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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald |Gail B. Macdonald |Brian Monteith |Hamish Gobson |Dean M Thomson
TO THE BEREAVED FAMILIES, a year after the Lucy Letby conviction, time is likely to have made little difference to their grief and discussion of the case is not intended to diminish their horrendous experience. But a year has made a difference in the general discussion and it is striking. The New Yorker published a 13,000 word article reviewing the evidence at the first trial. Since then other big media, such as The Telegraph, are asking questions and raising concerns.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Brian Monteith |Hamish Gobson |Dean M Thomson |Christine Padgham
ANYONE CURIOUS about what our failed First Minister of recent memory, Humza Yousaf, is likely to experience when he leaves Britain for Islamic pastures new would be well advised to read a wonderful book recently published by Princeton University Press called A History of the Muslim World: From its origins to the dawn of modernity.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
deanmthomson.substack.com | Dean M Thomson
Susan, Andrew and myself sit down once more to drink in Scottish politics. Chatting UK General Election, the Tory plight, Faragian populism, likely challenges ahead for Labour government & GE implications for the SNP. As always, I seek to have nuanced and fun conversations with fascinating people. All guests participate assuming honest intent on each other’s part. And seeks to have sincere discussion concerning challenging topics.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Jill Stephenson |Stuart Crawford |Dean M Thomson |Alan Sked
MY VIEW of education is a very simple one. Education is empowering. Without education, or with an inadequate education, a child’s life chances are stunted. Education begins in primary school, and that is where the building blocks of education need to be established securely. Literacy and numeracy should be embedded in primary school, yet, after decades of ‘progressive’ education, it is clear that those teaching in primary schools are often not equipped to facilitate this.
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May 3, 2024 | 
deanmthomson.substack.com | Dean M Thomson
My work is entirely reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriberAlternatively why not make a one-off donation? All support is appreciatedIn this episode Susan, Andrew and I discuss the fall of Humza Yousaf, the coronation of John Swinney and Kate Forbes curious decision to sit this one outAs always, I seek to have nuanced and fun conversations with fascinating people.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
deanmthomson.substack.com | Dean M Thomson
In 2007 the Scottish National Party were ushered into power for the first time in Holyrood. The general feeling was that Scottish Labour, supported by the Liberal Democrats were in a torpor, politically lethargic and lacking policy vigour. That was then, this is now. And after 17 years the wheel of political fortunes has turned and the whispers now speak of an SNP, once heralded as the beacon for progressivism and innovation now lays prone, languishing in a quagmire of their own making.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Jill Stephenson |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich |Dean M Thomson
RECENTLY, there was an event in Dundee organised by a group called ‘Scotonomics’, whose self-proclaimed task is ‘Demystifying our economy’. To this end they enlisted a genuine expert, Professor of international economics Mark Blyth, a well-known separatist supporter who preaches secession from his fastness in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. A place of safety, one might call it.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Dean M Thomson |Hamish Gobson |Christine Padgham |Jill Stephenson
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Monday 26 February 2024IT IS BECOMING increasingly obvious why the current Scottish government wants to undermine the independence of the judiciary. They are terrified of what a genuinely free court system would do to them if the police would only present their allegations against the several delinquent leaders in a timely fashion.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
deanmthomson.substack.com | Dean M Thomson
My work is entirely reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriberAlternatively why not make a one-off donation? All support is appreciatedSCOTLAND’S NATIONAL INVESTMENT BANK is in full salesman mode as it purchased a paid feature in yesterday’s Scotsman newspaper. But beneath the public relations blitz the SNIB continues to wheeze as growing questions mount.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
deanmthomson.substack.com | Dean M Thomson
In this episode I’m joined by Harry Clynch, Features Editor @DisruptionBank which publishes “disruptive content since May 2018”. They cover stories on technology successes, banking, regulators and the bigger stories affecting our data. As always, I seek to have nuanced conversations, so with this in mind we are digging into the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB), a Scottish state-owned investment and national development set up by the Scottish National Party government.
