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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now with ALT text - I made it to the opening night of Design and Disability @vadundee.bsky.social last week; planning to write about it for the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter. Let me know your thoughts on in/accessibility below or first.edition@theguardian.com

Photo of entrance to Design and Disability exhibition

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I made it to the opening night of Design and Disability @vadundee.bsky.social last week; planning to write about it for the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter. Let me know your thoughts on in/accessibility below or first.edition@theguardian.com

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The new Holyrood cohort begins by voting for its presiding officer - choosing the SNP’s Kenny Gibson, a candidate many hope will not only keep charge of a potentially fractious chamber but stand up for members in dealings with the parliament administration

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Public service post: spring dog joy

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Declaring now in Glasgow: SNP hold for Easterhouse and Springburn for Ivan McKee: he thanks voters ‘for rejecting those who seek to divide our communities’

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Zack Polanski speaks to Scottish Green supporters in Glasgow this evening. Immediately indicates he’s understood the assignment : “Scotland has been screwed over by the Westminster government for a long time” he tells the whooping crowd

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It might just possibly finally be spring in Glasgow….

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’m here in Glasgow for the SNP’s manifesto launch. Naturally I’ll be asking detailed questions about policy, costings and the rest but really I just want to know if John Swinney’s going to make his ‘oh!’ face again. Iykyk

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Watching the second of this Holyrood election campaign’s leaders’ debates, tonight on Channel 4, and the dog has already made her position clear

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Meanwhile Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says he’s the only leader bringing Scots together while both SNP and Reform seek to divide

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Busy morning at Scottish parties launch their campaigns for May’s Holyrood elections - SNP leader John Swinney told supporters that the country needs “a fresh start with independence”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

SNP candidates gather at the party’s campaign conference ahead of May’s Scottish parliament elections - the Holyrood group is losing some of its most distinguished performers this year, many of them women

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Setting out his “vision for Scotland”, Reform UK’s new leader north of the border quotes Deacon Blue’s classic song Dignity as encapsulating the Scottish work ethic… looking forward to Ricky Ross’s thoughts on this

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

John Swinney is the first of three party leaders speaking to supporters this morning as Scottish politics gets set for Holyrood elections in May, which will be a measure of how successful Reform has been in building support in Scotland and a likely test of Kier Starmer’s leadership

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Sandie Peggie’s lawyer confirms she will be appealing the “highly problematic” tribunal decision - Peggie herself says “I won’t be giving up the fight anytime soon”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

SNP leader John Swinney launching ‘It’s Scotland’s energy’ campaign - after screening a new film contrasting how Norway & UK managed their oil wealth, he says only voting for independence in next May’s Holyrood elections will ensure the country benefits from renewable energy resources

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m at the Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk ahead of the Reform UK rally happening nearby later. Anti-immigrant protesters are already gathering - one group of women say the mood in the town is ‘sadder and angrier’ since a hotel resident appeared in court on sexual assault charges earlier this week

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This story landed just as I had completed my own - far less complicated - bunnet project

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Panel of MSPs questioned by young people at the Just Transition Summit in Edinburgh this afternoon: how do you challenge misinformation about energy transition?

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

FM John Swinney speaking at @ipprscotland.bsky.social 10th anniversary conference in Edinburgh: argues that after a pattern of undermining devolution by Westminster “our parliament is not strong enough to protect us from a UK government led by Nigel Farage”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Family of Sheku Bayoh respond to resignation of Lord Bracadale, chair of inquiry into his death in custody - they describe the pressure put on the chair by police and crown as “final act of sabotage”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Delighted to take part in @jrf-uk.bsky.social @savethechildren.org fringe at #SNP25 on how third sector, politicians & media need to tell a different story about child poverty as far right narratives and misinformation capture public attention

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

SNP delegates assembling in Aberdeen for the key debate of conference: winning independence. Will they support the leadership’s motion or a rebel amendment?

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Beyond the hot takes and hatchet jobs: I returned to Lochee a month after Musk and Robinson spread misinformation about the Dundee district www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Meanwhile the flag sellers are coining it

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Tense scenes in Glasgow city centre right now as hundreds of anti immigration protesters gather at the top of Buchanan Street, with counter protesters from trade unions and other anti racist groups massing further down the precinct

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Anti immigration and anti racist demonstrators gathered outside an asylum hotel in Falkirk this afternoon

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Anas Sarwar speech in Glasgow this morning: Scottish Labour leader jokes about SNP politicians with ‘tell-nothing memoirs’ and says SNP’s ‘noisy minority’ is holding back Scottish ambition

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

For followers who think ‘raising the colours’ hasn’t reached Scotland - this is Glasgow’s Maryhill Road with (albeit very rain-soaked) flags on every lamppost

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay speaking in Glasgow this morning ahead of MSPs returning to Holyrood, which he says has become “irrelevant to most Scots” and “fixates on fringe issues the majority don’t care about”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Never mind the day job: just got sent a press release for a new horror movie told from the perspective of a DOG

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Looking forward to starting this at the weekend, the latest in Birlinn Books’ brilliant Darkland Tales series

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

View of those “ugly windmills” that so irritate Donald Trump from Balmedie beach on Tuesday morning

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Protesters at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, to greet Trump when he lands here later this afternoon

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Here at Turnberry, where the story so far is of a sweeping police presence, high fencing and some inconvenienced dog walkers ahead of Trump’s arrival later today. Fun fact: a bird watcher tells me there’s another North American visitor, the Western Sandpiper, on the coast today

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Kemi Badenoch speaking at Scottish Conservative conference in Edinburgh: “We have seen Scotland decline under left wing parties that stoke division & the politics of envy”

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Nigel Farage has not appeared in public in Hamilton as planned but there’s an ugly confrontation between protestors outside the Reform UK office

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and byelection candidate Davy Russell kick off a busy day of campaigning in Larkhall

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What an underrated skill it is to maintain interview focus whilst go-karts roar by you - Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in Larkhall this morning, campaigning in the key Hamilton byelection where Reform are hoping to make significant gains

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Spent the day around the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse where a key Holyrood byelection is taking place on June 5. Struck by how much chat there is about Reform support, despite fact that Farage himself remains so unpopular north of the border

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Fantastic afternoon at @edinbrick.bsky.social - an all ages celebration of Lego-related creativity & appreciation

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Applications for the third year of the Women in Journalism Scotland bursary programme with @jrf_uk are now open Five women journalists will each be awarded £1,500 to develop a project shining a light on economic and / or social inequalities around Scotland Apply here: surl.li/sfmeee

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“But wait!” exclaims everyone, “Surely they should have included a photo of your dog?” THAT’S WHAT I TOLD THE EDITOR But Breagha is feeling relaxed about the whole thing

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This Scotland on Sunday splash makes me desperately sad. That kids are being denied basic information about their own bodies and the opportunity to explore crucial concepts like consent is something that should give all of us adults pause….

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New ad from the Scottish Tories, coincidentally a few days after their only out LGBT+ MSP quits the party. Genuinely interested in what focus grouping says about this style of messaging

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Fascinating evening in Dundee with @thecourier.co.uk hearing about their new brand strategy ‘local stories make us’ and how local reporting can unite communities at a time when trust in mainstream news outlets has never been lower

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