Ms Burnsey

Scot. Throwing hyperbole around as if I'm in a TV law drama, allegedly.

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@WingsScotland Hahaha! He’s such a nyaff.

[David Halliday @DavidJFHalliday]

All Scottish political "journalists" then: "Sean Clerkin's a nutter. Joanna Cherry's a transphobe. Wings is a hate-merchant. Please move on."

All Scottish political "journalists" now: " How oh how can no-one have spotted anything? It's unbelievable! Continues pages 2 - 23."

[Avocado 🥑 of THE LAW LEAVES NO SCOPE Wrath #KPSS @WrathQueenof]

A man with a history of domestic violence turned up where his ex, her parents & child were living.

He detonated a grenade, killing her.

People have noticed because it was a *grenade*

@Metro calls it ‘a domestic fight’. Did they both have grenades?

https://t.co/tWUNTHhgc8

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A DOCTOR WARNED THEM IN 2003.
62 WOMEN ARE DEAD.

In 2003, Dr Andrew Stockdale, a consultant oncologist at Heart of England NHS Trust (@uhbtrust), walked into a multidisciplinary team meeting and told colleagues what he was seeing. Women who should have had one mastectomy were coming back for two, three, more.

He had figured out why: Ian Paterson was leaving cancer tissue behind on purpose, running what he called a "cleavage-sparing mastectomy" that nobody had approved and nobody was questioning.

Stockdale reported it. To the GMC (@gmcuk). To meetings. To anyone who would listen.

The meetings, by his own description, were not exactly open forums. Paterson was, quote, "a forthright individual who held firm views."

The chest walls of women he had operated on still had enough breast tissue to fit a bra. Stockdale, an oncologist, knew that was wrong. He referred them.
They went back to Paterson. Paterson operated on them again.

Nothing happened. For seven more years, nothing happened.

Paterson was not suspended until 2011. By then he had treated 11,000 patients.

The 2020 public inquiry estimated more than 1,000 of them were actively harmed. In October 2024, Stockdale gave evidence to a coroner's inquest covering the deaths of 62 women.

The inquiry found that Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare (@spirehealthcare) had received multiple warnings and failed to act on any of them.

The 2013 Kennedy Review put it plainly: whistleblowers do not fare well in the NHS. It described the institution as inward-looking, over-defensive, and prone to destroy those who suggest the emperor has no clothes.

Dr Stockdale was not destroyed. He was just ignored, which in the NHS is apparently the next best thing.

Paterson is in prison, serving 20 years.

The system that let him operate for a decade after the first warning received a report with 15 recommendations.

The government said it would respond.
Then COVID happened.
Then they responded in December 2021.
Then they published a progress update.

And somewhere in that bureaucratic relay race, 62 women's families are still waiting for a coroner's conclusions expected in 2026.

One doctor. One warning. 2003. The rest is institutional arithmetic.

Sources: @itvnews, @BBCNews, @guardian, @PSLearning, minhalexander_com, Ian Kennedy Review 2013, Paterson Inquiry Report February 2020.

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

We've been cursed with hundreds of Lex Luthors and not a single Batman.

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@Tumble_W33D @GabyMcKay @joshpizpom @heraldscotland He’s registered as Mirza Muhammed Ijaz Sarwar, not Ajaz, and he still has an active business registered to the same address as a business of the man who said he bought the Union Street shop two weeks ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️ https://t.co/gUQKaoD9Eu

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

Women have helped change the world in many different ways, but possibly the strangest involved a woman from Glasgow named May Donoghue and a dead snail.

Cont./

#paisley #statue #glasgow #internationalwomensday #thesnailinthebottle

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@MrNeilScott They banned flavoured vapes in the Netherlands a few years ago, and all the vape shops closed almost immediately.

[Iain Masterton @iain_masterton]

Aerial images taken at 5am Monday 9th March of major fire still burning at Central Station in Glasgow city centre. Looks like the fire has been contained.

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@mansoor_dhillon @Suffragent_ Stop stealing the work of other people, you sad, pathetic piece of shit. These photos are from @iain_masterton

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@timothyjweber It wasn’t the train station. It’s the building to the left of the train station, out of shot in your first picture. Still horrendous, obviously. :(

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@DrMoragKerr @SouthHampUpper1 @MrNChance This is a picture taken last year. You can see that the lights are on and something is inside. https://t.co/WOATZOpxDP

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

There's currently a major fire on Union Street in the centre of Glasgow. There are no reports of casualties, but apparently parts of the building involved have collapsed.

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #unionstreet #fire #architecture

[DutchNews.NL @DutchNewsNL]

Barendrecht man jailed for 18 years for abusing 31 children https://t.co/wKWyLTdkzR

[Julie Hull @rivier]

@Szlater2 The utter hypocrisy of a room full of cultural elites glorifying a film about a disability & heaping praise on the actor pretending to have that disability, then recoiling in disgust & outrage at having to be in the presence of the actual disabled guy fictionalised in that film…

[Justin @tuco2k]

@AntSpeaks A snippet of the court scene. Just shows the lack of understanding at the time & how important John's work was for others with this condition.

[DutchNews.NL @DutchNewsNL]

Hackers access Odido customer info, 6.2 million could be hit https://t.co/WjUaMuBEkD

[Paul Howard @AkaPaulHoward]

The lad signing the story about a member of the public heckling King Charles deserves the rest of the day off for this.

[Ms Burnsey @MsBurnsey]

@Opiumbrella @ThePosieParker My daughter (20) went alone last year. She said Budapest is really fun, Slovenia & Austria are great for relaxed wandering. Avoid capital cities (dangerous & dear). She ended up staying in Austria for 5 mths. Avoid big chains (like a&o) and go for cosy, independent hostels.

[Mary Aspinall-Miles @MAMBarLife]

A letter from today’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…