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Iain Macwhirter

@iainmacwhirter

Columnist. Times, Spectator Author: "Disunited Kingdom" -"Still best book on independence vote". Ex BBC TV/ radio presenter. Former Rector Edinburgh University.

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🇬🇧Humza Yousaf's resignation is not just the end for him, but also for 'any hopes of Scottish independence happening in the lifetime of most SNP members', said Iain Macwhirter.

Read more about what comes next for devolution: theweek.com/politics/humza…

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'The irony is that Yousaf has had to fall on his sword for doing the right thing for once: getting rid of the Greens.'

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If, as expected, Humza Yousaf resigns today as First Minister of Scotland, it will be the beginning of the end not just for him, but for any hopes of Scottish independence

Iain MacWhirter

spectator.co.uk/article/the-fi…

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Yousaf may be doomed but he was right to ditch the Greens. Their leader denied the scientific validity of the Cass Review. LGBT Greens accused Cass of “social murder”. Defended puberty blockers. Greens were the ‘wrong side of history’. My Times column:
thetimes.co.uk/article/yousaf…

Yousaf may be doomed but he was right to ditch the Greens. Their leader denied the scientific validity of the Cass Review. LGBT Greens accused Cass of “social murder”. Defended puberty blockers. Greens were the ‘wrong side of history’. My Times column: thetimes.co.uk/article/yousaf…
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Suspended because of her belief that people cannot change sex. What kind of madness… thetimes.co.uk/article/social…

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'Here is a figure of a man screaming in fear.' Amazing and interesting footage of Kenneth Clark and John Berger talking about Picasso's Guernica - Clarke doesn't think it could be a 'popular' painting, & they go on to discuss what could. Abt. 12 mins in: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…

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Can cows flip the climate narrative? Research shows grazing ruminant animals on land benefits the environment and improves carbon cycling. 'The most striking finding is the discovery that beef production can be carbon negative. Another striking finding is that in some cases, the…

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Parents have been asked “Do you want a happy little girl or a dead little boy?”
Psychiatrist David Bell on puberty blockers and Cass. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Tom “The Doctor” Baker on the health Soho regime that helped him live to his nineties. (Don’t try this at home)

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'The Greens actually supported last week’s scrapping of the Scottish government’s interim Net Zero emissions targets; yet they clearly could not accept Cass. This seems to have been the final straw on both sides.'

✍️ Iain Macwhirter spectator.co.uk/article/is-thi…

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