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NHS Doctor (1983-2019). Aspiring Eco - Warrior/poet/singer-MDANT 🏅

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 8h
The support yesterday for the people of Garvaghy road, including those from a protestant & Unionist background in NI and from people around the globe, has been truly extraordinary. It really feels like it's time for NI to break free from colonial partition and re-join Ireland. quick 🧵
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10h
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 20h
Entirely possible
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There hasn't even been a vote on the hotly debated 'Zionism is racism' motion yet. That doesn't matter to the pro-Israel activists standing at the entrance. Anyone is fair game for abuse, writes Laura Webster ✍️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2660386...
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Reform MSP panned for 'utterly vile' praise of Benjamin Netanyahu at Holyrood
A Reform MSP has been condemned after she praised Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said the UK should work with the Israeli government ...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Err - I think that headline needs correction ( for goodness sake)
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Swinney to introduce misogyny education in every school in Scotland
The first minister says he wants to challenge misogynistic behaviour in young boys and strengthen and support young girls.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.psni.police.uk/latest-news/... 👀
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Statement from Chief Constable on Drumcree policing operation | PSNI
The Chief Constable Jon Boutcher along with Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson has offered to conduct a series of meetings today, Wednesday 30th September, with a number of organisations includi...
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An excellent thread on Peggie v RCN. That’s if you can stand the unhinged batshit from the GCs favourite barrister.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2659332...
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Fresh legal challenge as Orange Order stand-off enters fourth day
FURTHER talks are expected to take place as part of the latest bid to break the Drumcree parade stand-off, which has now entered a fourth day
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
According to the Mail ( I know) the latest twist in the RAF Fairford saga is that the multiple masked men running through the farmers fields in the middle of the night,were, in fact, the policemen who had been 999’d by one of the 5 subsequently arrested 🤷‍♀️🍿
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: John Swinney has responded after Andy Burnham took aim at him over claims he will be the 'last prime minister of the UK' The First Minister said Burnham should let Scotland 'have a referendum and we'll see who is right'
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@williemillersm1.bsky.social I stole the text of your meme for the title of my latest blog piece weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/h...
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Hopey change and changey hope: Burnham’s conference speech
Andy Burnham has given his first speech to the Labour party conference as Prime Minister. The speech was a whole lot of jam tomorrow, hopey change and changey hope. The only real difference from St…
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile in the US midterms
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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is brilliant. The whole thing should never have happened, there is zero need for those guys to go have an intimidation march on Garvaghy, but it did and remarkably, solidarity is winning.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Front page of The National
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Garvaghy Road and the Celtic Alliance bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/28/t...
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The Garvaghy Road and the Celtic Alliance
Two weeks ago, the leaders of Scotland, Ireland and Wales met in Cardiff to sign an accord and announce a ‘Celtic Alliance’ [If You’re Feeling Sinister – Bella Caledonia]. Today, 200 po…
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead
Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/politics/265...
thenational.scot
Labour must not be allowed to escape culpability on Gaza
‘I WANT to say to the millions of people in this country, and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian…
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the latest from Allison Morris who is a crime/politics/security specialist on the Belfast Telegraph
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Borrowed from X
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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
200 Police Scotland officers sent to Portadown. For what? I’ve written to Justice Secretary Neil Gray because I am seriously concerned about the decision to send 200 Scottish police officers to Portadown to support the policing operation around the Orange Order march down the Garvaghy Road. 1/8
The National article reporting questions over the deployment of around 200 Police Scotland officers to support policing around an Orange Order march in Portadown.Letter from Maggie Chapman MSP to Neil Gray MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, raising concerns about the deployment of Police Scotland officers to Portadown in connection with an Orange Order march along the Garvaghy Road.Second page of a letter from Maggie Chapman MSP to Neil Gray MSP, calling for answers about the deployment of Police Scotland officers to Portadown and requesting a review of the policing arrangements.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's remarkable to watch people on the left launch with gusto into a campaign to delegitimise and undermine trade unions, using lawfare and relentless media attacks, because they've been persuaded that hating trans people should be their top priority. The right must be rubbing their hands with glee.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2658578...
