Gordon Raw

Grumpy old man

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@andrew_lilico Who found the influx of Poles into the UK notorious and controversial? They came with skills and motivation and did jobs that people from the UK were incapable of doing or unwilling to do.

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@thesundaysport @SartorialThug Never go full Windsor.

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@staylorish @LucyHunterB I was in the Debate Night audience when Smith claimed that Calmac ferries had 97% punctuality. He knew no one in the audience would have the figures to hand to point out the level of cancellations not included in those figures, or the short trips that inflate that stat. He lies.

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@DBanksy @Scott_Wortley The Tracys were American, surely? And Captain Scarlet was so mid-Atlantic he was probably from Ascension Island.

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@CatrionaStewart @DalgetySusan The further education sector in Scotland has become a massive visa mill, no different, except in scale, to the myriad vape shops, Turkish barbers and ethnic restaurants who exist by charging fees to migrants in exchange for sponsoring them.

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@Scott_Wortley Is Alyn Smith the only MSP who, if he were chocolate, would eat himself?

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@TheSimonEvansX He’s so close to getting it with his discussion of domestic violence. Similarly with the accusations of Carl Beech. We want the police to attend incidents not assuming what is happening, not believing or disbelieving anyone, just establishing the facts and responding accordingly.

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@Scott_Wortley How boring that would have been.

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@muldoons_ @Gordon100 @AllisonPearson

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@francesbarber13 @TimesRadio The journalism is much better, particularly in the morning, but the adverts become tediously repetitive if you listen regularly.

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@SVPhillimore The social model is similar to, say, intersectionality. A sensible observation of something true and potentially important, in this case that society creates or allows barriers that exacerbate the impact of disabilities, is promoted until it becomes the only important thing.

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@LoudBonnet @SVPhillimore Surely it’s common cause? They both stem from a more general spread of identity politics and the prioritisation of individual ‘lived experience’, shaped, as postmodernists would claim, by ‘language, culture, and power dynamics’.

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@QcWynter That’s an oddly specific example, but yes, it must feel a bit like that. Apart from buying a private jet or a superyacht, there’s really nothing short of an uncontrolled gambling habit that could burn through the kind of money they earn.

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@DeanMThomson We don’t know that they didn’t flag the weakness of controls to the NEC. They only have a statutory duty to conduct their audit in such a way as to detect material fraud, which the Jaguar and/or Camper Van would represent, but the smaller items would not.

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@AllisonPearson And earlier in the incident, a telephone call from a member of the murderer’s family alleging an incident of ‘racial abuse’ was enough to send four officers speeding to the scene.

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@whippletom I think the fact that it’s a trial is important. The group selected has a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer than all men of that age, but the incidence is still low given the level of false +ives. They may conclude that the target group should be narrowed further.

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@discocitizens @TheSimonEvansX @theJeremyVine I doubt if Scots would have anything to say about it. Most products sold today have blunt blades, which are usually only about 3 inches long.

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@TheSimonEvansX @theJeremyVine That’s very odd. I, as I’m sure everyone does, naturally assumes that anything Jeremy Vine says is well informed and completely accurate.

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@SusannaRustin @cathydevine56 It’s unfortunate that a sub editor has undermined your very accurately worded piece by referring in the headline to the EHRC ‘ruling’. As you say in the article, the EHRC hasn’t ruled on anything. It’s just explaining the practical consequences of the Supreme Court ruling.

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@DoreenMcLeod @Dennynews It’s not a misnomer. It’s meant ironically.