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Vicky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@vickymummyrc.bsky.social
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Left leaning, pro choice, humanitarian. Scottish Independence, Brexit hating. I’m quite a boring person, cats and crochet. She/her

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This one stopped me short.
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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK Government Treasury slight of hand where funds for English Personal Care are allocated from what will be another fiscal reduction in the Scottish Barnett Funding. It will result in Scottish pensioners contributing to a care package in England that they already get in Scotland with the Triple Lock
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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Burnham's English Personal Care Plan. It will be partly funded by scrapping the pension triple lock. This includes Scottish pensioners who already have a Personal Care Plan. On the face of it Scotland would get the appropriate Barnett fund adjustment. But! - 1/
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dáibhí The Spooky Pumpkin 🎃 @daibhi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Who took this pic, Brooklyn Beckham?
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
I am glad that Scotland's leadership clearly articulated that our nation has a positive and forward-looking civic nationalism, where the key point to being a Scot is: 'do you live here? Aye? Then you are welcome to say you are from here.' www.thenational.scot/news/1817406...
Excerpt from The National Newspaper article's about Nicola Sturgeon's 20th of January 2020 speech to foreign nationals:

Addressing a conference room full of EU nationals, Sturgeon went on: “This event today gives me the opportunity to say again to every single person from another country, from Europe or further afield, who has chosen to come and live in Scotland: Thank you. Excerpt from The National Newspaper article's about Nicola Sturgeon's 20th of January 2020 speech to foreign nationals:

“Thank you for doing us the honour of choosing Scotland as your home. Thank you for the contribution you make to creating the country we live in today. And to say very clearly, unequivocally and as loudly as I possibly can: You are welcome here. This is your home. It is as much your home as it is my home. 

“You will always be welcome here. We’re honoured that you’ve chosen to live here, and we want you to stay. We need to keep encouraging people to come here if we’re to keep our working-age population growing and making the contribution to our tax revenues that we need.”
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So refreshing to hear from someone who is NOT a politician who worked for the public prosecutions department, And is NOT trying to use his title as a political point scoring opportunity; Nazir Afzal was formerly Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England. 88% of rapists charged were white.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers. Companies loaded with debt. Profiteering, high prices, profit shifting, tax abuse is rife. Paid £205m to shareholders/investors, leaving less for front line services. Public purse robbed. Must end privatisation
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Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds
Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It shouldn't have to happen to you for it to matter to you www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In other words... ...never the Tories, Farage, ReformUK, and all the other right-wing fascist parties who only care about themselves and money for their cronies. #ukpolitics #wato #bbcnews #bbcpm #ToriesBrokeBritain #ToryCorruption #ToryRussianMoney #FraudsterFarage #racism
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Hoody McExtremist @hoodyindy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does what Andy Burnham is saying sound familiar to anyone in Scotland? "Since the early days, you have dealt with attacks on your language, your culture and your elections." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Burnham says UK with Ukraine ‘all the way’ despite ‘outrageous threats’ from Russia – Europe live
UK PM hits back at Kremlin comment that sharing long-range missile blueprints will ‘add fuel to fire’ by asking ‘who started the fire?’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When a staunch Scottish Labour supporter criticises his own parliamentarians like this, Scottish Labour need to take notice A lot of Scottish Labour MSPs have deliberately LIED about @qmanivannan.bsky.social (presumably because of their gender & race…?) making these MSPs IMO unfit for public office
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A quick lesson on winning and losing a war. If you start a war of choice, blow through masses of your weapons stocks so that you cannot escalate effectively, and find the country you attacked dictating negotiating terms while in a stronger strategic position. You lost.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A typical far-right defender of women & girls ... "Alan Miller marched at Glasgow Green claiming to 'Save Our Women and Kids' - but he has a history of domestic violence against ex-partners and was convicted of assaulting his own mother" via Glasgow Live
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/08/2026
Donald Trump dodged the draft but is happy to post photos of himself in uniform while he sends our kids to die in his war.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When accepting Glasgow’s Mayoral Pigeon Chain of Office, Jimmy hadn't fully appreciated the many pressures that came with the job.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped So here is mine If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great👇
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/08/2026
BREAKING Reform UK's Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation that he failed to declare an interest.
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If this doesn’t make you angry…..you are a Fucking Cunt. And I won’t apologise for the language.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.
Victoria Moore: It may already be too late for Bordeaux's wine.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026
the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ukrainian actress Tania Galakhova turns body paint into a mirror for depression, giving an invisible struggle a shape people can actually see.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Magnificent. Just shared it on the wireless.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
These terrorists/ hoodlums can go unite wi the rest of the trash where they came from. We do not want your opinions here. Scottish police and Glasgow City council "SHAME ON YOU FOR ALLOWING THIS DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR TO TAKE PLACE ON OUR STREETS'',!!!!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m glad that Gibraltar can now embrace Europe. But I remain annoyed that in Scotland we remain trapped in our Brexit cage, from which there is only one sure-fire means of escape – independence, writes David Pratt ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I cannot tell you how much you should listen to Josiah talk about his investigations into Reform UK on today’s BSide 🎧👇
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#FreeIran🇮🇷 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #FreeLebanon🇱🇧 ... FROM Israel and the USA. Especially the USA.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...
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Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Woah ‼️. SCOOP 🔥 “George Cottrell carried a fraudulent Swiss passport in the name of ‘Oscar Drewitt’ – the identity under which he was hired into a City corporate finance network by the future Reform UK treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami.“
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🏳️‍🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️‍⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well, the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social has got how to label toilets properly... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The campaign group Good Law Project hit out at Labour’s proposals on X: “Inspired by Donald Trump, backed by Tommy Robinson, channelling the Nazis – here's Labour's new policy on migration.”
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A plan by home secretary Shabana Mahmood to seize valuable assets like jewellery from asylum seekers in order to pay for their accommodation resembles a policy used against Jewish people in Nazi Germany, critics have noted...........
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Under Mahmood’s crackdown, the state will seize assets from migrants – including jewellery, watches, cars and bikes – and sell them to cover their accommodation costs. In Nazi Germany, the state systematically confiscated and catalogued jewellery and other property from Jewish people...........
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Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Watch out for this on your travels folk, especially with tourists and summer holidays in full swing, also commonwealth games about to start
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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