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Andrew Adam

@andrewadam.bsky.social
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He/him, pragmatic radical. Opinions my own, likes ≠ endorsements. Scottish Greens candidate for Mid Scotland & Fife, 2026. Promoted by Pete Morrison on behalf of Andrew Adam, both c/o Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the benefit of those coming to this fresh, the action taken is far more than this statement - the unions refused to send delegates to the Labour Women's Conference on Saturday because it was trans exclusive, leading to the Women and Equality Minister giving a keynote to a largely empty hall.
Labour Women's Conference, 26 September 2026. Bridget Phillipson delivers her keynote address to a largely empty hall. The vast majority of seats visible in this shot taken from the seating area are empty.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh FFS. I identify as they/them. I also recognise how I look and understand when people make a mistake. Most trans and non-binary individuals I know are fine with people asking in good faith. It's genuinely more inclusive to default to neutral initially and doesn't need people getting het up about.
Telegraph headline: He’ and ‘she’ are not inclusive terms, says council
Spelthorne borough in Surrey asks staff to use ‘them/they’ to make people feel ‘welcome, seen, heard and respected’
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today, Alison Ann-Dowling, a Scottish Labour councillor who is a member of the party's ruling body the SEC, together with fellow Scottish Labour Women's Declaration activist Norma Austin Hart, will take their trade union, Community, to court to try to overturn its trans-inclusive policy.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 18/09/2026
The far right are scum and it should be a slam dunk for any government minister to jump on this and describe them this way.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.
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Holly Bruce MSP @hollybruce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Honestly, I’m tired. So many of us are just tired. To everyone who is dedicating their time to make life safer for women and girls, we owe you a great deal.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/09/2026
The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
leftfootforward.org
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026
will say, as an actual cyclist, that yes, sure, sometimes it really is just easier to go on the pavement for a stretch, but if you do it while going slowly and apologising to the pedestrians you encounter then no one will hate you, "basic manners" does kind of seem to be the issue here, again
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is why I think the retelling of accurate history is so important. Self ID was dropped by the Tories in 2020 and then Labour in 2023, which was around the time Stonewall was starting to quiet down too.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
By extension, attacking actual refugees would have been "rightly targeted". Labour, there.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The snobbishness about this comes in part from the fact you can no longer pay all your bills doing a minimum wage job. If you work 35hrs a week you should be able to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & have a little left over for a few beers on a Friday. This never used to be a controversial view.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Genuinely gasped. This is why leaving Nandy in post is such obvious vandalism, the BBC does not deserve to survive like this.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Seeing lots of people pronouncing the latest actions of the UK far right (Dover, Portsmouth, Glasgow) as indicating that we are now doomed to a fascist future. I could not disagree more. The feeling of this being a broken country is exactly what the far right seeks to create. But we CAN push back.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 06/09/2026
Several large far-right orgs across the UK will be looking at the events from this weekend and thinking "good practice run, folks, pretty clear we can do whatever we like now with no consequences - what's next?"
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/09/2026
Dover is one of the most heavily policed places in the UK. It's a two hour's drive from London, where the Met has more significant anti-crowd capacity than any other force in the UK. Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made One they don't make for peaceful protest
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is scary stuff. People will be taken in by this. It's the sort of disinformation that foments riots. The perpetrators need to be found, and I'd lay odds they live somewhere near Moscow.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Medical Advice
How to survive the global heatwave 
Stay hydrated 
Treat yourself to an ice cream 
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class
Loose fitting clothing
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/08/2026
wrote about that ADHD documentary, my own life as someone apparently living the perfect life of the unmedicated ADHD poster child, and why no amount of "oh but the system should change, not the people" doesn't work: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 17/08/2026
Scottish Labour's core of remaining progressives - when is enough enough? When do you have to accept that your party is simply too far gone?
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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Both of the nominated Scottish Labour leadership candidates oppose trans rights. Due to the deliberate actions of gender critical Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs, Monica Lennon, who supports trans rights, was kept off the ballot. We must add August 17th 2026 to the list of shameful days in our party.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This whole thread is well worth a read. My sincere commiserations to Monica, who is kinder and more circumspect than I would have been in her place.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 14/08/2026
If we had anti-SLAPP laws, it would have been a THE and inside the paper broadsheet story and little more. If we had Leveson 2, none of this would have got so far
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 13/08/2026
Dunno if people have noticed but the discrimination module of the Scottish Social Attitudes survey was released last month:
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026
Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.
A table of top temperatures so far. The highest currently at 37.6°C at Charlwood.
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Mags @magnumificent.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
But it would mean fewer preventable fires. Fewer children and adults suffering horrific burns. Less damage to parks, beaches and countryside. Less litter and single-use waste. And fewer flimsy trays of red-hot charcoal being sold for a few quid with virtually no ground clearance.
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Andrew Adam @andrewadam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wholly unseasonal, but I don't care, every second made me laugh
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges"
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
During the interview, I categorically stated that rape in every context is equally serious and harmful. This section of the interview was maliciously left out — with the rest being misrepresented and widely shared out of context, despite my repeated clarifications.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 10/08/2026
The coordinated assault, weaponising a racists' libellous misrepresentation of one of the UK's first trans parliamentarian's comments, joined by Scottish politicians and media en-masse, is the most disgusted I have ever been by the state of Scottish politics. Utterly vile, a disgrace to the country
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