Catherine Stevenson

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[Cat @catdeans]

WOW!! Well done UK!! @denbypottery is now SO close to the 100k signatures the petition needs! If you care about British craftsmanship, about handmade over mass-produced, please sign and share this https://t.co/f7txedOvQz

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

Let’s enumerate:

• she was married to & cohabited with the thief
• she received & used stolen goods
• the goods included highly ostentatious items, cars & a campervan
• she was head of the party whose money was embezzled
• she signed (& thereby took responsibility for) accounts
• she shut down awkward questions about them, imperiously & with veiled threats
• 3 members of the NEC resigned over lack of access to financial records
• the party’s accountants resigned & had to be replaced
• the police saw fit to arrest & detain her
• she refused to answer police questions
• she has subsequently lied about what she knew & what she saw
• she claims, despite knowing better, to have been ‘exonerated’

I understand why, despite all this, she has not been charged. Proving dishonest knowledge or belief the goods were stolen would not be easy in this case.

She has NOT been cleared.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

This is simply untrue. The footage of her telling us that the finances were healthy and to be careful about asking questions was her response to the announcement that 3 members of the Finance & Audit committee were resigning because Murrell would not show them the books.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Don’t be fooled. Nicola Sturgeon (wife) is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. As leader of the party she is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction is 💯 clear.

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

The Protection Racket: why is Sturgeon free tonight? https://t.co/nZcXK9PFW7

[Chris Musson @ChrisMusson]

EXCL: Nicola Sturgeon refused to comment and sat in silence for hours during her police interview - despite publicly claiming to be "cooperating fully" with cops
https://t.co/aEd8YnpyjV

[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.

[Milli Hill @millihill]

Jaw dropping levels of misogyny here, even the 'you're too ugly to be raped' trope is wheeled out by these two who are actually stupid enough to think they're progressive. @campbellclaret is this where you learned about feminism?

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

@ick_real Ivy?

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

Parading their ignorance. Alistair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Alan Cummings, Ed Davey...a circle jerk of men telling women what rights we have, pretending to care about feminism. The self-awareness of whelks. Though that is bit insulting to whelks.

[Scotland in Union @scotlandinunion]

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[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

"The 6th biggest economy in the world is run by infantile fantasists with no understanding of financial markets.... There's nothing progressive about driving the economy of a cliff"📉⛰️

@LiamHalligan @ #BattleFest 2025 "From steel to railways: can the state revitalise British industry?"👨‍🏭🚆

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[lelemSLP @lelemSLP]

"Some were suicidal. Others could barely speak"

Dr. Orli Peter @orlipeter, psychologist who is helping Nova survivors, in an open letter to Mamdani's wife:

"Dear Ms. Rama Duwaji, You publicly liked social media posts describing the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas as “collective liberation.” You also placed a heart next to an Instagram post claiming that the reports of mass rapes on Oct. 7 were a “hoax.”

For the past two and a half years, I have been treating survivors of October 7, helping them slowly rebuild shattered lives and broken nervous systems. Some were suicidal. Others could barely speak.

Some of the people sitting across from me in therapy had witnessed rapes and executions so brutal that their nervous systems simply shut down. Words stopped working.

These people did not simply survive war. They survived mass and socially sanctioned sadism. Subsequent investigations by journalists, forensic teams and international bodies documented widespread sexual violence that day.

Families were burned alive.

Festival goers hunted down, raped and then executed.

Hamas terrorists documented much of the violence themselves: one attacker used a victim’s phone to call his parents and brag that he had killed 10 Jews with his own hands; and you surely saw the footage of Shani Louk, whose body Hamas fighters paraded through Gaza in the back of a truck while crowds spat and celebrated.

Survivors of the Nova festival have also described militants laughing as they hunted festivalgoers hiding in the fields.

These were not acts carried out in secrecy. They were recorded, boasted about and, in some cases, carried out with visible pleasure.

These were not only acts of murder. They were staged performances of cruelty. This was not violence used as a means to an end. It was violence relished for its own sake.

That is the socially sanctioned mass sadism my patients are still haunted by, superimposed on everything they see.

