Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA

Chair Welfare Scotland | Frmr Expert Exp Panel @PovInequalScot | EHRS | AM Royal Soc Pub Health | Fellow @theRSAorg | MIHSCM Inst Health & SocC Mgt 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

Go @IkaFerrerGotic! Speaking truth to power!

[Ika Ferrer Gotić @IkaFerrerGotic]

You clearly stated and firmly stood behind this statement: 'killing 20,000 children in Gaza is justified' even though I repeatedly reminded you those children are indeed innocent civilians. Civilians targeted daily, deliberately, and intentionally. No doubt about it. I was genuinely shocked you haven't thought this through. Our regional audiences are shocked and in distress over your lack of humility.

I understand this is now crisis management, Gunther, and the record of your stance has been made.

This is something that will not easily be ignored. It's a statement that will probably live with you forever and will mark you as a person and a politician. Times will change, ICC will do its job. International community will accept its failures.

Now, this is what you could do: apologize publicly for your previous statements that are absolutely shocking and shameful and start actively advocating for preservation of life of Gaza's children lives and their basic rights under international laws. Regardless of the fucking regime.

That's the only way to go from here. Saying this in good faith. Think about it.

| #Gaza #Genocide #Children

[Ika Ferrer Gotić @IkaFerrerGotic]

You clearly stated and firmly stood behind this statement: 'killing 20,000 children in Gaza is justified' even though I repeatedly reminded you those children are indeed innocent civilians. Civilians targeted daily, deliberately, and intentionally. No doubt about it. I was genuinely shocked you haven't thought this through. Our regional audiences are shocked and in distress over your lack of humility.

I understand this is now crisis management, Gunther, and the record of your stance has been made.

This is something that will not easily be ignored. It's a statement that will probably live with you forever and will mark you as a person and a politician. Times will change, ICC will do its job. International community will accept its failures.

Now, this is what you could do: apologize publicly for your previous statements that are absolutely shocking and shameful and start actively advocating for preservation of life of Gaza's children lives and their basic rights under international laws. Regardless of the fucking regime.

That's the only way to go from here. Saying this in good faith. Think about it.

| #Gaza #Genocide #Children

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Christa Pike, aged 50, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, USA, on 30 September 2026. She was convicted in 1996 of a 1995 murder committed when she was 18, barely out of a childhood in which she endured rape, sexual and physical violence, abuse and neglect.

The state failed to protect her as a child despite having knowledge of what she was facing. Her court-appointed lawyers then failed her at her trial, presenting little of the mitigating evidence of this abuse or its psychological consequences.

We urge the governor to stop this execution and grant clemency.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The far right are going to approach the wrong guy sitting in a park, minding his own business, and they’re going to find out.

[SpeakOutSister @speakoutsister]

Dear Bridget Philipson.

The UKSC explicitly stated in paragraph 2 of their judgement in FWS v Scottish ministers that they were NOT defining "what a woman is" for any purposes other than interpretation of the Equality act 2010.

Maybe give it a read before citing it?

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

I see the usual daft MAGA wallopers (who couldn’t point to the UK on a map) spreading misinformation and lies, abetted and amplified by the clown that owns this platform. Any excuse to perpetuate his bigoted bullshit.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

No explosives were found in the three vans near RAF Fairford, but a quantity of petrol was recovered.

It sounds more like petrol theft than terrorism. I know the usual suspects were praying for it to be terrorism related, but this is good news.

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

@I_amMukhtar Boohoooo

[Human Rights Campaign Rapid Response @HRC]

BREAKING: The Trump administration is erasing protections for LGBTQ+ kids and survivors of sexual assault in school settings without an opportunity for public comment.

Trump’s Department of Education has abandoned its duty to protect students from sex discrimination and sexual violence in schools.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Released on bail, not quite the imminent terrorist threat we were led to believe

[ruth allum @mgtruth]

The PSNI labelled institutionally misogynist, not an eyelid batted.

The PSNI following modern policing methods to monitor a public disturbance, demands for the resignation of the cc.

This is where we are now.

I despair.

[Rosemary Frazer @RosemaryFrazer]

I don't often beg but I'm begging journalists and commentators to focus on working age disabled people when discussing #socialcare policy. Too often the discourse is solely focused on older people. That's not helpful and doesn't give the full story.

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

If anyone knows about gaslighting then it’s the TUV and DUP.

[Cool FM News @newsoncool]

⛔️💥NEW GARVAGHY: “No parade, no Stormont.” - TUV says the DUP must walk away from power-sharing

🎥🎤@TUVonline MLA @TGastonMLA says “a line has been crossed” and Stormont is no longer sustainable following the Drumcree stand-off.

He also expresses a lack of confidence in PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher.

Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 is at Stormont and will have more throughout the day.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

A 10-year-old child and two women in their 30s died while attempting to cross the English Channel.

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

@two_truths @ContorSien1527 @UKLabour The one I got last week expires May 2027 but I know, like you said, the last couple before that only had a month or two left.

[Joy Henderson @Joyhenderson78]

Does anyone condemn this? Or does the condemnation only come when the population is mostly white?

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

@IndiaWilloughby They’ll make this shite and still stick their hands out for us to buy a TV licence.

[ruth allum @mgtruth]

The disruption to people’s lives barely mentioned.
PSNI officers scrambling for childcare.
Family routines f celebrations on hold.
For what?
Life is difficult enough without this.

[GfB 📚 @Dr_Gavin_Brewis]

Filled my cupboard and fridge today.

Doesn't sound like much, but I mind times in my Mas the power would cut out, and we'd be lucky to have bread or koka noodles in the cupboard. Going to bed starving, waiting for her to get her benefits.

So I'll never take for granted.

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

@Dr_Gavin_Brewis I still wonder how they got away with that for years. Putting so many people into constant poverty. So happy you’ve come through your experiences and can use them to highlight just how malignant that having to live in perpetual poverty can be.

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

@Dr_Gavin_Brewis I hear you. Mum would take the big fuse out after tea so the power card meter wouldn’t build up a debt as it kept ticking away even though we were in the emergency.