What has Stewart Malcolm McDonald been up to today?
Stewart Malcolm McDonald is MP for Glasgow South and a member of the Scottish National Party party.
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Sept. 7th: "Mr Jones" - Biography of Gareth Jones Book Launch https://ukrainianlondon.co.uk/sept-7th-mr-jones-biography-of-gareth-jones-book-launch/
She is just a couple of years older than my daughter. What crime did this 5 year old commit? How on earth can this be justified? A tragedy and injustice, heartbreaking and senseless. https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1555749491940233217
"What is the fault of an innocent five-year-old girl to be killed in this way?"
Five-year-old Alaa Qaddoum was killed during Israel’s initial string of attacks on Gaza.
🟠 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/y3bobr
Ministers being continually briefed about cyber incident affecting NHS systems across the UK. We are working closely on a 4 Nations basis to coordinate our resilience response, where appropriate. Plans in place to mitigate the impact but there will be some level of disruption.
Some thoughts from me in @TheScotsman today: This year’s Sunday Times Rich List opened with the observation that the top 250 entries now have more wealth than the entire 1,000-strong list five years ago. Tinkering with food & fuel support isn’t enough. https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/conservatives-worship-gdp-not-realising-that-as-bobby-kennedy-said-it-measures-everything-except-that-which-makes-life-worthwhile-stewart-mcdonald-mp-3795184#disqus-comment-section
It should be a source of deep shame to @AgnesCallamard and others at @amnesty that @OPokalchuk has resigned as head of Amnesty Ukraine. When most weren’t paying attention, Oksana and her team were putting in a shift to deliver change for Ukrainians. Few others can say the same.
Oksana Pokalchuk, Head of Amnesty International Ukraine, resigns in protest saying Amnesty "has not taken proper steps to protect the interests of the people for whom the organization works and the entire human rights movement."
Currently on holiday. I tasked Gordon with finding a place for a nice post-dinner cocktail. Here’s my view…
"As Conservatives members from across the UK debate their choice of future Prime Minister, those of us who are supportive of international aid spending can only fear the worst about its future."
✍️ I've written for the Scotsman on independence and aid.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/independent-scotland-can-and-will-lead-on-international-development-chris-law-mp-3790368
Looking for something to do today in the South of Glasgow? Come along to the #pollok Health Walk - free, friendly and a chance to get out and about for an hour in local nature.
@bmakeslinks @sairamakeslinks @LWPmakeslinks @PollokEvents @GlasgowsGG @potentialin_me @SWAMP_Glasgow
Today's Daily Record front page leads on BP announcing record profits, while the rest of the country struggles to cope with the cost of living #ScotPapers
A big moment for Ukraine. Thinking of all those Ukrainians I’ve met over the years who have worked tirelessly for this moment - none more so than my friend @maksymeristavi 👏 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
in a historic move president zelenskyy has just promised queer ukrainians to put forward a civil partnerships law with an open road to marriage equality after the martial law ends
Another rewriting of history from Truss. Many of us remember the American lobbying operation at the time. Almost every week there were US officials in parliament to get Conservative MPs to see the error of their ways. In the end it worked and the government had to eat its words.
My exchange with Liz Truss about realism, US power, and the limits of British autonomy. She was having none of it. https://twitter.com/TomMcTague/status/1554438851560603648
Liz Truss: SNP employee of the month🎊
Liz Truss says she would "just ignore" the democratically-elected leader of the second largest nation in the United Kingdom
Ignore and decry the Scottish First Minister if you like. The result is Scottish independence.
Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, whoever wins, Scotland loses, writes @StewartMcDonald https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,rishi-sunak-or-liz-truss-whoever-wins-scotland-loses
"The two contenders to be the leader of the Conservative Party are manifestly unfit to hold any sort of political power – let alone the highest office in the land...Regardless of who wins this election, Scotland loses," says @StewartMcDonald https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,rishi-sunak-or-liz-truss-whoever-wins-scotland-loses
My eyes were filling up with tears today looking out at this. I never cry but this really got to me. So proud of my wee business and how far we've came in 3 years. Thanks to my pal Graeme B for his unmeasurable support and guidance throughout 🥲🙌 @Hampdeners
Check this wee poser out 🐱 🐾
Regardless of who wins the Tory leadership contest, Scotland loses, says @StewartMcDonald https://bit.ly/3PJ33u6
Me for @HolyroodDaily: We non-members of the Conservative Party – reduced to voyeurs in our democratic process – are left with no doubt that these people will do anything, say anything, and be anything to get the keys to Number 10. https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,rishi-sunak-or-liz-truss-whoever-wins-scotland-loses
Nadine Dorries - currently a Secretary of State - is grossly unfit for public office of any sort.
Greg Hands told Sky News the social media post was "appalling", especially after the fatal stabbing of Southend MP Sir David Amess in his constituency last year
https://trib.al/Vgyd5iO
Why shouldn’t Baroness Davidson’s tennis partner be able to join her in the Lords? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/29/boris-johnsons-draft-resignation-honours-list-includes-wife/
Having read the Herald front page story now, it's actually worth a thread on quite how contrived and distorted it is, starting from the very first para.
This is a good case in point. Wanting to avoid a trade war with our allies and biggest export market *should* count in Rishi's favour, but in today through-the-looking-glass Conservative Party it is a mark of unsoundness https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/30/brandon-lewis-rishi-sunak-focused-keeping-eu-happy-northern/
Blistering. @CharlotteIvers writes another zinger you shouldn’t miss.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5653b8e2-101b-11ed-817a-2af6cb8e1676?shareToken=2df2f9a4d12d3d0ce8488b00602c235a
Toe-curling to see how quick some conservative politicians and commentators are abandoning their entirely correct scepticism of a Liz Truss premiership and swinging in behind her. As Boris says, when the herd moves, it moves. Fools all.
