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Jeane Freeman

@jeanef1.bsky.social
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Dean of Strategic Economic Engagement @ University of Glasgow & Hon Professor @ QMU. Former Scottish Government Health Secretary. Politics, books, health policy and ideas. Views my own.

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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Or the gentle kindness that walks with you….
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
No cup of tea is better than the one served right now in these wee small hours 🙏
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Not cool not clever and not grown up. Please please put the sunglasses away.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A Scottish island has been missed off a map of the UK in a new document compiled by GB Energy
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'Staggering but not surprising': Scottish island omitted from GB Energy's UK map
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Is it me or is it actually ridiculous that we, the consumer are to pay for infrastructure upgrade and higher bills. Where are the energy companies putting their hands in their very full pockets?
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Kaukab Stewart @kaukabstewart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It doesn't matter what language you speak at home, or on your first day at school - if you live in Glasgow, Glasgow is your home. Farage and co think multilingualism is somehow a bad thing. I know, firsthand, that it's a strength.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Does anyone actually know what Keir Starmer thinks about Brexit? My view hasn’t changed: Brexit is a disaster, Scotland belongs in Europe, so let’s become independent and join the EU with our own seat at the table.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
When did we become a country that refuses to hear, or read, or discuss different views? Was that not the essence of the Enlightenment from which we and very many others worldwide gained so much?
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"The white paper’s boldest proposal is to cut the social care visa. Yet the social care visa has strong public support: with only just over 1 in 5 people supporting reductions to this route." @heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper ukandeu.ac.uk/the_immigrat...
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The immigration white paper misjudges the public’s priorities - UK in a changing Europe
Heather Rolfe analyses public opinion on the UK government's white paper on immigration. She argues that while much of the public is in favour of reducing migration, the content and language of the wh...
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
👇. Absolutely
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What more do we need to know Scotland needs to be able to determine our own immigration policy?
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“..an island of strangers” - Starmer. What utter shameful nonsense. Playing the right wing dog whistle has to be a new low from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So this morning a political podcast was rec and I’m sure it’ll be worth listening to. But it struck me - the majority of pol podcasts are all male and all are Westminster centric. Scot cast and Welsh cast exempt. What an internal gazing thing they are when we have 4 nations.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Angels Raynor on BBC news justifying Ministers taking freebies as ok cos it’s ’in the rules’. Utterly tone deaf just like the Tories were.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A day of infamy in Washington open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
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A day of infamy in Washington
The old world perishes and with it dies the American Idea.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12/02/2025
NEW: The Trump administration asks a federal judge for emergency permission to suspend funding to the FEMA shelter program that Elon Musk posted lies about storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DEFENDANTS' EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A RULING BY 11 A.M. ON FEBRUARY 12, 2025, FOR PERMISSION TO CONTINUE WITHHOLDING FEMA AND OTHER FUNDING
On January 31, 2025, this Court entered a Temporary Restraining Order
(TRO) that provided certain relief against the temporary pause of funding announced in OMB Memorandum M-25-13, but still allowed Defendants to pause funding "on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms," provided they "comply with all notice and procedural requirements in the award, agreement, or other instrument relating to decisions to stop, delay, or
otherwise withhold federal financial assistance programs." ECF No. 50 at 12.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law. Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One family of 6 from Gaza make it through the tortuous UK system designed to prevent entry alongside the boastful filming and promotion of hounding folk onto planes - I expect the Tories to play to xenophobia but Labour? Shameful ditching of values many, many fought for and died for.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
These are dangerous times. The casual bargaining over another country’s sovereignty be it Gaza, Ukraine or Greenland, apparently unchallenged by senior politicians or the media is deeply troubling. We can’t normalise this. We just can’t.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#HolocaustMemorialDay
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Returning from a quick supermarket shop can I just thank all the shop workers for your patience in not reminding us you’re only closed for 1 day?! 🙏
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Oh dear, turns out BlueSky can be as nasty and toxic as the other one….
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Beautiful Argyll sky as we make our way home….
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
WASPI women betrayed, 2child cap retained and now the few pensioners who are still eligible for winter fuel payment face delays. What is Labour’s problem with older people and women? Oh, and keeping promises captured forever in those pesky photo opps….
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Alongside broken promises on the 2 child cap, Labour turns its back on WASPI women now the photo ops aren’t needed. In both sets of broken promises, women suffer. They should be utterly ashamed.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Even on a cold December day, our bush gives us some glorious colour
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/12/2024
Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human
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Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human
Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics Keir Starmer’s people don’t like the word “relaunch”, but that’s what it is. On Thursday, the prime minister will give a…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Prominent people in the U.K. still shilling for Trump: are they still high on the fumes inhaled when they kissed his ring or do they actually approve/not care of the sex offending, coup attempt & criminality? Or both, I suppose. I’m so naive/stupid I honestly thought they’d all abandon him on Jan 6…
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
‘How much for the Coronation?! The Royals aren’t parasites, they’re vampires’ My Friday night newsletter www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And here are our girls, Scout and Rosa…
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yes! At last. #scotnationalteam ⚽️
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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Just blocked for the first time on this site. Sorry, but pretty sure most people came here to get away from the tedious , factually bereft assertions & accusations of obsessives. Fare forward , to quote Walt Whitman
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
At last, a clear autumn sky and a sunset!!
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Cuddle time…
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
www.facebook.com/share/p/1KRF...
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Jeane Freeman @jeanef1.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
November gloom but this brightens the day…
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Very good piece below
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