James Devine

Glasgow. Gay. Scot. Briton. Interests include theatre, history, novels, gym & wine. Likes and retweets not endorsements.

[James Devine @jamesdev15]

I watched 104 films during 2024. Here’s my 2025 log.

1. The Godfather (1972)
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[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

Hey @SkyNews 👋

Arab Israeli here. Allow me to set the record straight: there are no “Palestinian citizens of Israel” and your attempt to erase our identity and belonging in this country is racist, inaccurate and offensive. Can you imagine saying “the Mexican citizens of the United States” simply because one is Latino?

Less than 15% of Arab Israelis identify as Palestinian (and most polls have it closer to 7%). You don’t get to decide what our identity is.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him.

His name is Ilya Ben Rashid.

He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence.

He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property.

He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice.

Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom.

We must become his voice. We must stop his execution.

Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The BBC has agreed a £400,000 payout to a Jewish documentary-maker who says she was the victim of anti-Semitism and was bullied out of the broadcaster.

🔗: https://t.co/lwHKtJW7G0

[David Collier @mishtal]

Today in London, Jews considering moving to Israel are attending an event

The @metpoliceuk had to impose restrictions to protect them from protests and intimidation

Making British Jews leave the UK is not enough for the antisemites - they are hounding them on their way out too

[Etan Smallman @EtanSmallman]

The BBC rejected a Jewish documentary-maker's formal complaint of anti-Semitism AND her appeal – then paid out £400,000.

How can it refuse to apologise or admit she was a victim of anti-Jewish racism while justifying shelling our that amount of licence fee-payers' cash?!

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

The BBC has paid a former member of staff £400,000 after she was bullied out of the corporation for being Jewish.

After October 7, filmmaker Lucie Kon was told by BBC staff that she was "evil" and needed to "consider what drove Hamas to do what they did".
https://t.co/tdGHRbnGkU

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

It's like they actually want everyone to leave. ...The HMRC letter asking rich people to reveal what they own

https://t.co/tx0SErgZK5

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Yesterday, Islamists entered a church and slaughtered over a half dozen Christians in Jordan.

Cenk Uygur? Silent.

Mehdi Hasan? Silent.

Ms. Rachel? Silent.

[Planet Paul @planetpaulblog]

Revealed: Scottish state pays staff £27m for jobs that don’t exist
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An SNP ban on compulsory redundancy means 800 public-sector ‘ghost workers’ are on full pay even though their roles are gone

https://t.co/5pZFjSnkhl

[Craig Hoy MSP @CraigWHoy1]

Scandalous.

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

SNP ministers are forever telling us there’s no money. Then we discover this.

The Sunday Times reports at least £27 million a year spent retaining around 800 public sector workers without permanent posts. Some waiting five years. One for 17 years.

How on earth has this been allowed to continue? Swinney must answer for this disgrace.

It’s not the SNP’s money. It’s taxpayers’ money.

[Scottish Express @ScotExpress]

SNP Government working on hush-hush plans to bring back 'disastrously wasteful' PFI https://t.co/CZZF1yRHqL

[Dan Sanderson @DSanderson_85]

💥 Scotland’s hidden army of public sector ‘ghost workers’ whose jobs no longer exist but cannot be made redundant.

💰Staff have spent as long as 17 years on full pay without a fixed job, costing taxpayers tens of millions.

https://t.co/x5sN3n9ooY

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Another museum in Scotland has removed another Mummified remains from display because apparently they deserve “privacy in death”

I can’t believe I’ve just written that because it sounds bonkers & it is bonkers.

These people making these decisions need removing from their jobs because this is just insane.

[Bennett Arron @BennettArron]

Tonight the clocks go back an hour. And if you’re the Green Party they go back to the 1930s.

[Walter White @WalterWhite444]

An SNP ban on compulsory redundancy means 800 public-sector workers are on full pay even though their roles are gone. Some have been left in zombie jobs for 17 years, an indictment of a system completely out of control. Utterly criminal waste of tax payers money by the SNP.

[Georgia Edkins @Georgia_Edkins]

Major investigation from The Sunday Times - the Scottish state is paying a minimum of £27m a year to around 800 public sector workers, in the NHS, councils, police etc who do not have a job, but they cannot be made redundant owing to SNP policy
https://t.co/aaJ4Rv01dn

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A second batshit woke mummy story at a Glasgow museum:

An Egyptian mummy which has been displayed for more than 200 years has been covered from public view after the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow ruled she ‘deserves privacy in death’.

[James Devine @jamesdev15]

@KFeeOD @DropAPinShow When he’s in a good humour, yes…