AliceHeywood

Ex-Californian, stargazer & wanderer of Scottish islands. All views here are my own and not my employer’s.

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

“Too wee, too poor, too stupid” used to be an SNP straw man, now it’s an ambition. My @scotonsunday column on the damage wrought by Scotland’s sleazy government: https://t.co/4Mp0B0GXtQ

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

South Korean fans weren’t allowed to take their bottle of tequila beyond the first checkpoint going into the stadium, so they necked the lot of it alongside Mexicans who were there to watch the game.

That’s the World Cup spirit we all know and love. 😂❤️

[Frau Blüchar @FrauBluchar]

Male politician urges Scotland's seat of democracy to break the law. If you can't see what's wrong with that, we're all doomed.

[Barry Anderson @BarryAnderson_]

Adidas: Choose Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE UNMASKING OF THE HOSTS.

Look at the reality on the ground in Mexico—the stadiums are packed, the atmosphere is peaceful, and the country is opening its arms to the entire world without fear or prejudice. This is what the World Cup is actually supposed to look like. Mexico is showing true global hospitality, letting the beautiful game unite people across borders, and completely shattering the negative propaganda the Western press loves to spin about the Global South.

But look at the staggering, hypocritical contrast just across the northern border.

While Mexico creates an open, vibrant celebration, the United States is running a calculated policy of systemic exclusion. They are weaponizing their borders to humiliate the CAF Referee of the Year, Omar Artan, turning him away at the tarmac on completely fabricated, vague "security" whispers. And it’s not an isolated glitch—they’ve mass-denied visas to Côte d'Ivoire’s entire home-based supporters' club because they openly signaled they "do not want to see them" there.

The mask has fully dissolved. The U.S. wants the prestige, the global spotlight, and the billions in broadcasting revenue that African talent and fans bring to this tournament, but their deep-seated imperial hubris prevents them from treating our people with basic human dignity. Mexico is proving it can host the world with class and honor, while Washington treats a global tournament like a segregated, private club. The world is now wide awake to the fraud

[WheeshtCraft @Dis_Critic]

As someone who grew up in a housing scheme in Glasgow, I find it obscene that rich men get to invent their oppression- a glamorous oppression- the lanyard classes can 'address' rather than addressing real poverty, desperation and inequality. Shame on the complicit.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

Please stop using "openly non-binary" as if it's in any way a meaningful term. He's a man who enjoys the "specialness" of a label that means precisely zero.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

The conclusion I draw from the Early Day Motion that more than 130 MPs are entirely relaxed at the prospect of continued unlawful sex discrimination seen in recent judgments like the Darlington Nurses and LS v NHSE. As an experienced equality lawyer that sadden me greatly

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

The World Cup...except the World cannot attend it.

[Bill Cowan 🍒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺 @BillDunblane]

Robin McAlpine

"What I most certainly do not believe is that a political party which puts itself forward to run our lives should somehow be ‘free to be corrupt if we want to be – that’s our business’. I do not agree. I think corruption should be a disqualifying feature for a political party. I think it is a threshold of what I’d call ‘acceptable public behaviour’ below which a party seeking government should not fall."

https://t.co/zxJuZ5t7QR

[AliceHeywood @22carrots]

@GrahamGGrant There’s no institution in Scotland that hasn’t been infected with this bullshit.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is a dishonest gesture. MPs know that it is the Supreme Court that sets “the rules” (ie the law). All the EHRC has done or can do is explain the law. This is a subterfuge - these MPs don’t have the guts to say what they really want which is a change to the equality act

[AliceHeywood @22carrots]

@kacnutt @heraldscotland He. His.
Enough of this ludicrous language and ideology.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

I fear Scotland’s sidelining in this Brexit documentary part 1 reflects the harsh truth that despite repeated SNP election wins the ScotGov gained nothing for Scotland from their strategy & thus rendered themselves & our country irrelevant to this history https://t.co/D2ZtMXPaOO

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

MP Emily Thornberry joins 120 colleagues in support of men like this to have unfettered access to female-only spaces with your daughters, nieces, mothers, female friends.
And she turns off replies because she’s doesn’t want to hear dissent.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Throughout all this Mary-Ann Stephenson remained a class act: on top of her brief, unflappable and clear.

The law is the law, everyone knows what sex they are, and other people can usually tell too. People can be expected to follow rules, and women's rights matters.

[Rachael Hamilton Scottish Borders @Rachael2Win]

We lost the vote 71-50 tonight which would have forced a Scottish Parliamentary inquiry into the SNP’s murky affairs.

John Swinney’s pals, the Greens backed the SNP to avoid scrutiny.

The public deserve better.

[David Hamilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @DvdHmltn]

If @ScotParl does opt for a Publicly funded independent inquiry into political party finances then it should also ensure it is scheduled for FOI.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

“The role of the legal authorities in agreeing to a delay may have been entirely legitimate. But transparency must be the new watchword for Scotland’s secretive public bodies – so an inquiry should be able to clear that issue up once and for all.” 👏👏

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

Like it or not, that is exactly where this scandal has taken us, and why it was imperative the Scottish Government took every step possible to protect Holyrood's reputation.

They utterly failed to do so.