What is more of a threat to the British state:

1/5 a) Normalisation of Independence by a credible, competent Scottish government functioning for all sections of society & seeking to engage internationally as a responsible & reliable partner

2/5

@akmaciver British Journalism Awards’ Technology Journalism Award in December 2017

1/ @akmaciver Specialist journalist of the year 2017 at the national Society of Editors press awards

2/

@shonacraven "We’ve already lost. What a mess"

Precisely

This is one example of how identity politics has destroyed left wing discourse

We need to recognise the spread of this toxic debate has long since passed containment & delay phases. We're beyond mitigation. The damage is done

1/n @shonacraven All that's left now is to learn lessons & rebuild a discourse in which we can disagree better

How did it start? I'd suggest with PoMo playing fast & loose with the relationship between universal & contingent observations, escalating the significance of subjective experience

2/n

@JayMacYes @Garfield_1971 @scouseweegian @do_mck @cee4cat @MrMalky Here is a thread with excerpts from Neil Mackay's report in the Sunday Herald of 21 September 2014 describing how the Unionist riot in George Square 5 years ago today was co-ordinated 1/10 @JayMacYes @Garfield_1971 @scouseweegian @do_mck @cee4cat @MrMalky "We had heard that the loyalist violence was being co-ordinated online by a hardline group with connections to Northern Ireland. So, we used social media to ask you to help us find out if this was true - [...] - and you helped us.
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@WingsScotland Except she's right.

When you are in a hole, you don't set some future deadline to stop digging by 2030, or 2050, or 2045, or whatever.

You stop digging immediately.

We are in a hole. @WingsScotland We have most likely already passed key tipping points, triggering positive feedback mechanisms that could propel us beyond +4°C within decades.

The +0.8°C that has occurred already over the last half century is orders of magnitude more rapid than the end of the last ice age.

@scarycath @UpIander @SovereignAnnie @iainmacwhirter "trans women are women" is used as though it means
trans women = women
rather than
trans women ⊂ women

"adoptive parents are parents" clearly means
adoptive parents ⊂ parents
just as
biological parents ⊂ parents

The ⊂ applied to one doesn't exclude the other @scarycath @UpIander @SovereignAnnie @iainmacwhirter But if you think in terms of = rather than ⊂, in order to include trans women in the category "women" you end up excluding women, who must now be called "cis women".

I cannot think of a more blatant example of colonisation. Women are consigned to the reservation.