The Mess We're In : The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
The Mess We're In
The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either.
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Alex Massie
@alexmassie.bsky.social
Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms.
It hasn’t rained for a month. Which means it is time, once again, for ‘Scotland’, by Alastair Reid.
The ruling determines what the law IS and, indeed, what it has always BEEN.
This "people will kill themselves" blackmail is increasingly popular (now seen in multiple policy areas) and utterly disgraceful.
Cerys Turner@cerysturner.bsky.social · last yr.A further blow to Ofsted’s school card plans this morning: Education leaders, teachers, former HMI & Professor Julia Waters, sister of headteacher Ruth Perry, have written to the SoS to urge her to delay the proposals, or risk “further, preventable deaths”. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
This is madness. No way we can trust Ohio State with nuclear weapons.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · last yr.where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president
This is extraordinary given the ideological diversity of the participants.
Ilya Somin@ilyasomin.bsky.social · last yr.Check out Free Press symposium on "Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law?" Participants are: @lessig.bsky.social, Ed Whelan, Andrew McCarthy, @jadler1969.bsky.social, Aziz Huq, Michael McConnell & me. Note very high degree of agreement, despite huge ideological differences. www.thefp.com/p/is-donald-...
Five days after FWS vs Scottish ministers & far too many people still need to be reminded that the govt position was that quotas for women could be filled by men. How can that be anything other than marginalising, downgrading, even erasing, women?
as soon as someone attributes an opinion/ attitude to an entire jurisdiction (the people of this town “cherish their way of life”) you can stop reading
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
Longstanding peeve: I do wish people citing Teddy Roosevelt like this understood that “bully” in “bully pulpit” means “very good”.
Andy King@2primates.bsky.social · last yr.Your opinion is of supreme irrelevance. Don’t let your bully pulpit kid you into imagining that you matter.* *if you think that’s rude or harsh, try being trans for a day, then reflect back on your own smug dismissal of other people’s lives.
Interesting, perhaps, but of zero legal or statutory relevance. However expert, the views of a policy official about what a law is ‘intended’ to be are as nothing when set beside the ruling of judges who determine what it actually *is*.
Severin Carrell@severincarrell.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: Supreme court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant who helped write the act - me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social 👇👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A question of supreme irrelevance. The court’s job is to rule on the law, not to rule with a mind to how their ruling will be interpreted by others. This should not be a difficult thing to understand.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · last yr.How did the Supreme Court imagine this ruling would be taken?
This would be a great argument if sex and race were analogous. But they ain’t!
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.The concept of "sex-based rights" is one of the most insane things I've ever seen. You do not gain rights based on which sex you belong too. If you believe in equality, no sex is entitled to more rights than any other. We don't have "race-based rights" either. That would be apartheid.
Sex is immutable. Sex is not the same as gender. This is only difficult to understand if you prefer to believe birth certificates are some kind of random sorting hat.
Very good job here: News Editor for The Times & The Sunday Times in Scotland. (One downside: the successful applicant will from time to time have to deal with me.) www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/38...
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An era of magical thinking comes to an end and vindication is a dish to be enjoyed at any temperature. So three cheers for the ladies of For Women Scotland. www.thetimes.com/article/d5f2...
The hateful and bigoted bag ladies have been proved right on sex
Politicians at Holyrood and Westminster owe women’s rights campaigners an apology after victory in their campaign to define what a woman is
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An era of magical thinking comes to an end and vindication is a dish to be enjoyed at any temperature. So three cheers for the ladies of For Women Scotland. www.thetimes.com/article/d5f2...
The hateful and bigoted bag ladies have been proved right on sex
Politicians at Holyrood and Westminster owe women’s rights campaigners an apology after victory in their campaign to define what a woman is
thetimes.com
Very good job here: News Editor for The Times & The Sunday Times in Scotland. (One downside: the successful applicant will from time to time have to deal with me.) www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/38...
News Editor, Scotland | News UK
The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a p...
newscareers.co.uk
One shouldn't laugh but actually it's fine to laugh.
Barbara Rich@barbararich.bsky.social · last yr.A somewhat clouded crystal ball here …
It is a considerable sadness that HL Mencken is not around to write about this.
Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬@kayaburgess.bsky.social · last yr.As both Science Reporter + Religious Affairs Correspondent at @thetimes.com, it really had to be me who wrote this story: Bottles of holy water contaminated with a cholera superbug were brought to UK from a sacred well in Ethiopia and led to hospitalisations: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...