Robin Morris

Play a bit of tennis, work a bit at @booksterhq sit a bit in cafes, EV bore

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

It's time to realise that this is a tax on every single Scot who needs any kind of accommodation for any purpose, tourism or otherwise, anywhere in the country. It's an accommodation tax on all of us & how it is being set up will do a great deal of self harm. #SaveSC

[Scottish Housing News @ScotHousingNews]

Further reductions in short-term lets ‘could cost Edinburgh’s economy £57m’ https://t.co/vGtPNGko1V

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

The best journalist in America is a 56 year old construction worker from New Jersey.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Wonderful, wonderful woman. Privilege to know her. As fearless as she is funny, which is really saying something. Xx

[WattsUp @WattsUp]

“Coal-powered” EV theorists are going to need some new memes! 😄

The UK’s *last coal plant* at Ratcliffe-on-Soar closes at midnight on 30th September 2024!🎉

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Appalling racism.

[UNGRIPP @UNGRIPP]

Day 60 of a new government

Lord Kenneth Clarke has previously spoken about IPP sentences.

@Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @JamesTCobbler @DrAliceJEdwards

#ippreform

[Robin Morris @robinmorris]

@74frankfurt @sarah_e_morris @JHutton20 @Hutton38Hutton @catherinewilks

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

Greenside Tenements (Edinburgh Lands) by Philip Bethune Hutton. Oil on canvas, 106 x 79 cm. (1981)

[Robin Morris @robinmorris]

@Herring1967 Part of the problem is the threat of, and then implementation of, a licensing scheme that has lead to a collapse in the self-catering sector. Unfortunately the issue has been used as a political football in Edinburgh.

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

#SaveSC More evidence of incompetent legislation leading to unintended consequences despite repeated warnings. When are politicians going to get off their backsides & prevent the harm? @scotgov @ELCouncil @mcmillwynd @PaulMcLennan7 @elcourier https://t.co/B6x7Srh0jE

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

This is a recurring trope among infogarchs like him: all praise is regarded as valid, and any criticism is dismissed as false. It’s an insane, topsy-turvy mind-world, where proof of how right you are is actually demonstrated by showing how many think you’re wrong.

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

Yesterday the @Telegraph published a comment piece by Viscount Matt Ridley about renewable energy, littered with misleading claims.

What to make of it? 🧵

[seanasay @seanasay]

@PLACEEdinburgh You lot need to own the mess you have created. Spreading disinformation and hyperbole whilst having a seat at the table with those who know no different. Unchallenged and unaccountable. Quite the outcome for “grass roots” 🤔

[Archie Rhind-Tutt @archiert1]

Danes singing: “You’re just a shit part of Scotland.” Brutal.

[joe heenan @joeheenan]

The BBC: The far right are making gains in Europe. Should we be worried?

Also the BBC: Here's Nigel Farage for the 45th time this week explaining why refugees want to come over here & fuck your cat

[Fiona Campbell @FionaCampbell74]

@Edinburgh_CC continues to close indigenous micro businesses in favour of international hotel chains.

Brilliant.

The gratuitous defenestration of Scottish small accommodation providers.

#TourismLeakage

@ASSCnews @ScotBandBassoc

https://t.co/HJx3loZFve

[Gethin Chamberlain @newsandpics]

“Accommodation fiasco hits Edinburgh.”
Who’d have thought that shutting down all the established self catering operators to leave the field clear for big hotel chains and unlicensed apart-hotels would send prices through the roof?
#EdinburghFringe
https://t.co/drXNHxWdsC

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

Ironically #Edinburgh & #Glasgow now face an issue that was limited to developing destinations. Councils are asset stripping local businesses to benefit offshore investors. Source: https://t.co/Ud532ZAfhT #SaveSC @PaulMcLennan7 @RichardLochhead @ASSCnews @mediawummin @donturvLDR

[Fiona Campbell @FionaCampbell74]

@edfringe @JasonManford Regrettably this was always going to happen. Industry warned that this would be the outcome of #STL licensing and the Planning Control Area. #UnintendedConsequences don't happen where there is real collaboration. Therefore.... they must be #IntendedConsequences. @scotgov