Jack House Gallery

Fine Art Gallery showing really good contemporary art.

[Jack House Gallery @JackHouse]

A new biography of multi-talented #samrabin by Bill Crow is available to buy during our exhibition SAM RABIN A Life until 5th May contact gallery #boxer #artist #olympian #singer #wrestler #sculptor #teacher #stuntman image ©️Darnley Fine Art

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Edinburgh City Break Apartment @edin_city_break]

The data has never supported the ‘party flat’ excuse: 41 complaints out of 11000 from STLs- and more than half of those were from one property. This vendetta against STLs has always been about crushing the competition in order to make business deals with foreign investors building hotels. #SaveSC @PLACEEdinburgh @Edinburgh_CC @TheScotsman @bbcandrewpicken @deadlinenews @vickimillerVS @adamtomforrest @CBI_Scotland @SCOTOnetwork @stephenjardine @briandonnellyHT @collarbrodies @licensinglaws @stvnews @stvsharon @montaukian @mediawummin @RhodaFMorrison @donaldturvill @heraldscotland @bbcscotlandnews @edinburghpaper @scotgov
https://t.co/ALPAIrAgJK

[ASSC News @ASSCnews]

Fiona Campbell, the CEO of Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers (ASSC) recently told The Herald:

“The simpler and more business-friendly fixed rate approach, coupled with meaningful reform to the STL regulatory framework, would produce a sustainable visitor economy that genuinely works for businesses, local communities and the city's long-term reputation as a world-class destination.

“Instead, Edinburgh finds itself enforcing a flawed scheme against a compliant majority, while the black market it helped create looks on.”

@SaveSCScotland @FionaCampbell74 @st_alliance @Edinburgh_CC

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@scotgov @Edinburgh_CC @ASSCnews Full-time self-catering makes up less than 1% of all city residences, a tiny fraction compared to student accommodation. Meanwhile brownfield goes to new student flats & yet more hotels. /2

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@thecockburn What's at stake here is ensuring that local voices of real local people are heard & listened to. This is not progressive or green tourism. Small & sympathetic accommodation is beautiful. Protect it. Enough is enough. #SaveSC

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

And the reason no new reservoirs have been built is because the water industry was privatised. Redwood was one of the key architects of the sell-off.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC Owen, men’s incessant, ubiquitous violence against women & girls results in 3 murders a week in the UK alone.

So no, we won’t share our few places of refuge -which allow us to take part in public life – with trans-ID men, which means any man who’ll say the words “I’m a woman”…

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.

Enjoy:

[Edinburgh City Break Apartment @edin_city_break]

How so? Do you mean operating without proper safety checks? If so, the licensing laws brought in to deal with that ( which responsible owners have never had an issue with) have had the exact opposite effect. The only ones being closed down are the ones who are legal and compliant and have identified ourselves to as easy targets in doing so.

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

What's at stake here is ensuring that local voices of real local people are heard & listened to. This is not progressive or green tourism. Small & sympathetic accommodation is beautiful. Protect it. Enough is enough. #SaveSC

[Jack House Gallery @JackHouse]

Da Vinci code

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Have you ever read a super popular book that was written so badly it genuinely annoyed you?

[SMAG @SmagSocials]

Remember the single hub we highlighted the other day? Well, here it is again this afternoon... just after @Edinburgh_CC had collected the recycling in Marchmont.

It's not just continuous fly tipping, it's the shocking service delivery affecting the whole South Meadows area:

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

For any employer still "waiting for the @EHRC guidance"- and there are still far too many - all you need is this clear, measured and accurate article on how to comply with the Supreme Court judgment in @ForWomenScot. It really isn't complicated.
https://t.co/FrAXgpCTfV

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@scotgov @Edinburgh_CC Locally run self-catering businesses are being closed down while foreign investors are welcomed to build aparthotels on minimum wage staff & exfiltrate profits abroad. Anyone pretending otherwise is lying. #SaveSC

[Edinburgh City Break Apartment @edin_city_break]

Responsible STL hosts are feeling it all over Scotland: the unfairness of the current system which penalises compliant and responsible hosts and does nothing about the growing black market @scotgov have created #SaveSC

[Fiona Campbell @FionaCampbell74]

Scotland’s policy debate has become absurd.

“Self-catering” = good.
“Short-term lets” = bad.

Yet in most cases they are the EXACT same properties.

The same Highland cottage.
The same family-run flat.
The same rural business supporting local jobs and tourism.

One label is praised. The other politicised.

We urgently need evidence-led policymaking, not headline-led scapegoating.

Today, @ASSCnews submitted a new briefing to MSPs calling for fairer regulation, Visitor Levy reform, and recognition of the vital role Scotland’s self-catering sector plays in communities and the economy.

Read more: https://t.co/3jouHkMkMY

@st_alliance @scothospgroup

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

NHS sees biggest improvement in waiting times in 16 years

https://t.co/CxLM0P4cHI

[Thea Sewell @theasewell05]

lIf you do anything today, watch @MaeveHalligan at the Cambridge Union. I genuinely think this was the first time many people in that room were confronted with the hard reality of the trans debate, rather than the slogans that usually surround it.

@BuckAngel was exceptional: calm, articulate, humane. Ultimate respect.

And then there was Helen Webberley. I remember once thinking the criticism directed at her by GC women was excessive, especially the claim she was ‘pure evil’. After hearing her speak, I no longer think that. She is totally insincere. I can deal with hard ideologues- they believe they are telling the truth; they are genuine, @HelenWebberley is different.

One audience member, a trans-identified male and former patient of hers, stood to speak during points of information. His account of how he had been treated was deeply disturbing.

Watch the full debate. It is worth your time.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:
Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged Louisiana Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.

Louisiana ranks dead last in economy and crime, 46th in education, 48th in infrastructure, 49th in environment, 46th in opportunity, with 18.9% poverty — worst in America.

But they're stripping power from a Black-majority New Orleans instead of fixing any of it.

This isn't reform. It's racist reconstructionism.
Gary said it plainly: "You lost every constitutional amendment you proposed, even in your own districts."

They don't ask the people because they know they'd lose. No choice. No vote. No voice.