Shona Craven
Community Editor and Columnist at The National (Scotland)
Community Editor and columnist @ScotNational. Writer, pundit, policy nerd, rabbit fancier, hoarder.
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1 week ago |
thenational.scot | Shona Craven
YOU know discussions with the European Union aren’t going to plan when the UK Government tetchily declares that it is “not providing a running commentary” on those discussions. It’s hardly reassuring to be told that the UK Government will “always act in the national interest to secure the best outcomes for the UK”. What else would it be trying to do – deliberately screw us all over?
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2 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Shona Craven
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing details disturbing allegations. Photograph: Sophie Fergi/Netflix IT’S been 16 years since the US reality show Toddlers & Tiaras was first broadcast, to the grim fascination of viewers around the globe. It pulled back the curtain on child beauty pageants in which infants paraded around on stage in full make-up and few clothes.
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3 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Shona Craven
ONE of my favourite free activities in London is eavesdropping – although the ear-blasting volume at which so many people speak makes me question if it qualifies as such. On the edge of Parliament Square on Saturday, I was trying to find a phone signal when I overheard two strangers – a young English man and a middle-aged American woman – discussing the Supreme Court judgment, and the women who had fought for it. It was unfathomable, they agreed.
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1 month ago |
thenational.scot | Shona Craven
Tomorrow’s judgment should be followed by a period of calm reflection and policy problem-solving (Image: PA) IT’S been nearly eight years since I first wrote in these pages about the gradual erasure of “woman” as a sex category, and the dangerous consequences of that erasure. Now, after years of legal wrangling, we are finally to learn what the terms “woman” and “man” mean for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.
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1 month ago |
thenational.scot | Shona Craven
IT must have been at least 15 years ago when I first encountered a wannabe “pick-up artist”. The setting was a bar in Glasgow, and the context was the aftermath of a speed-dating night my friends had taken part in. Online dating sites existed, but were viewed with healthy suspicion. I doubt anyone present owned a smartphone. Many of the speed-daters had hung around afterwards, including a chap at our table who engaged in a lively conversation with one of the women.
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RT @MMyrick29: Good Saturday from @SkyNews and https://t.co/toNygVHO7g! Now: @shonacraven and @charlotteEaLMoS Joins #WeekendBreakfast with…
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lots of guys have a hard time understanding that many women get dressed and put on make-up for themselves or their friends. this should be obvious bc many straight men dress badly on purpose to signal to male friends that they're heterosexual. https://t.co/asmkMarpSM
RT @ScotNational: A lack of regulation does not, in itself, lead to children appearing on social media in their underwear, writes @shonacra…
