Child of Leith

"Now a' is done that men can do and a' is done in vain" Robert Burns.

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@olliefirth_ Aye, change the rules, so that it can be shown that someone is offside, but give a goal because he's nearly onside.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

Beyond honoured and humbled to be nominated in the Hounding An Obscure Black Academic To His Death On Behalf Of Those In Power With Certain Agendas Despite His Being Found Not Guilty Of The Charges I Did Everything I Could To Sensationalize category.

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@CockertonMark Maybe someone should tell her what's going on in Gaza!

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@GerryHassan Just a reminder that her husband and former fellow cabinet member interviewed her on GMB a few months back.

[Nicky Campbell @NickyAACampbell]

He gets 15 years. That’s all
‘Jeffrey Donaldson has been jailed for 15 years for the abuse of two girls for more than 20 years - two decades of abuse, including raping one victim when she was seven or eight years old, 13 indecent assaults and four counts of gross indecency.’

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

If you haven’t yet seen this, it’s worth taking a look at this detailed examination of the UK Govt’s response to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. One key revelation is when aid workers including British nationals were killed in an Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy. Two days later, the then UK Foreign Sec David Cameron signed off on the latest arms export approval to Israel. That same day he announced an urgent and “transparent” investigation into the attack. https://t.co/DpLV7MW7vK

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Most polling just tracks what buttons the right wing press are pushing at any given time, because it's plainly ridiculous to put the only major party with a Jewish leader on level pegging with the party led by a guy who credibly did gas chamber jokes and sang Nazi Youth songs.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

Once again the press shows us who the acceptable targets of racism are

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@edwinhayward I suspect you already know the answer to that.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

He's a draft dodger.

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Kingspan faces €100m investor lawsuit in UK over alleged Grenfell Tower misconduct.

Sharedholders are suing the firm, arguing its behaviour damaged the value of their investments.

Link below (TW for image of the tower on fire)

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

They looked through everything they had on Lubna Speitan, and clearly couldn't find anything.

So they turned to using the guilt by association tactic. Absolutely pathetic.

[Mountain @sharpeleven]

The same diabolical, hate-drenched, scabrous, cynical, media parasites, recycling the same faux outrage and worn out smears they tried nearly ten years…

[craigwhytefanclub @craigwhitefanc1]

On this day, 3 October 1973, the trial began of now-famous actor Ricky Tomlinson, then a plasterer, with five other building workers for their role in a national builders' strike the previous year.
Refusing to testify against other workers, they were convicted of "conspiracy to intimidate" under a 19th-century law which had not been used in 98 years.
Tomlinson was jailed for two years, most of it spent in solitary confinement due to his refusal to wear prison uniforms on the grounds of it branding him a criminal.
He became a socialist inside after being given a copy of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

The government department responsible for building regulations is also among the 20 corporations referred to the CPS, secretary of state Angela Rayner confirms in a statement. The charge relates to Health and Safety at work offences

[Gerry Hassan @GerryHassan]

The Conservative Party lost control of public finances, welfare & immigration. Maybe a note of humility & contrition for their disastrous record would be a start. Rather than the constant line that they have instant answers to everything they made worse over 14 years.

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@AmraWatson If we're being generous, we may conclude that Bedenoch is marginally less shite than she used to be.

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

Throw paint at a plane and you're looking at 20 years on terrorism charges. Close down a lifeboat station and what?

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@Cammy260 There is no chance that we're filling Hampden to the brim.

[Child of Leith @ChildLeith]

@GerryHassan Maybe someone could wake him up and ask him...