Kenny Stewart
🗒️ Public affairs & comms in mental health
👍 Keen on sport, rights, & DIY punk rock (see @tiob.diy)
⬅️ Previously EHRC, Open University, Glasgow 2014 & more
🐶 Mostly pics of my dog
🚹 He/him
📍 Glasgow, Scotland.
I haven’t age-verified so I won’t see your DM.
- Remember Farage’s response when Obama said the mildest thing about Brexit?
- EXC: US State dept is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in UK/ Europe to amplify Washington’s policy stances and challenge perceived threats to free speech W/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @oilsheppard.bsky.social & Amy McKinnon as.ft.com/r/98452b33-5...
- Reposted by Kenny StewartChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
- Based on this match I am confident Scotland can beat France thanks to our famously robust second halves.
- What on earth was that French player doing. That was almost the worst try in Six Nations history.
- This isn’t a classic Irish team but I think France might be quite good this year.
- Oh. Oh my.
- 🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
- Forward pass.
- Just spent ages trying to get the bastarding STV player app to cast to watch the rugby then eventually remembered I could… watch telly.
- Keen on a new hoody in these Baltic times and considering something from the legendary Japanese screamo/post-rock band Envy and, lads, I cannot wear this. I cannot, for the people will think I am some kind of neo-Nazi.
- I don’t pay nearly as much attention to Westminster as I used to (hello, working in a wholly devolved policy area) but I am still a professional politics person and I had literally never heard of Mr Carns until this morning. I’m sure that augurs well for public knowledge.
- Reposted by Kenny StewartIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Fair play to Toony, that is much closer to being the correct team than I ever imagined him being capable of selecting.
- How does making people more likely to miss appointments, thus wasting NHS resources and making worse (and therefore more expensive) health outcomes more likely in the longer term, help anyone?
- 0805 and the streetlights just went off. 🥳
- Democracy Dies in Darkness.
- ITV/STV are going to be showing in-game ads during the Six Nations. 🤮
- Given that we’re obviously going to win the Six Nations scheduling your party conference on the last day of the tournament feels profoundly anti-Scottish.
- Apropos of nothing I’m once again wondering if awarding people lifelong places in our legislature largely on the basis of patronage without an effective means of removing them is necessarily an excellent idea.
- A parliamentary committee has just - as in, literally ten minutes ago - opened a consultation on a piece of secondary legislation with a submission deadline of next Monday. One week. What kind of response is possible in that sort of timescale? (Other than, are you kidding?)
- Reposted by Kenny StewartBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Kenny StewartThis is a truly timeless piece... harpers.org/archive/1941...
- King Street, Glasgow.
- One of those days when you have to assume you’re on a new list or starter pack because otherwise where are all these follows coming from.
- Land dolphin bouncing through the bracken.
- With apologies to anyone in possession of paper or card in my vicinity in the near future.
