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

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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14m
Are you suggesting I apply ? Pretty sure I’d be vetted out as I have criticised some of the current Scottish commissioners for their lack of impartiality but Thank you
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 1h
My latest blog piece - Pulling focus, Burnham and Badenoch's transparent attempts to distract attention from the SNP conference reveals how scared they are of the Celtic Alliance and rising support for Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/p...
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Pulling Focus
It’s a sign of how spooked they are by the Celtic Alliance and the question of Scottish independence that just won’t go away that both Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch decided to pay visi…
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 19h
Anyone in mind? By ‘clout’ do you mean legal clout or journalistic clout? Probably best not to ask a politician right enough
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 20h
That sounds delightful. We have a wee cottage in very rural Argyll-and go for bat/hare/owl walks regularly- the spooky stories theme sounds great- will look that story up .
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The Blocked Road to the Hospital Ward missfredawallace.substack.com/p/the-blocke...
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The Blocked Road to the Hospital Ward
How a campaign funded by J. K. Rowling helped reshape British equality law — and how transgender people came to find themselves on the wrong side of a hospital door.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 22h
www.thenational.scot/news/2664167... This is kinda weird- “80 or so members’ a ‘group’ supposedly supported by 50 branches - unnamed - some of those on stage not even SNP members 🤨
thenational.scot
'Don't fear us': Inside the launch of the SNP's new independence pressure group
AN SNP splinter group, an internal pressure group, a simple forum for discussion?
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 23h
They punted out this article 5x on BS/6 x on X within 24 hours. I believe it’s rage bait for his wee curated clique of misogynistic commentators. I previously unsubscribed because of him and re subscribed because of the one or two really good journalists left but I’m certainly considering dumping it
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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Signed copies of @elifshafak.bsky.social 's achingly gorgeous In One Brief Moment All Eternity from @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social , with Jack's rather fabulous Phoenix window painting. #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres
Holding up a signed hardback of In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop Front window of the Edinburgh Bookshop, with a colourful phoenix painted on it for the release of In One Brief Moment All Eternity A close up of the phoenix painted on the bookshop window
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 23h
www.thenational.scot/news/2664313... And defends Sally Rooney too
thenational.scot
Wife of Andy Burnham's top aide backs Palestine Action in shock intervention
THE wife of Andy Burnham’s top national security adviser has backed Palestine Action.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Hope so- but there is no shortage of grifters wanting their spot in the limelight. As an NhS doctor and recent patient I cannot imagine that NHS staff are comfortable with this ruling at all.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Also this : Rowling offering to fund legal cases against the NHS if someone objects to a trans person in the ‘wrong’ ward/toilet/changing room etc
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Noticed the Herald (on here!)has promoted McKenna’s - the GC’s favourite- rant 5 times in 24 hours (6 times on X) when every other journalist on there gets their article pushed once. That seems very deliberate- looks like time to cancel my subscription again.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"I had to stay with my Mum in an emergency ward because my mum might have been scared by a trans person being there, who may or may not have actually been trans." Is the sort of moral panic logic that should be inexcusable from our elected officials, actually.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
A great triumph for them and really, this is the essence of wingnuttery: give them everything they want and more, again and again, and it only makes them even angrier, now from a position of greater clout to demand more and nastier.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
How tragic,I only knew her online but we seemed to share views on most things. Condolences to everyone who loved her.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ahh ok, good call- I hadn’t looked sigh- another one
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yeah, you’re right
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Meanwhile the publisher and contributor to WWWW is wondering why there wasn’t a documentary about them first especially after their battle with SNL ended in an apology from the library.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey did a two part podcast on what has been happening using only published direct interviews and Twitter quotes- I wonder if they’ve been challenged legally or not. But I do think nobody is happy about it.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Seems to me that everybody is upset by the prospect of that documentary: her lawyers have removed you-tube archives,her acolytes/those dependent on her status are assuming it’s a ‘hit job’, trans people are horrified and her friends are,so far silent.But,the new HP has prime time Xmas Day slot so 🤷‍♀️
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We never did find out why that Putin meeting with Trump in Alaska went from red carpet lunch to ashen faced Trump cancelling everything but I suspect your picture sums it up nicely
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Will the loyalist thugs in Northern Ireland now riot in the streets and burn down DUP headquarters?
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Donaldson: Former DUP leader sentenced to 15 years for child sex abuse convictions
Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted of 18 counts of sex abuse, including one of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
She ( Eve) was appointed just 3 weeks ago. someone on here had stated she had a dim view of the SNP ( sorry can’t find that quote) but this is not looking good. I quite liked Libby Brooks writing who was at least based in Glasgow .
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been jailed for FIFTEEN YEARS for 18 counts of sex abuse. Donaldson was leader of the hardline unionist DUP for three years & was a key player in the endless Brexit negotiations. A spectacular downfall for someone who dared to lecture others on morals.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2663817...
thenational.scot
Reform UK figures quit after being filmed using racist and sexist language
Reform UK are facing intense backlash after an undercover ITV News investigation found councillors and candidates within the party had used racist and sexist language
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Following the ITV documentary where Reform councillors and campaigners made hateful racist, misogynistic, and sexist remarks, the Reform racism thread has been updated. This party harbours racists from top to bottom. #ReformRacism
Alan Feeney, Solihull councillor and subsequently deputy mayor: called Asian families "absolute parasites", said Britain's population should be no more than 1% non-white, and discussed forcibly removing people to Pakistan.

