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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

Grossly incompetent or dishonest from the BBC here

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As do I

In a speech this week, former Nato Secretary General George Robertson called for more military spending. But war is never the answer. As a nation, let’s spend money on the things that make us all safer. @quaker.org.uk #WarCostsUsTheEarth #GDAMS youtube.com/shorts/3xro_...

We didn't deserve this day.

Any shares of the posts below very much appreciated! Thank you.

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Next Networking Event Saturday21st March at 10am. "Exploring Calm Leadership - Patrick Cozier's book about developing into our leadership roles." DM for link.

A message for International Women’s Day. We deserve better. 🌷

When Starmer says the Greens and Reform are equally extreme, just as when Labour make the same comparison between SNP and Reform, it causes a visceral reaction in me. Not just because it’s stupid. But because it shows a fundamental triviality about the existential threat posed by the far right.

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🎉 #PedagooGhlaschu returns! Tagging #Pedagoo pals @drewburrett.bsky.social @womenedscotland.bsky.social @cathtrac.bsky.social @jminelly27.bsky.social @stuartphysics.bsky.social @ccouser.bsky.social @catmac705.bsky.social @paulinemurray08.bsky.social @charlainesi.bsky.social Spread the word 🌳🦜🐟🔔

Going through perimenopause and menopause when you work in a school can be tough. It's the hot flushes when you've no control over your environment. It's needing the loo when you can't leave your class. It's brain fog when you've so much to remember. #Edusky #EduskyUk #WomenEd

Saturday 21st February at 10am our next networking event. We‘ll be exploring our value of connection. DM for the link.

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For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’s comin yet for a’ that, That man to man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that. From my family to yours, Happy Burns Night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.

This is fab 👏🏼👏🏼

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

🚨 Scottish Green MSPs have secured taxes on the super-rich to help fund schools and childcare in today's Scottish Budget. ✅ Private Jets: taxed ✅ Shooting estates: taxed ✅ Mansions: taxed ✅ Free breakfast clubs: delivered

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The Scottish Parliamentary Elections are happening next May and Bylines Scotland needs you! We're looking for writers, editors, proofreaders and fact-checkers so that we can report the party campaigns as they evolve. We're all volunteers and if you fancy joining us contact : [email protected]

Important point for #EduSky ⬇️

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?

Algeria’s new law declares French colonial rule a crime, seeking accountability and reparations for the colonial past.

First light on Beinn Fhada, Glen Affric #Scotland #Highlands #GlenAffric www.damianshields.com

ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. THAT IS A FACT. VIA the Associated Press and the United Nations people. Repost this.

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

Morning blue skyers Hope you have some of these in you heart today! #mindset

Do both. And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns. Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.

Stop asking what victims did or did not do A Harrods survivor’s challenge to us all: Start asking why the British establishment did nothing then and continues to do nothing

Census data reveals Gaelic and Scots skills growing #suffrago #UKPolitics #YourVoiceHeard #SuffragoUK #Glasgow #Scotland #GlasgowCityCouncil #ScottishGovernment #gaelic #scots #indigenouslanguage #westernisles @suffrago.org

Watching Andrew Tate getting a good smacking is a sacred winter solstice ritual. Happy smack a misogynist day to all who observe 🧙🎄💅🏻🫶🕯️

The Union between Sweden and Norway (1814-1905) Norway peacefully dissolved it in 1905 to become fully independent. The sky didn't fall in, there was no plague of locus, no backstabbing, no lies...just two normal grown up countries, going their own way. #EndLondonRule #IndependenceIsNormal

New #StarterPack! 📢 Calling all Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 educators. Here's a wee space for us all. If you're an early years practitioner, school teacher, lecturer or are all about Scottish education, let me know and I'll add you to the list 📃 Pls share x go.bsky.app/U92yyzH

Looking forward to the holidays? Come and join WomenEd Scotland on Dat 20th December at 10am. Sign up below. www.eventbrite.com/e/womened-sc...

Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

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Scotlands teachers are facing precarity, casualisation and unemployment on the one hand while other teachers are overworked to the tune of a day and half a week extra on the other hand. Its time to vote YES YES and act on workload, precarity, casualisation and underemployement of teachers.