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So ahead of today's main 🧵for fun my top 10 of the #indyref pops.
1/Andrew Fairlie 🙏Out at 55 Truly the best of us, there he was in 2014 running the 5 ⭐️Gleneagles restaurant ''Alison call me anytime you want and if I can I'll help out with interviews'' True gent, so humble/
This won't be popular and I know he can be rather pompous in public BUT privately different, so
2/ Pat Kane, he really put in a shift in 2014, could not have been more helpful, did everything he could to lessen my workload, which was eh rather heavy/
3/Joanna Cherry KC, always available when asked and she was a working legal 🦅in 2014
4/Aberdeen's Kenny Anderson, businessman super lad, James Cook featured him in various TV packages, aye #SNP blocked his candidacy ahead of the 2015 GE, aye like me too much, too challenging 😡/
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"Petition lodged at WM by Sex Matters asks UK Gov to modify the Equality Act 2010 to put it beyond doubt that the terms “sex”, “male”, “female”, “man” and “woman” in equality law mean biological sex and not “sex as modified by a GRC." It would also legalfeminist.org.uk/2022/11/27/new…
hopefully make it illegal for #Scotgov to make funding applications by single sex services have a trans inclusive policy as a pre-condition. #Scotgov take the stance that these orgs choose to provide services based on self-id which is just a lie. They've gradually had to
"choose it" to ensure their funding continues. So we now have what once were single sex services that are not. This could be challenged now without any change to the #EqA but the dubiety about who is entitled to be seen as a woman in terms of the Act is all over the place.
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A THREAD on #Dundee Victorian campaigner agnst poverty, Mary Lily Walker. Her core motivation was t health of women&children. She was BORN 157 yrs ago today, 5 July 1863. I hv loved being part of efforts in t last decade to renew t public's memory of her. Here are some memories.
2. Here's the publication of Mary Lily Walker's biography, with author Eddie Small of @dundeeuni gifting a copy to Dundee's acclaimed son Brian Cox. This was 2013, when the book was just published. I remember when we dreamed up the idea of the book @annaday ! Image
3. Here's a pic of t 2013 conference we held to mark t Centenary of Mary Lily Walker's death. Yep, that's @JohnCarnochan speaking! John has built a reputation in calling for greater investmnt in women & children's health. As a police officer, he called for more health visitors. Image
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