Chris Whelan, elected in Solihull in May: described sexually assaulting a female Reform candidate if she hugged him. He also made sexual remarks about another female candidate framed as though she were his daughter.

Dean Miller, Bromley councillor: described black children as "animals" and called for King Charles to be beheaded, claiming he was secretly Muslim.

Raymond Dunning, Tameside councillor: proposed training young men in

military insurgency tactics to round up migrants house by house, explicitly including some legal migrants.

Jamie Campbell, elected in Solihull in May: suggested burying pork chops on land to prevent a mosque being built.

Adam Parkins, Hounslow councillor: said uncomfortable policies should be implemented without announcing them: "We just need to get f**** elected, that's all that really matters."**
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Read this please 🙏
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Exactly, at the same time as the Rape Crises Services throughout Scotland and Glasgow in particular are desperate for funding.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/10/2026
If pervert glasses are a problem in Westminster, they're a problem everywhere. www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster
Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2663618... With all that’s going on in the world: 23 million required which is currently ‘unfunded’+ £200,000 for implementation team and the local authority received 25! responses to the draft policy 🙄
heraldscotland.com
Council plans £23.5m hygiene facilities overhaul after EHRC single-sex guidance
According to the local authority, improvements to the public hygiene facilities could cost as much as £23.5 million in capital funding over a ten-year span.
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It seems making people ashamed to vote for Reform works much better than appeasing people who vote for Reform. Who knew?
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absolutely nobody seems happy with this proposed: her acolytes, friends, herself(whose lawyers have removed archival footage off you-tube)and trans folk seem horrified. But one of the ‘oddest’ takes is the ‘WWWW’ publisher who is surprised that there isn’t a documentary about them first 🤷‍♀️
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Further to my reply -here is the photo of LGBAlliance/Sex Matters /K Stock and various others meeting her 13/2/24 before her report was completed.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
She was the one who intervened in the passage of Scotlands GRR bill, which was uniquely section 35’d by the SOS Scotland helping pave the way for the FWS SC case. Also met with a range of prominent GC voices on her last visit to UK prior to completing her report.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A must read- interesting to see all the ‘Battle of Ideas ‘ crossover too
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They could start by listening to the 2 part podcast that @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social made recently,which relied on her many verifiable tweets and replies.The majority of people are not on/left X and have no idea.They timing when BCC Scotland is getting is axed interesting 🤔
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2663111... 😏
thenational.scot
SNP invite Andy Burnham to party conference to 'agree legal process for indyref2'
THE SNP have invited Prime Minister Andy Burnham to visit their party conference amid reports he will visit Scotland on Friday ...
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2663045... My instinct that there are various attempts to sabotage the SNP conference are not going away: I’ve never seen such controversy from various channels ( Burnham/SPUC- litigation threatened/Scottish Greens invitation/non SNP Independence ‘grassroot groups’ etc etc
thenational.scot
Andy Burnham to visit Scotland during middle of SNP conference
Andy Burnham is set to visit Scotland in the middle of the SNP's party conference this week, according to reports
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Correct, and using information garnered that way in recent court cases too. ( Peggie v RCN ) for example and therefore being plastered all over a willing press.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Noticed the ‘feminists’ and columnist sneering at it on X and getting blatant racist and sexist posts back in return to which they don’t bat an eyelid and yet they hold themselves up to be the good ones 🤷‍♀️
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The sneering from ‘feminist’ columnists and replies to that on X to the ‘Reclaim the Night’ protest last night in Glasgow is really something. I’ve no doubt some of the usual suspects will be adding their tuppence today- trying to redirect the narrative
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
October 12, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 12, 2026
Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans.
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siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... 😭
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Fire destroys Marché des Enfants Rouges, ‘coolest market in Paris’
‘A lot of sadness’ after 17th century landmark that escaped demolition in the 1980s goes up in flames
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/10/2026
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