David G Boyes

Media consultant, providing PR and web services, social media management and training, blogging and web content. Ex-radio broadcaster.

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@ScotRail All bins full and needing emptied on carriage 38751 at Ayr.

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@thomsonrichardg They do not “give” you anything at all. It’s an equity loan, repayable at agreed rates. Plus, it’s the taxpayers’ money in the first place - it doesn’t come from some mythical SNP piggy bank of universal kindness.

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@larabirdsnp The only crisis you are being “dragged into” is one of your own making.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

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@murdo_fraser That former CE and his wife wanted, among other things, to steer Scotland on a political course independent of the rest of the UK, setting up Scotland’s own benefits system, military forces, new national currency and a central bank. Were it not so serious, we’d all laugh.

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@WingsScotland Tell Anwar to p*** off.

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@afneil He has admitted the embezzlement charge.

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@AgentP22 Badly.

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@waitrose Plenish almond milk is 22.5% more expensive at Waitrose than Morrison’s. £2.45 versus £2. That’s some difference.

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@joannaccherry Flat Earth? Kind of the same, isn’t it?

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@ScotNational The politburo rises.

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@JohnSwinney @theSNP @ScotParl You do not, it is not and you will not.

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@JoopSoesan So @joopSosesan You don’t know what you’re talking about. Why don’t you bugger off back to Edam Land?

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The lax treatment of Angela Rayner by HMRC has brought into focus how arbitrary the tax authority can be in its treatment of ordinary citizens.

Too often, HMRC has pursued individuals and small businesses for vast sums of money in error. HMRC are masters of using process as punishment, making themselves increasingly difficult to contact while torturing people with demand letters and bankruptcy notices.

Victims of these errors are often forced to spend huge amounts of time and money to prove HMRC wrong. This sometimes runs to hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees, many times the actual amount in dispute. They also find their names and details published in a list of deliberate tax defaulters, in effect a "name and shame" list.

I have to question whether this meets citizens' privacy rights, since these do not appear to be court rulings but HMRC opinions.

HMRC's excesses must be brought under control. It is time ministers took a grip of this.

https://t.co/cJIQYyUE0e

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

It's been revealed that far-left Green party leader Zack Polanski is currently living in a £2m 5-bedroom Hackney townhouse.

Data says 0.5% of the population live in a house worth more than £2m.

He is part of the 1% he is constantly banging on about. You can't make it up.

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@RealStephenKerr Joined.

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Amend electoral eligibility rules in Scotland - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/zLRKa8YwxN via @UKChange

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@Feargal_Sharkey @alextomo @Channel4News @EnvAgency And in Scotland, the enforcement quango SEPA are equally culpable.

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@theSNP More “giveaway” guff.

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@theSNP The pathetic politics of envy.