Al Smith

Rampant Lion Media

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

You can take the boys out of Glasgow…😁

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

@WingsScotland Ah, but is Job pronounced “J-oh-b’ or ‘J-aw-b’. And don’t even start me on Philemon!!

[Care Not Killing @CNKAlliance]

What do MPs really think about the progress of the 'Assisted Dying' Bill in the Lords? New poll reveals MPs back Lords’ right to reject “unsafe” assisted dying bill as support wavers. A short thread with a link for more info at the end...🧵1⃣

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

@megbasham Quick overview here:

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

@megbasham The Wars of Religion - @canonpress

Plus - what @HwsEleutheroi said…

[James Eglinton @DrJamesEglinton]

Gaelic-English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Polish-English 🇵🇱 bilinguals in Scotland: we need you! This survey is on what it's like to experience religion/faith as a bilingual person. (Project run by me @thbaketal @zosia_mat & Caitriana Nicholson @EdinburghUni).

Please share!

https://t.co/2cK56oEGNl

[Jack @j4ppleby]

What a difference a headline makes.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

And just when you thought it could not get worse... https://t.co/qqQJHBFPm2

[Johannes M. Koenraadt @johannesmkx]

Same in the Netherlands. A 17-year-old girl named Milou was murdered by the state (euthanasia) after she had been raped twice at age 13 and 16. Her parents called the death doctor themselves to have her put down. We should, instead, bring back the death penalty for violent stranger rapes and gang rapes.

[LBC @LBC]

Gang-rape victim, 25 to die by euthanasia in Spain after jumping off roof in suicide bid that left her paralysed https://t.co/ZeZl8JkC9l

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

Doesn’t sound very democratic to me…

[Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray]

Death warrant maybe not the best choice of words

[James Eglinton @DrJamesEglinton]

Tonight an army of poorly funded doctors, nurses, pharmacists, disability advocates, anti-poverty campaigners and ordinary citizens writing to their MSPs stood up to a rich, celebrity fronted lobbying organisation… and won.

That’s remarkable and gives me hope for the future.

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

This point really struck me…

[Care Not Killing Scotland @CNKScotland]

Ruth Maguire: “Are we going to be a country where the state funds dying but hospice care relies on charity?”

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

They’re talking about a blank cheque that will paid for by taking budgets away from NHS, social care and palliative care. Genius!

[@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc]

New Scot Govt commentary on Assisted Dying Bill on the eve of the vote says “the costs associated with delivery of the Bill… are likely to be high, and will require a degree of reprioritisation… we would always seek to keep any negative impact on other services to a minimum”

[Care Not Killing Scotland @CNKScotland]

Three main things MSPs will be thinking about tomorrow: 1) Coercion of vulnerable groups, 2) patient trust in doctors when doctors are allowed to initiate conversations about assisted suicide, and 3) the removal of conscientious objection. @ShonaHaslam on @ScotlandTonight

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

I can relate to this...

[Joe Fae Glesga @joe_yer99]

This is 100% me painting., every single time.

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

@ginadavidsonlbc Wonder which parts of care budget or NHS budget will be sacrificed to pay for it? Maybe it'll break even in 5-6 years & then start making a profit after that once the numbers get really high and efficiency improves.

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

This …. From @LucyHunterB

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

Behind every movement able to buy an outside cover of multiple national papers is an awful lot of money.

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

@CMochan @dignityindying Except, of course, when you go on to ask a few more questions, right? When people hear a few of the arguments against it, the real level of public support quickly falls away. The more that people find out about what happens, the more they change their mind.

[Al Smith @alisdairsmith]

Drove past this exact same spot 30 years ago to the day… #Dunblane

The police cars and sirens started once I was passed the Kier roundabout.