Retired UKCP reg psychotherapist & teacher, Scotland. More democracy. Practise love; acknowledge power; realise justice. 'Cradling the Chrysalis'
Joined September 2017
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Jamie Mann and Petra Matijevic have examined all of the known offshore entities in the Land Register and checked whether they have made a declaration on who controls them in the RCI.
In results that are both shocking and unsurprisingly they found that two thirds (956) of the 1447 offshore entities that own Scottish land registered in the Land Register have failed to register a recorded person or any associates. 2/7 theferret.scot/offshore-land…
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Scotland is not a frontrunner. The public cannot look behind secretive landownership as there is nothing to see. 7/7 More details on by blog andywightman.scot/2026/06/tw…
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“It is as if the whole British economy is being turned into Thames Water. The owners of Thames Water did not use their revenue to provide clean water. They used it to pay dividends to themselves, special management fees to themselves, and stock buybacks.”
Jun 13
Must read. In one interview Michael Hudson identifies the root of today's grossly unfair, unstable economy and sums up almost everything I've been clumsily trying to get across on this site over the past couple of years. Please share. nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/…
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Uni’s are marking students down for using the words “women and mothers”.
In this clip from the new story, the woman behind @justsay_mother
tells how changes to language in women’s health were made with no research, pushing gender neutral terms. This is why research is needed.
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We shouldn't run - we should STAND - like Mark Rylance says in 'Bridge of Spies' - Scotland should be 'stoyashchiy muzhchina' - a standing man.
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Good to see 'Actions the College will take’.
Good to see a clear focus on improving women’s mental health from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
✅ accurate language and use of word “woman”
✅ accurate definition of woman in line with Equality Act and Supreme Court
✅ focus on women throughout the lifecycle including puberty, pregnancy, post-partum and menopause
✅ focus on addressing VAWG and providing trauma informed care
✅ calls for single sex accommodation accross all mental health inpatient settings, with focus on PICU (psychiatric intensive care) as a starting point
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Fantastic read from @PaulKnaggs
"the political damage...is measured in every working-class woman who watches Labour MPs sign a motion against the legal clarity she has waited years for, and draws the obvious conclusion. It is measured in every constituency where the word ‘Labour’ no longer carries the meaning it was intended to carry. The party that was built to represent the interests of those with the least power in society has, on this question, positioned itself against the sex-based protections of half the population."
labourheartlands.com/betraya… via @Labourheartland
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Jun 13
The General Sherman Tree. By volume, it’s the largest living tree on Earth and is estimated to be 2,500 years old!
Despite their importance old growth forests continue to be logged globally. It's time to protect the irreplaceable.
#ActOnClimate #deforesation #rewilding #nature
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Disgusting how Lynne has been treated. Please donate.
Jun 13
12 MONTHS LATER & I'M STILL BANNED by ULTIMATE POOL! 25% of Crowdjustice Target raised so far👏 .The "Defence" has been received. Update on the Crowdjustice link in my bio & in comments. Thank you to each & every one of you for your continued support ❤️ please share . 🙏
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Jun 12
"Wall of Tears," a 100-foot-long outdoor mural honoring 18,457 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
WELL DONE DEARBORN THE FIRST CITY IN AMERICA TO DO THIS.
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Another one to remember. Jean O’Leary calling out the misogyny of drag, addressing Rivera directly at NYC Gay Pride 1973. Have a listen. Lesbians were already fighting against the misogyny inherent in drag culture back then. Same old misogyny today. Even worse as men skin walk us
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Is there any merit to the idea of forcing every recalcitrant Minister, MP, MSP and Councillor to sit down and read the Equality Act, FWS and the EHRC guidance, in full?
We'll happily provide the coffee and hob nobs ☕️
Somebody else can provide the trauma counselling after?
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
“As a default setting, I will not say ‘she’ of a man, because that’s paying lip service to a belief I don’t share.”
Anyone who’s followed the employment tribunal case of nurse Sandie Peggie, will be familiar with Naomi Cunningham’s incisive questioning and dry wit. We’re looking forward to hearing her contribution to our panel Women and the Law: is the contract between women and the State broken?
Come and join the debate at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026.
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
See you there…
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Jun 13
If you look at the UK's history of arms procurement it is just amazing. Highlights include;
* The QEII class aircraft carriers
* The L85 rifle
* The Ajax tank
* The Nimrod MRA4
It's a litany of overpriced shit and total failure. Money hosed up the wall.
Jun 12
The BBC has fed the public a diet of stories demanding increased defence spending, and a stream of warnings of an imminent threat from Russia.
Such spending can happen only through deeper austerity cuts. Despite the propaganda blitz, a majority of Britons want public spending prioritised over more toys for the boys.
That is reflected nowhere in the media coverage, as Des Freeman explains:
"There are twenty stories from the past six months on the BBC’s page dedicated to ‘UK defence spending’. They draw on 71 different sources, of which not one is critical of an increase in defence spending...
"The Trades Union Congress, representing 5.5 million workers, passed a motion at its 2025 conference to ‘reaffirm that our movement’s priority is welfare and wages, not weapons and war’. No broadcaster touched the story and both the Guardian and the Independent ignored it."
More here: lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/june/wag…
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Jun 12
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
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Jun 13
“NHS England had sought to argue that, along with many other employers, it was applying the EqA as it understood it and in line with guidance and advice it had received at the time (including from Stonewall and Unison). However, the ET rejected this argument…”
Jun 12
Tribunal ruling "There is no express legal right for a transgender person to use the single-sex facilities of the gender with which they identify; either under the EqA or the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992"
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Nick’s gender blog is fabulous - take a look. These are untold stories.
Jun 12
My thanks to @JonniSkinner for sparing the time to tell his story. He's a lovely bloke, but boy has he been through the mill. Another long read, bringing home the horrors of gender-affirming medicalisation.
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This: all this is such a big distraction from so much that is so much bigger in scale of seriousness and urgency. I find it unbearable. Not conspiracising. It’s part of the reactive ‘madness’ to that massive crisis in the face of which politicians feel helpless, sadly.
What I find especially depressing is that as we stand on the edge of chaos caused by climate and ecosystem collapse, Nadia is investing her time in promoting a dangerous queer agenda that will only serve to increase the chaos. assets.publishing.service.go…
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Mary MacCallum Sullivan retweeted
Jun 12
My thanks to @JonniSkinner for sparing the time to tell his story. He's a lovely bloke, but boy has he been through the mill. Another long read, bringing home the horrors of gender-affirming medicalisation.
genderblog.net/jonni-skinner…
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Strong support!
If Mr Swinney really wants a wide-ranging look at the use of money in Scottish politics, and improper influence, FWS rightly identifies that he should start close to home.
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