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Protesters disperse as fresh talks begin over Drumcree march
PROTESTERS who blockaded a road in Portadown to stop an Orange Order parade have mostly dispersed after being told by a community leader that a…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We didn’t only waste those two years: we pissed away the four preceding years watching them tell journalists they were building a new coalition of themselves, Reasonable Tories and racist pensioners via flag-fucking, crackdowns, belligerent war speeches and shouting abuse that their own supporters.
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It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2658561... This seems to me to have been an utterly manipulated situation with entirely predictable consequences: 3 separate legal challenges at 2am! Come on 🤨
thenational.scot
Orange Lodge members refused permission to march as stand-off continues
A STAND-OFF in Northern Ireland has continued through the day and into the evening, with Orangemen waiting at Drumcree Church around a mile from the…
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW: The Scottish Government has been urged to review a policing agreement that saw Police Scotland officers deployed to Northern Ireland to support policing around a sectarian march
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Questions raised after Police Scotland officers deployed to Drumcree march
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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Dark day back home, lads. Drumcree standoff in 2026 wasn't on my predictions for this year. Wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years from now, this is seen as one of the cascading moments that led to the end of Northern Ireland.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/politics/265... Really interesting commentary
thenational.scot
1984 is not ‘more relevant than ever’ – its nightmares differ from ours
IS the story of George Orwell’s 1984 “more relevant than ever before” in 2026?
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The supposed party of the working class when they restrict their women’s conference to the most privileged women only and nobody shows up: 😯
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worth reading especially as the press seem to have taken to selective reporting on this case
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was just writing up my rambles about the Sandie Peggie RCN case so far for a pal who is using it for a case study. He is married to a nurse. "RCN members are having to use foodbanks, fucking FOODBANKS and she wants their union subs to pay for her KC?!"
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@heraldscotland.bsky.social Am I correct that there is no ‘Live’ coverage of the Peggie V RCN tribunal today? Peggie’s team were reprimanded yesterday for their witness for today not being available and so the RCN witness is giving evidence today instead and there is no/different coverage? Bit odd🤔
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2657885... Perhaps next time the press/Scottish politicians get in a lather about ‘transparency’ they can reflect on this report ‘suppressed’ by Kier Starmer’s government
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Damming climate report on coming El Nino suppressed under Keir Starmer shared by UK
A DAMMING report that shows the climate emergency and the coming El Nino threaten countries around the world’s national security and defence,…
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Getting the distinct feeling that the media and her previous cheerleaders are distancing themselves from this situation as the connections with agendas are spelled out but the trusty photographer ( Iain Masterton) is on hand - who pays him one wonders 🤔
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026
A caution! A fucking caution! Take yourself out tonight, grab a stranger and beat them with a metal stick in front of the police. Get a relative to report back tomorrow what happened after that...
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is Edinburgh University a Scottish University at all? fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/is-edinbur...
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Is Edinburgh University a Scottish University at all?
The announcement of cuts at Edinburgh University supports the argument that some of our fundamental institutions are not our own.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2656562... Aye right
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gym Etiquette, Ed Sheeran and the Zone of Interest fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/gym-etique...
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Gym Etiquette, Ed Sheeran and the Zone of Interest
Everything’s Fine
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026
It looks like the EU is seriously preparing for an attack by Russia. A lot of senior defense officials came out of briefings spooked. Since then, various governments including the Swiss! have issued defiant statements.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A must read 🧵
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Ukraine war briefing: Poland’s Tusk heads to Kyiv after warning of Russian strikes on Ukrainian allies
Donald Tusk says Moscow will not enter peace talks without Ukraine’s ‘total capitulation’ and will try to inflict a ‘tragically critical’ winter. What we know on day 1,668
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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once again: Burnham, why aren’t you DOING SOMETHING? For the love of god, do SOMETHING.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655977... Cancelled 24 hours after tickets went on sale citing low sales as a cause- eh?🤨 something doesn’t add up
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Elfingrove Christmas spectacular cancelled despite £2m festive overhaul
A family Christmas event in Glasgow set to return after four years, following a £ 2 million investment, has been cancelled.
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