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Trish

@boboo52.bsky.social
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Homesick Scot. Live in England. Left-leaning. Catholic by surprise. LGBT+ ally. Love languages. Still European at heart.(I/Ise)

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sensational. Can’t believe it dropped just after I filed a column about her epic ridiculousness, though.
Kemi Badenoch describes herself as captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What has cutting taxes to do with the “soul of a nation”?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In Scotland the name “Badenoch” is often preceded by “Wolf of”. (Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, (1343 - 1405) - destroyed burgh of Elgin & its cathedral inter alia.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Better selling book about ADHD than Daily Mail!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfectly put.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tories rely heavily on English votes and there are 10x more of them than us. 🤮
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Och aye, that’ll be right!🤥🤥
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Scottish pensioners tell Andy Burnham 'don't hit us to pay for English care' www.thenational.scot/news/2660408... For more great content like this subscribe to the The National app here: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/
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Scottish pensioners tell Andy Burnham 'don't hit us to pay for English care'
PENSIONERS are calling on Andy Burnham to explain why he plans to “hit” them with changes to the triple lock.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Married an Englishman 41 years ago on what I thought was a temporary stay in England. Still Scots pro indyref2. Alba gu bràth!!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism
Detective Chief Superintendent James
Derham, who leads local policing in the
Bexley area, said: "It was miraculous
that nobody was killed or seriously
injured in the large explosion caused
by Rees


"He showed a complete disregard for
the welfare and safety of the people
who live in, or were travelling through,
the area at the time of the explosion -
all because he was unhappy with the
ULEZ scheme


"CCTV from a bus travelling down the
road at the time shows how it narrowly
missed the blast of debris by seconds
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hope they don't get on the boat to Stranraer!
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still confused why right wing in USA chose red when everyone else associates it with the left. "Keep the red flag flying here!"
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
jacobin.com/2026/10/cabl...
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The Battle of Cable Street Was an Antifascist Landmark
Ninety years ago this Sunday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End. It’s an important anniversary in a year when...
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hiroshima?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's like being a member of a posh golf club in USA. Status not ethics.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1968 revisited? but Macron is no de Gaulle
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just look at Trump! And ex-CEO of SE Water (10 days NO water last winter!)
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@owenjones.bsky.social Good book as usual. Usually agree with you (but a thrawn Scot never agrees 100% w anyone!)Have you seen "Nae Pasaran"? How E Kilbride workers refused to fix Chilean war plans under Pinochet's regime. (Thatcher's pal!)
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Potential for trouble on Garvaghy Rd is reported in “The National” & “The Guardian”. The English paper has to explain the background of “The Troubles”, the Scots one is more confident readers will know..
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thatcher’s legacy in part. We have long memories.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Up to their knees in Fenian blood”?And it’s not the dread “Marching Season”!
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Tommy Robinson” has an Irish passport so he’s still an EU citizen- AND I’M NOT! I’m a Scot & my country voted decidedly to remain..
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apparently there’s something called “The Kent Nationalist Movement” preparing trouble on south coast! L’Express did predict Brexit would transform Kent from “the garden of England” to « le parking d’Angleterre »but not the magnet for domestic terrorists. O tempora o mores..
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pope Leo at UNESCO in Paris: “Peace cannot be built solely with treaties, nor through compromises between opposing forces. Peace is true when it springs from the virtue of justice more than from a mere contract, from a righteous will rather than from an unstable balance of interests.”
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
However when I was applying for uni in 1969 (!) St Andrews already had a reputation for plethora of English private school students. Scots education has always been different- nothing to do with Holyrood!
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vice-principal of St Andrews Uni says they can’t admit many Scots, because Scottish Govt penalises it financially. C28% of students Scots) Background- some students feeling Scots accent +/- state school =“out-group”.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s a feeling of déjà vu. Never exactly the same but recognisable enough to those who take a long view (Confession I might say not that long ago for anything after 1900!)
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@mathewssonya.bsky.social Here’s tae us, wha’s like us? Damn few an’ they’re a’ deid mare’s the pity!
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Green Room Comedy @greenroomcomedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OK fine, but the jobless would like the Tories to stop gambling with the economy. Tories should be restricted to essentials: food, heating and one Union Jack per household. And after six months they should be moved to onto Universal Discredit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #jokes #scotland
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Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes
The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GLASGOW has gone full Elon Musk?? Now I know I’ve been transported to a parallel universe - “beam me up!”
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the sake of the entire planet I hope those predictions are reasonably accurate
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Truss didn’t benefit from her few years at a Scottish primary school - but then she learns ? only what suits her - and that changes..
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You’ve been interned. If Trump decides you don’t fit in..? He probably claims to be Christian but has ignored “motes & beams” in Matthew & Luke.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At least Belgium is still in EU. A narrow majority of English voters (larger population) dragged all UK out. Economy suffered of course & at the mercy of USA.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m even more disturbed as my daughter was a keen & skilful player from 7yo - 35. She knew she could always get round me if she wore her Scotland shirt! Ireland is ahead of UK on the moral implications..
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@johnharris1969.bsky.social It took a lot of work to persuade teachers that some children should be treated slightly differently. Schools came late in human history & childhood mortality was so commonplace that it’s not surprising neurodivergence wasn’t recognised.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was in response to an observable need. Couldn’t do it now. Uneasy about report chaired by psychoanalyst.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@johnharris1969.bsky.social Was junior in child psychiatry when Lorna Wing translated Asperger’s research. Years later as community paediatrician I realised there were more kids ?ASD than we could refer to tertiary services & no local CAHMS. Clinic was born, then for ADHD.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social I hope I’d still recognise you as Irish if I heard your voice. Working in England I had to modify my lexicon and syntax to some extent but my accent defeated the complex English class system- doctors see everyone.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social I was unable to find a German translation of “weasel words” which the lead up to and events of WWII (which I have studied in 4 languages) would have made me think useful.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact has been forgotten-and not only in former DDR.
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Trish @boboo52.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social Not only did “Tommy Robinson” support an ex-soldier facing prosecution for murder on Bloody Sunday but also held a bizarre protest on roof of FIFA HQ in Zúrich over some imaginary insult to England. Far-right- often w/o enough neurons to make synapse still dangerous
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems
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