Journalist in Edinburgh covering politics. See @ginadavidsonlbc for work stuff. Views expressed on here still mostly under construction
Edinburgh
Joined April 2010
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Edinburgh bar Banshee Labyrinth has admitted discriminating against @PhilipsComedy by cancelling his 2025 Fringe show over social media posts.
The venue’s been ordered to pay Mr Simon’s legal costs. He says he’s been left ‘exhausted’ and ‘devastated’👇
I feel deeply upset about Jason Arday's death. Like most, I only knew of him in a vague way, then read with incredulity all that has been uncovered in past weeks. He clearly needed help. It doesn't seem to have been there. So awful.
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This footballing week has been an emotional one. My dad died two years ago but would have loved this season - I so wish he was here. Anyway I wrote a thing about him and football and love. Perhaps sharing will bring luck tomorrow.
Come on the Hearts ♥️
(no mockery please)
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Tory Is a Swear Word says Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay, in this episode of Grado Goes To Holyrood |... youtu.be/C5aW3_b9JHg?si=8QX4… via @YouTube
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Vape shops — I can share some disturbing new claims about rogue vape shops and an ‘epidemic’ of grooming.
Trading standards officers tell us
of complaints children are being handed free vapes in return for ‘sexual favours.’🧵
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Three weeks ago, the Afghan education minister announced that women are permanently banned from schools.
UN Women has not said a word.
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This is a must read. Scathing. Searing. Punches are not pulled. Brava, Helen Rumbelow.
“I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt”
thetimes.com/article/3c43b88…
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‘You have people saying that Hitler was awesome’ - this Holocaust Memorial Day Philip Rodney’s told @Rebecca_Brady_ we still need to call out prejudice today.
The first-generation Scot’s Jewish father fled Nazi Germany to Glasgow and joined the British Army in 1939.
“No female-only prisons, no promised law on misogyny, no amendment to the hate crime bill to include sex, no clear impetus to implement the Supreme Court judgment, no real support to end prostitution, no urgency to investigate rapes and sexual assaults in hospital”
How can someone as politically astute as John Swinney allow the row over trans women in the female prison estate to become an election issue, asks @holyroodmandy bit.ly/4afl0fx
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Exclusive:
🔥NHSGGC in massive u-turn over infection links to dirty water at the QEUH.
🔥After denials for SIX years, they finally admit water caused kids’ infections.
🔥Brave whistleblowers who raised concerns issued an ‘unreserved apology’ by new chief
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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The editor of the Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been charged in connection with "indecent online communications". David McCann has been suspended from his role after police searched a property in Edinburgh last month.
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NEW: Sandie Peggie’s solicitor Margaret Gribbon confirms there will be an appeal of the employment tribunal judgment in her case against NHS Fife.
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Yikes
EXCLUSIVE: Sandie Peggie NHS Fife judgment to be amended over 'bogus quote' thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/539…
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Scottish Conservative leader @RussellFindlay1 has already secured 25 signatures for his motion of no confidence in the Justice Secretary
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No flights are operating from Edinburgh Airport just now.
It's due to an IT issue with their air traffic control provider.
Travellers are being told to contact their airline for info.
@LBCNews
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Exclusive: Donald Trump congratulates Scotland on qualifying for the World Cup.
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My dream came true!!!
@ScotlandNT
