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Philip Sim
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The latest annual roundup of @ScotParl statistics has been published - a veritable goldmine of niche parliamentary facts and figures, like this breakdown (to the minute) of chamber time in 2017/18 parliament.scot/ResearchBriefi… breakdown of chamber business in 17/18
The good people at the @ScotParl Info Centre have made some nice infographics from the treasure-trove of data, like this breakdown of whether members swore an oath or an affirmation (the difference being "so help me God" in the oath) oaths and affirmationsother languages breakdown
Some other interesting/niche stuff from the stats: on average, it took MSPs 268 days to pass a bill in 17/18 average time taken for a bill to be passed: 268 days
We're still some way off gender balance in the MSP group (although we did trade one male MSP for a female one after the 2017 UK election), but majority of MSPs *staff* are female - and numbers are rising faster than number of men 2018 gender stats2017 gender stats
I know you've always wondered which Holyrood committee holds the longest meetings...well on average, it would appear to be @SP_LocalGovt average length of committee meetings
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'The casualties..
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1/
 One of my favorite writers @ Caitoz

who I won't "Tag" in this Tweetstorm
because it will mess up her mentions

wrote an article about the Lying CIA, Coup, and Iran

I snarked back about Obama's 180 Bil
she didn't like that
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and strongly recommend her
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However, I dispute her version of Iran

So we shall discuss

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TBH, let's find out
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