Once that sadism becomes undeniable, the narrative has a problem. Mass murder can still be reframed as resistance. Rape cannot. It exposes the cruelty too clearly, so it has to be denied.

That denial carries consequences not only for the survivors I treat but for Palestinians as well.

Refusing to confront the mass sadism of Oct. 7 keeps Palestinians trapped under the same violent movement that terrorizes them.

Hamas has long brutalized its own population. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented torture, arbitrary detention, and killings of Palestinians accused of dissent or collaboration, and journalists have reported Hamas beating and arresting Gazans who protest its rule.

This is what authoritarian movements do. Cruelty outward. Repression inward.

As New York City’s first lady, you are in a public position to inspire a movement for Palestinian rights and safety.

The survivors I treat are still trying to rebuild their lives after what they witnessed. Palestinians deserve to be free from the same sadistic movement that terrorizes them as well.

Public gestures matter. When someone in a position of influence treats atrocity as liberation, the signal travels far beyond a social media post.

The evidence is clear.

Admit that you were wrong and withdraw your support for the lie.

Some of us spend our days helping survivors rebuild the lives that Hamas shattered.

The least the rest of the world can do is stop sanitizing mass sadism and tell the truth about what was done to the victims of Hamas’ cruelty. ".

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The arguments about Iran are so polarised that no one wants to admit that several things are true at once:

You'd be a fool not to have serious reservations about the idea of a regime change war, especially in the Middle East.

You'd also be a fool to allow terrorist-funding lunatics to develop nuclear weapons.

Neither the people condemning these strikes, nor the people cheering them on know how this is going to work out.

So far, Trump Administration interventions have been extraordinarily successful in achieving valid objectives within a highly limited scope.

The strikes on Iran during the 12 day war achieved destruction of several nuclear facilities.

The Venezuela operation decapitated the hostile regime and replaced Maduro with a non-hostile leader.

Both also achieved significant "don't fuck with us" deterrence globally.

However, it is not remotely clear at this moment in time whether something similar can be achieved in Iran.

I understand and fully empathise with the people who think regime change is not going to work in Iran and you'll end up with the same as what you had or worse.

And I understand just as much the people who celebrate an evil dictator being killed and Iran's nuclear and military assets being degraded further.

The thing we do not know, and the thing that will determine whether this has all been worth it, is what the future leadership of Iran will look like. This seems to me to be the biggest risk Donald Trump has taken at any time in his first or second term. If it pays off, the reward both domestically and globally will be huge. If it doesn't and things go south, it could derail his Presidency and define his legacy like Iraq did for Blair and Bush.

Very few people have any idea which of these scenarios is more likely and one thing is for sure: none of them are talking about it on social media because they're all sitting in command bunkers, not on X.

I hope the people of Iran are released from living under tyranny. I hope the peoples of the Middle East can live in peace.
I hope the takeaway for any would-be terrorist is the realisation that October 7 might not have been such a good idea.
I hope that with the Middle East stabilised, the US can turn its attentions to the theatres that really matters to the security of the West: Russia and China.

Whether any of that happens remains to be seen and it seems the hardest thing for anyone to do is to not express an opinion before the smoke has cleared.

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

@davidvance What is this weird session with Islam!

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

@nats_tired South Edinburgh

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

@Tesco Hi Billy, this Tesco is in Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh and the recycling area is set up to the right of the store. I think it is more likely to be the Council's responsibility but they appear to taken very little interest in it.

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

@Tesco @EdinburghCC This is the awful mess I see every time I go to Tesco at Davidson’s Mains. Who is responsible for cleaning up this area?

[Robbie Travers @RobbieTravers]

@ZackPolanski Hamish spent a career preparing the UK for chemical, biological, radiological & nuclear attacks, as well as preparing other disaster management strategies, after a career as a frontline military officer.

You hypnotise women to “increase breast size.”

I know who I’m trusting…

[Catherine Stevenson @StevcaBird]

Amazing...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Song is considered to be one of the most difficult arias ever written for a soprano. And yet she makes it look so easy, and with such power. And she was only 17 years old when she performed it.