Sunday update in Ukraine, what seems to be happening when little is changing on the map. On the surface this week, like the last 4, has been one of an almost static warfare. Almost no change on the map in the Donbas or Kherson fronts (a village here or there, thats it).
I wish @ScotlandNT had been at #weuro2022 but @Lionesses have been brilliant. They are great ambassadors for the women’s game and I hope they win tonight. Good luck 🏴 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62339532
Olenivka POW massacre thread 🧵:
1) it wasn't a GMLRS rocket
2) it was a thermobaric weapon
3) russia staged it and did so (as usual) incompetently
Firstly: keeping POWs so close to the front violates Article 19 of the Third Geneva Convention making it a war crime.
1/n
🚨 Sharing this again. An excellent job opportunity to work on a dynamic area of policy. Details in the link below. https://twitter.com/StewartMcDonald/status/1548966717644234753
🔔 Job opportunity: Chairing the @APPGDronesMC is a huge privilege, We’re now hiring a new director, who will work with the APPG to drive our policy and engagement work. It’s a great role working in an exciting policy area. Details below 👇🏻
http://appgdronesmodernconflict.org.uk/vacancy-director/
Mario Draghi’s line on Russia has been strong. No wonder it bothers Russia. https://twitter.com/franxstrax/status/1552583733370306566
Italy's LaStampa publishes confidential docs showing that at the end of May, Putin's emissary in Italy had private interlocution with Lega's leader Salvini where he asked if the party was going to withdraw support to Draghi's cabinet
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/07/photos-five-months-war-ukraine/670964/
It’s not a happy read, but it’s always worth listening to @MarkGaleotti.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/474e7408-0f6d-11ed-b7aa-67f5549661eb?shareToken=25debfad2d90045834eac60c2eedabc2
The headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Navy in Sevastopol has been hit, the Sevastopol governor says. At least 5 reported "injured". This on Russia's much revered Navy Day.
What a grotesque error of judgment. Yet again.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-charles-accepted-1m-from-family-of-osama-bin-laden-7pd55sgn6
This is only possible because Labour, to its eternal shame, voted against an elected chamber in 2003. It chose political control over democratic principle. As Robin Cook said to Tony Blair after the vote: “All the wrong people are cheering.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/boris-johnson-lords-cronies-legitimising-bribery
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/29/boris-johnsons-draft-resignation-honours-list-includes-wife/
Someone sent me this article I wrote for the Moscow Times 3 years ago. I would love to have been wrong but the last line turned out to be right: ‘So, when the next Kremlin intervention happens in Europe, Europe mustn’t feign surprise. We were warned.’ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/26/russias-reinstatement-to-pace-is-a-grave-mistake-a66174
Spotted in Queen’s Park 🌳
Except he doesn’t really. But he knows he’s losing. So he’s prepared to pretend he’s a bigot to win over the malevolent voters he needs. But he’s selling his integrity for nothing. He’s up against the ultimate shape shifter in Truss. #LGBT https://twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1553287292785233920
It was only a few years ago that the Conservative Party put out this pro-LGBTQ+ campaign video featuring Theresa May’s speech to the @PinkNews Awards. Sunak appears to oppose almost all that May said
This is transfixing to watch. The stupidly of the answer. The insult to our intelligence. The meek acceptance of the chair. The scores of questions he could ask but doesn’t. The humiliation of what was once a serious country. https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1552890267463720962
Sunak says he wants completely open borders between Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU, and would achieve it via a Northern Ireland bill that the EU is already suing us over.
Completely bonkers unless we join the customs union and/or the S. Market
I saw a screen-grab of this story kicking around and assumed it was fake. I was wrong. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/29/suella-braverman-bans-lawyers-telling-ministers-policies-unlawful/
People are facing energy bills of almost £4000. Food prices are going up and up. Extreme weather is getting worse. Yet ‘woke nonsense’ is what a would-be Prime Minister - a former Chancellor - wants to yap on about. Totally unfit for office.
Tory leadership race: Rishi Sunak vows to stop 'woke nonsense and left-wing agitators' in latest pledge http://news.sky.com/story/tory-leadership-race-rishi-sunak-vows-to-stop-woke-nonsense-and-left-wing-agitators-in-latest-pledge-12661643
Why do we allow these war criminals freedom of movement around the UK? @trussliz has kept the Russian embassy open - nobody else. Close them down.
💬#Azov militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they’re not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death.
A married couple from #Mariupol tell how they were shelled by 🇺🇦forces from #Azovstal. #StopNaziUkraine https://youtu.be/GRdcWfpqn3E
Summer office clear out and, inexplicably, my staff have come across a candidate selection leaflet for @MrTCHarris from the year 2000.
Get involved with the fab work going on to keep Castlemilk Park and the rest of the area looking great! 🌿🌳🦆👇 https://twitter.com/cassiltoun/status/1552970740256972800
Tomo (Sat 30th)=Litter Pick & Pizza Day!
☀️Meet at 10am for as long as u want
☀️Back to Stables for 1pm for outdoor pizza
☀️Supervised children welcome,fab intro to volunteering!
☀️Feel free just to pop to Stables 1-2pm to chat about what we're up to
#lesslitterlovecastlemilk
Good morning from the Southside - here’s some Shawlands street art 🎨 ☀️
Of course he’d hate it. He’d actually have to work. https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/07/boris-johnson-head-nato
To celebrate Scotland's Year of Stories, FOKP have teamed up with The Village Storytelling Centre for our next event: storytelling for children and families in the Walled Garden!
