Humanitarian campaigner @REVIVE_campaign . Honorary Professor University of Stirling @StirUni . Former @theSNP MP. Anti-corruption campaigner.
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Roger Mullin retweeted
One for the diary. I'm really pleased to announce a major exhibition of my work entitled, 'War Times' opening mid January 2027 @StreetLevel_ It will include work never exhibited before alongside personal diary and frontline field notes. Details here: 👇streetlevelphotoworks.org/ev…
Roger Mullin retweeted
Read the article in full here: enlighten.scot/a-call-for-ea…
Roger Mullin retweeted
The US has circulated its version of the Memo of Understanding with Iran to G7 leaders in France. It’s as bad if not worse than expected.
— The moment it’s signed (Friday) sanctions on the export of Iran oil are lifted. So the regime can start replenishing its coffers immediately.
— The US commits to doing nothing to undermine or destabilise the Iranian regime (it started the war to remove it).
— The US specifically commits to ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz but Iran does not commit specifically to returning the Strait to toll/fee free transit exactly as before the war, with no Iranian control/regulation whatsoever .
— All sanctions against Iran will be dropped should phase two negotiations go well. And America will withdraw its forces from the region.
— The US ‘undertakes’ to work with Iran and Gulf allies to create a $300 billion reconstruction package for Iran. So America will now become a partner with the tyrants of Tehran, who Trump only recently wanted to overthrow, in rebuilding their economy.
— All matters related to Iran’s nuclear capabilities are kicked into the ‘final agreement’ in 60 days time (or longer if necessary).
— No mention of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities or its financing of terrorist proxies.
And that’s just about it. When Trump insisted the war would only end with ‘unconditional surrender’ it never crossed my mind he meant his own.
Roger Mullin retweeted
I once asked Henry Kissinger after a press conference what a superpower should do to avoid looking weak. ‘Don’t start a war,’ he said. He meant Vietnam, but it seems particularly relevant now.
Roger Mullin retweeted
Maxwell’s work on electromagnetic wave propagation became one of the great milestones in natural philosophy.
In his 1865 paper, “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,” James Clerk Maxwell showed that electricity, magnetism, and light were not separate phenomena, but different expressions of the same electromagnetic field.
Freeman Dyson called the publication of Maxwell’s paper the “most important event of the nineteenth century in the history of the physical sciences.”
Feynman went even further, saying that, “From the long view of this history of mankind – seen from, say, 10,000 years from now – there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electromagnetism.”
Maxwell did not just explain light.
He unified nature in a way that later helped open the road to Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Roger Mullin retweeted
My favourite book which has inspired me throughout my life , both as a lawyer, as well as a politician-To Kill a Mockingbird: “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”. I know that my late Mum Winnie & my late father Stewart would not demur. 🏴
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The Scottish Government has already had a very positive consultation on the need for anti SLAPP legislation with a commitment from @theSNP ln its manifesto to move forward and legislate. Scotland must not be held back by failure at UK level. @JohnSwinney
#UK: The absence of anti-SLAPP measures in the King’s Speech is deeply disappointing.
Once again, the government has failed to protect British courts from abusive lawsuits that threaten free speech.
We won’t give up. The fight to #StopSLAPPs continues ⬇️
antislapp.uk/2026/05/13/king…
Roger Mullin retweeted
Whatever the outcome of this committee hearing #Robbins is coming across as a brilliant civil servant - who is entirely in control of the facts, the sensitivity, the code and the principles of his job. And he is exposing the PM as a leader who either didnt grasp the facts, ignored smart advice - or has chosen to appear outraged when he should not have been.
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I have listened to Sir Olly Robbins evidence for last hour and forty minutes and am seeing the very best of the civil service. I am left incredulous that the decision was made to fire him. Has there been a more egregious and shameful decision by a political master desperate to save his own skin?
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It's no surprise that no-one has put their name to this disgraceful piece of propaganda posing as history. Who wrote it @ScotRail ? It's perfectly possible to write Scottish history honestly and have a range of political opinions, but this is presentist claptrap.
In the waiting room at Gleneagles Station, there are a series of boards with Scottish ‘history’. Read the Bannockburn ‘myth’, @scotrail. Utter lies, totally cringeworthy.
Roger Mullin retweeted
In 1776, Common Sense- Paine’s tract whose title referenced the Scottish Common Sense philosophy of Thomas Reid- spurred on the cause of US independence. It is rammed full of warnings against tyranny & the concentration of power.
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Thank you, Roger. In these difficult and challenging times it is good to feel that we can still make progress on such matters. (And I suppose we perversely have to thank the odious Trump for supercharging SLAPP awareness in many circles!)
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Excellent news. But I can’t help wishing that David Gow was here to share it with us - he wrote many NUJ motions on this, and was a strong supporter of Roger’s campaign. 🕯️🌿
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SNP MSP Michelle Thomson has accused the Scottish Government of repeatedly re-traumatising survivors of sexual violence by dragging its feet on implementing the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. heraldscotland.com/news/2547…
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Sweet Jesus. Just. Stop. DIGGING.
NEW: NHS Fife says it is "surprised and disappointed" by information commissioner @DvdHmltn's remarks tonight. Full story: thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics…
Roger Mullin retweeted
1/ MPs debating the Royal Albert Hall Bill doesn’t sound like the stuff of nightmares. But one line in it is chilling:
"to make further provision regarding the exclusion of the Members from the hall."
It made me look further and - a few dystopian notes later - 🧵👇
Roger Mullin retweeted
Really insightful review by @RogMull of the recently published book on Neil MacCormick. A giant whose shoulders we nationalists stand on.
I won't pretent I've read the whole thing (yet) but the chapters I have read are utterly fascinating.
thenational.scot/culture/252…
