legitimate Scottish businesses like the one your own family runs, best not to get caught breaking that complex law’s complex rules.

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

5 months

If you want to know whether you are on a Police Scotland list, they have a form. And an email address where you can send it.

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Gethin Chamberlain

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@TheFamousArtBR

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1 month

The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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Gethin Chamberlain

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5 months

@kimwillsher1 @PoliceScotland No, you know what it’s like now so I just went to take a look for myself and recorded what I saw. As you know all too well we come across this sort of politicised policing from time to time in our jobs, but it shouldn’t be happening in Scotland and it isn’t healthy.

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Gethin Chamberlain

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1 year

Seems many people have no idea that Scottish holiday cottages and bed & breakfasts must have a licence from October 1. And that many are being refused or have just given up, unable or unwilling to deal with the complicated regulations.

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

1 year

How Edinburgh council decided to enter the hotel business and then set about closing down the competition 🧵

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

1 year

It’s extraordinary that this story is not generating more interest after the furore over other controversial Scottish Government legislation, including the failed #DRS recycling scheme and the ferries debacle.

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

5 months

@joannaccherry @WingsScotland Hard to think of any other public order scenario in which Police Scotland would have enabled this level of disruption, by aggressive men, against peaceful women.

Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

5 months

Women have a right to gather peacefully in a public place to talk to each other about the challenges they face. They should not have to do so surrounded by a hostile mob of men facilitated by Police Scotland. No other situation would be policed this way. 🧵 #LetWomenSpeak

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Gethin Chamberlain

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@JournalistJill Got blocked by Maugham for pointing out to him that there’s well-established guidance for the discussion of suicide that makes it very clear that he should not be presenting it as a solution to a problem. A quick summary:

Gethin Chamberlain

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1 month

The suggestion that children will kill themselves if denied puberty blockers would appear to be at odds with established good practice on avoiding imitational suicidal behaviour.🧵

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

3 months

@alexmassie They’re also involved in managing pension funds for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers. Loads of Scottish councils (from researching this last year). And a quick glance this evening suggests the same for England too. Turns out that life is complicated.

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Gethin Chamberlain

@newsandpics

1 year

On the same day in 2021 that Edinburgh council announced a crack down on holiday letting in the Scottish capital, plans were announced to turn its old Royal Mile headquarters into … luxury holiday lets. The council still owns the building. 🧵

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Gethin Chamberlain

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4 months

Now that everything is unequivocally nuts, here’s a red squirrel filmed in the Scottish Borders this morning showing how to deal with this situation. #NaturePhotography #redsquirrel

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